ByteNight is here again!

On Friday, 2nd October, ByteNight comes round again. This is the second year I've done ByteNight and the second time that I've been in a team that's successfully raised £5k. Woohoo & Phew!!

Actually this year, raising the money was tougher than ever, mostly due to the economic climate and people being less willing to part with their cash. Regardless, we got lucky - we had a load of redundant IT kit when we moved out of an office earlier this year and selling it to people in the Technology team gave us a real boost towards our target.

Obviously I'd be delighted if we raised more money, so if you'd like to donate, please go to our Justgiving website - click on the Donate button on the Justgiving widget on the right hand side of this blog.

Here's hoping that it'll be dry, last year it was dry, but very, very cold. However, that's preferable to rain!

£5k enables Action for Children to achieve a lot, and even in this economic climate I understand that ByteNight is on track to beat previous records with the regional events being significantly larger than last year. Last year's ByteNight raised more than £450k altogether and with very low overheads the vast majority of money goes straight to Action for Children initiatives.

Anyway, please keep fingers crossed for decent weather!!