Four hundred BUPA staff take to the phones for Sport Relief

Four hundred BUPA employees will be donning headsets and costumes to help raise money for Sport Relief,

the BBC and Comic Relief's sport fundraising initiative, taking place between Friday 14th and Sunday 16th March.

While the nation tunes in to watch Sport Relief's televised entertainment show on Friday, BUPA's enthusiastic volunteers will be answering calls from viewers and taking their pledges, to raise funds for vulnerable people in the UK and the world's poorest countries.

All the while they will be wearing an array of costumes to help add to the fun of the evening.

BUPA's staff will man some 80 donation lines while the show airs between 7pm and 1.30am.

This huge staff challenge involves two hundred employees from BUPA's Salford Quays offices and a further two hundred from its Staines site.

Nicole Humphreys, BUPA's community affairs manager, said: "We've had a phenomenal response from our employees wanting be involved in manning the phones for Sport Relief.

"We are proud to be supporting an initiative that harnesses the power of sport to change people's lives, both through fundraising and through encouraging people to get active and lead healthy lives.

"To help keep our volunteers entertained as they man the phones into the early hours of Saturday morning, there will be everything from a magician to a masseuse on site to make the event as fun and rewarding as possible".

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