Wisdom Trust News - 13-05-2008
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Become a Wisdom Trust researcher in 2008.
Here at The Wisdom Trust we're looking to expand our resource libraries - facts, information, eco-tips and health-tips - and we're looking for some new people to help us with our research in 2008.
Our goal is to create a resource library over over 5,000 eco-tips and health-tips, together with 10,000 facts and statistics about global issues. These will form the foundation for our education programs in the future.
Being a Wisdom Trust researcher is not difficult. You work only when you can, usually on your own computer at home or in the office, using our featured search engines to seek out new information for adding to our library. And when you've found something, you simply email it to us for adding to our database.
We're also looking for researchers to help us manage our huge panel of advertisers. These need to be checked on a regular basis to ensure that their link is still active and up-to-date.
So, if you feel you'd like to get more involved and become one of our online researchers, simply click here to tell us what you could do.
Thanks for all your support in the past and we hope you'll continue to play your part in our worldwide campaign and help us make a difference in 2008.
The Wisdom Trust Team.
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The Wisdom Trust - Find Us On Bebo.
The Wisdom Trust now has its own profile on the social networking website, Bebo. If you're a user of Bebo, make sure you add us as one of your friends and stay more in touch with all that's new with The Wisdom Trust. Our ID on Bebo is Wisdom-Trust
If you're not already a Bebo user, why not sign-up free of charge at www.bebo.com
And don't forget, we've also got profiles on the other two main social networking websites, Myspace and Facebook
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Latest Charities To Join The Wisdom Trust.
Several new charities and good causes have joined The Wisdom Trust's list of supported organisations over recent weeks and months. These include Princess Alice Hospice, Radio Redhill and World Medical Fund.
You can find all these organisations listed on The Wisdom Trust website and you'll be able to link from there to their websites for more information about their aims, recent successes and current campaigns.
If you know of a charity or good cause which is not yet on our list, why not nominate them to be added so that we can help promote their issues and support their work as well.
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Free Carbon Offsetting - Now Available.
The Wisdom Trust has now launched a series of carbon calculators on our website, in co-operation with The Carbon Neutral Company. Now all our members will be able to find out how many kilograms of carbon they're responsible for (from all sources - gas or elecricity at home, vehicles, transport and travel).
Having done that, you'll be able to look at a range of ways to offset those emissions - without any cost or inconvenience to you, as you'd expect of any project within The Wisdom Trust program.
Quite simply, you create your own personal Wisdom 'charity fund' by earning Fundraising Credits (FC's) through the online education programs, or by shopping online through The Wisdom Trust shopping mall, and even by introducing new members to The Wisdom Trust among your own friends and family.
Then you can use the value of this personal fund, either to make donations to one of our listed charities and good causes, or to set aside some of it to offset some (or all) your carbon emissions.
Why not find out how much carbon you're creating? Click here to open the page with our three carbon calculators.
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The Wisdom Trust on Myspace - Join Our Group.
The Wisdom Trust now has its own position within the Myspace online social network, and you can check out our entry at:- www.myspace.com/wisdomtrust.
Take a look at our page and add us as one of your 'friends'. Leave an online message, if you wish, or contact us by email in the normal way and tell us what you think. We hope to keep the blog section up-to-date with information about new charities, donations, members' activities and anything else to do with The Wisdom Trust. You'll also be able to join our special interest group on Myspace, as well. You can find details of our Myspace group by clicking here.
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The Wisdom Trust On Facebook - Check Us Out.
The Wisdom Trust has a profile on the Facebook social networking website and it has also launched its own group on Facebook too. If you're an existing Facebook user then click here to join the group and stay in touch with our regular bulletins. You'll also be able to network with other members of the group, make new friends and find out what other people think about the big global issues - poverty, environment and health. If you're not yet a Facebook user, why not sign up and get involved.
We've also added The Wisdom Trust to Facebook's directory of 'causes' and you can join that too by clicking here.
These two facilities simply offer further ways for everyone to stay in touch with all that's going on at The Wisdom Trust. If you've not yet signed up on our main Facebook profile, you can click here to do so. And if you are a Facebook member, make sure you tell all your friends there about The Wisdom Trust.
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Wisdom Workshops.
The next two workshops will take place on Thursday May 22nd and Wednesday May 28th. Both workshops will start at 7pm and last approximately two hours. Light refreshments will be provided and for those travelling some distance, overnight accommodation can be provided (subject to availability).
Come and find out how you can use your spare time, mostly on your own computer at home or in the office, to help support all our listed charities and good causes, and to help us create an even wider awareness about the important issues facing the future of our planet - poverty, environment and health. Even just 5 minutes a day can really have an impact on so many of the issues we're involved with. Come along to one of the workshops and we'll show you how.
Click here to book your place at one of these two events.
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Charity Stories & Articles Needed For Wisdom Trust Newsletter.
Our new weekly newsletter is now up and running and we'd now like to invite any of our listed charities and good causes to submit short stories or articles which promote their work and current issues or campaigns. These should be under any of the three main headings - Poverty, Environment and Health. We'll select one story from each of the three headings to feature in each week's issue of the newsletter, with a link to the charity's Website for those who wish to get further information.
Send your articles by email to newsletter@wisdomtrust.org and remember to include the name of the organisation submitting the article together with a website address (or a particular website page) to where people can be redirected for more information.
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Shopping Stories.
Jenny needed to book some train tickets for her and her colleagues, who were attending a conference, and being a friend of The Wisdom Trust, she'd already checked out the various travel websites on The Wisdom Trust shopping mall and found that Thetrainline offered the best value for the dates and times she required. So she linked to Thetrainline's website through The Wisdom Trust shopping mall and made her booking.
As a result of Jenny's purchase, The Wisdom Trust earned £1.92, automatically and at at no extra cost or inconvenience to her. That's enough to feed nineteen hungry children in Africa, or even enough to provide three bamboo trees in China to give years of nourishment to endangered panda bears. It would also be enough to replant almost two square metres of rainforest, or provide two bags of potato seed to feed a few families in the developing world for many months - and all thanks to Jenny's train tickets for the conference. Isn't that brilliant?
Remember to use The Wisdom Trust for all your online shopping. And if the shop you want isn't listed, let us know and we'll try to get them on board in the near future. And don't forget to use our price comparison engines to check out the best prices of anything you want to buy.
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Want To Get More Involved?
We're currently on the look out for any of our members who'd like to get more involved in the work of The Wisdom Trust, either from their own computer or by participating in some of our outside events (such as the various events listed above, or at our exhibition and roadshow events). So if you're keen to help us in any of a number of ways, use the link below to get in touch.
For example, we need to find a team of people to help with our online research into the three main issues of poverty, environment and health, and to look out for new eco-tips and health-tips for our tips libraries. We also need people to assist with our various marketing projects, in the regular production of our newsletter and in the development of our education programs, including anyone with web design skills or expertise in graphic design.
We're looking for a team of people to focus on our fundraising programs, as well as a few people who could spend some time helping us investigate and apply for the numerous grants, bursaries and other donations available every year from the various grant-making trusts and foundations all around the UK, such as The National Lottery, for example. And, of course, we'd like to have a team of members who help out in the organisation and management of our exhibitions, roadshows and other outside events.
So, if you feel you'd like to get more involved, simply click here to tell us what you could do to help us.
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The Wisdom Trust In Teacher's Post.
The Wisdom Trust has featured twice in recent issues of Teacher's Post, a Royal Mail Group publication, which is distributed three times each year to 37,000 schools across The United Kingdom. We also hope to feature in the next issue, due for publication in early June.
YOu can find the two articles about The Wisdom Trust by viewing the online version of Teacher's Post at:-
June 2007
Sept 2007
The Royal Mail Group Education department was recognised in 2007 as delivering a long term positive impact on communities at the annual BITC Awards for Excellence. With this in mind, The Wisdom Trust could not find a better partner in our campaign to engage with schools and their students to get as many of them as possible involved in our various education programs, as well as fundraising for the schools themselves.
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Latest Donations To Charities From The Wisdom Trust.
Several donations have been made recently to some of The Wisdom Trust's listed charities and good causes.
These include £19.77 to Revival Radio, £10.63 to Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice, £10.67 to Frimley Park Hospital, £10.37 to Watts Gallery, £136.47 to Younger Generation Theatre Group and £10.88 to 15th St Pancras Scout Group.
These donations bring the total fund distributed to charities over the last two years to £5,121.28. A total of 46 different charities and good causes have so far been in receipt of donations from The Wisdom Trust.
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Sainsburys Donate £700 to The Wisdom Trust.
Leading UK supermarket chain Sainsburys have kindly donated £700 to The Wisdom Trust, through their popular Local Heroes scheme.
Sainsburys recognises that many members of staff contribiute their time to support local charitable organisations outside of work and to celebrate and support these activities, the Local Heroes scheme makes dontions towards staff members' chosen good causes.
The scheme is proving extremely popular and over £750,000 has so far been donated to charities and other good causes. This is second time, The Wisdom Trust has been in receipt of a donation through the Local Heroes scheme.
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Royal Bank of Scotland Gives £250 to The Wisdom Trust.
Leading UK bank The Royal Bank of Scotland have kindly donated £250 to The Wisdom Trust, through their Community Cashback Awards scheme.
Royal Bank of Scotland recognises that many members of staff contribiute their time to support local charitable organisations outside of work and the bank is delighted to help those community groups, schools and charities where their staff are already making an important contribution in their own time.
The scheme is proving extremely popular and a substantial sum has so far been donated to charities and other good causes. This is second time, The Wisdom Trust has been in receipt of a donation through the RBS Community Cashback Awards scheme.
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New Website Almost Ready To Launch.
The Wisdom Trust will shortly launch a newly-enhanced website, packed with many new features.
We expect the new website to go live sometime over the next week or two and the new features will include three new education programs where members will be able to earn Fundraising Credits. One of these will be an IQ challenge, where members will be able to answer questions of logic, numeracy, vocabulary or trivia and earn 1 FC for each question they get right.
But the most important new feature will be that non-members will also be able to participate in some of the programs and earn special credits, called Gift Credits, which they'll be able to donate to any of the charities and good causes on our list.
We'll also be introducing our new 'Journey To Wisdom' feature, where members and non-members alike will be able to focus on particular topics, such a recycling, saving energy in the home, herbal remedies, greener driving and healthy eating.
Thanks for your support - and once the new website is live, let us know what you think by emailing us your comments and suggestions.
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Wisdom Trust Summer Events - Join In The Fun.
The Wisdom Trust will launch its Summer events program at the end of May. As last year, we will be arranging to attend up to dozen outside events, environmental fairs and charity open days.
We're on the look out right now for a team of volunteers (no experience necessary) to help us organise and run all our events, starting with three events over the next three weeks. Thee are:- Kingston Green Fair (Mon 26th May, in Kingston), then Camden Green Fair (Sun Jun 1st, in Regents Park) and London Wildcare Open Day (Sat Jun 7th, in Beddingon south London). These three events will allow us to connect with almost 50,000 people, to engage with them about our cause and send them home happy, ready to sign-up (free of charge) on our website so they can play they part too.
Volunteers will need to learn and understand our very simple message ("Do a little - Help a lot") and talk to people who visit out stand about how they can get involved. It's fun, it's worthwhile, you'll be part of a great team of like-minded people, and you'll be helping to make a real difference in the world.
So, if you feel you'd like to get more involved and become part of our events team, simply click here to tell us what you could do to help us.
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The Wisdom Trust is committed to playing its part in improving our environment, as well as helping to relieve poverty and improve world health, and within a few clicks, you too can be part of our work. We offer a unique experience, allowing people of all ages and backgrounds to engage with charities worldwide, and enabling them to learn or contribute to our work whenever they can. We work hard to make this as easy as possible; our education and fundraising programmes run at no cost to our members and both are linked to our loyalty credits scheme, so anything our members do to help the global community also benefits themselves!
By working together, we can make a difference. We can improve our world for the benefit of all. Join us today and be part of our future. With The Wisdom Trust, even doing just a little can still help a lot.
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Inspirational Quote For Wisdom
Tact is the knack of making a
point without making an enemy.
Isaac Newton
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