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Issue No: 115
February
2018
External Edition
Published for the Funders and Supporters of the West Sussex Mediation Service.
Inside this issue:
It’s a Knockout 1
High Tea 2
Referral 3
Secure emails 4
GDB Raffle 5
West Sussex Mediation Service
External Newsletter
Great opportunity for teambuilding/bonding whilst supporting a
host of great local charities, including WSMS. Spectators
welcome. Watch out for the associated Raffle (Tickets on sale
shortly). The draw will be at the above event. Prizes — Page 5.
It’s a Knockout — is back!
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Because WSMS use BT MyDonate as our fundraising platform of choice, our charity
has secured a unique opportunity for a Corporate (or someone with deep pockets) to
experience ‘High’ Tea at the BT Tower in London, for 6 guests.
The BT Tower is no longer open to the general public. Lucky charities, who use
MyDonate as their donations platform, can bid for this great experience. It acts as a
charity fundraiser. If you would like to seriously impress some of your friends/family
or corporate clients and find out more about the donation level required, do get in
touch with Nick, in the office.
Our slot is: Friday 15th June 2018 between 12:00 – 14:30 (we have requested a fine
weather day with good visibility!)
The last time the tower was fully opened its door to the public Margaret Thatcher was
Prime Minister, the world was mourning the shooting of John Lennon, leg warmers
were de rigeur and a pint of beer was just 35p. Unfortunately security concerns put
the Kibosh on it.
Construction on the tower was completed on July 15, 1964, and the £9 million
building was originally named the Post Office Tower. The main structure is 177
metres (581 ft) high, with a further section of aerial rigging bringing the total height
to 191 metres (627 ft). When it was built it became the tallest building in London and
remained so until 1980, when it in turn was overtaken by the NatWest Tower. It is
even Grade 2 listed now.
Entry to the building is by two high-speed lifts which travel at 7 metres per second
(15.7 mph), reaching the top of the building in under 30 seconds. An Act of
Parliament was passed to vary fire regulations, allowing the building to be evacuated
by using the lifts – unlike other buildings of the time. There is an interesting article in
Wikipedia giving much more information on the tower and its uses:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BT_Tower
High Tea
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Referrals
In an effort to boost Community referrals, we have produced the poster below. If you
know any relevant locations where these can be posted, do let the office know.
We have seen the number of agency referrals decrease over time and would like to
reverse that trend.
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We have just signed up to a free email encryption service
called Protonmail.
This is their weblink: https://protonmail.com
From now on, in order to be fully compliant with the new
General Data Protection Regulation, which becomes law in
May 2018, any email sent to our mediators, which contains
any personal data on clients, will be encrypted.
The email will appears as originating from [email protected] Please can you
ensure that this is not recognised as spam/junk in your email accounts., if any head
you way.
ProtonMail is a free, open-source, encrypted email provider, based in Switzerland. It
works from any computer through their website and also via the Android and iOS
mobile apps.
The most important feature when talking about any encrypted email service is
whether or not other people can get a hold of your messages, and the answer is a
solid no when it comes to ProtonMail, since it features end-to-end encryption.
Nobody will be able to decrypt our encrypted ProtonMail messages without our
unique password — not the employees at ProtonMail, their ISP, our ISP, or even the
government (allegedly!).
In fact, ProtonMail is so secure that it can't recover emails if we were to forget our
password. The decryption happens when you log on, so they don't have access to a
means of decrypting emails without our password or a recovery account on file.
Another aspect of ProtonMail that's important to state is that the service doesn't keep
any of our IP address information. A no-log email service like ProtonMail means that
emails cannot be traced back to us.
We are in the process of contacting referral agencies to check what processes they
have in place to safely transmit personal information on potential clients to WSMS.
Secure Emails
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GDB Charity Challenge Raffle — 2018
We can’t quite match the top end prizes of the 2017 Gdb Charity Challenge Raffle —
i.e. Flight Tickets to Dubai and Boston. However ,we do have some great prizes again
this year and the price of a ticket drops from £10 to £5 each.
Our thanks go to all the local businesses who have sponsored the various prizes.
Here is the list:
Canon SX620 HS PowerShot from Canon UK
Half day Driving Experience at Porsche Experience Centre, Silverstone
Full Afternoon Tea for two at South Lodge Hotel, Lower Beeding
Nyetimber ‘flight’ for two at British Airways i360, Brighton
Bed & Breakfast for two at Hilton Hotel London Gatwick
Family Footgolf at Gatwick Footgolf, Burstow
Champagne Afternoon Tea for two at Brighton Harbour Hotel
Hospitality tickets for four at Crawley Town Football Club
Bed & Breakfast for two at Hartsfield Manor
Dinner for two at the Holiday Inn, Gatwick Airport
Sunday Lunch for two at The Old Ship Hotel, Brighton
Family ticket at the Hawth Theatre, Crawley - 2018/19 pantomime
(Aladdin)
If you attend the event at the South of England Showground on 10th May either as a
participant or spectator (FREE ENTRY), you will have the opportunity to buy tickets for
an ‘On the Day’ raffle. One of the prizes will be a meal for 4 at Oblix in the Shard,
menu designed by the Chef with wines paired by the Sommelier (worth £200) !
These are the beneficiary charities, alongside WSMS — St Catherine’s Hospice,
Dame Vera Lynn Trust, Cancer Research, Golden Lions Children’s Trust, Rocking-
horse, NSPCC, Kent, Surrey, Sussex Air Ambulance, Young Epilepsy, SASH, Olive Tree
Cancer Support, Young Enterprise and the Sussex Wildlife Trust.
Get in touch with Nick (01403 258900 or [email protected]) to buy your ticket (s) or
for offers to sell books of tickets. 200 books of 10 tickets will be on sale. Hopefully
we will get to sell them all to help boost the coffers of the various great causes.
