From
MusicWeek.com:
Viacom employees take part in global community service day
UK Viacom International Media Networks employees have given back to the local community today (Friday, May 25) as part of an annual global Viacom initiative to support local communities.
This year, the company's UK-based employees are spending the day transforming three London Play adventure playgrounds across the city, volunteering at The Passage homeless shelter and Camden charity Time Bank, and working with Media Trust to offer media workshops and master-classes to disengaged young people.
Nickelodeon toys and books have also be donated to Great Ormond Street and clothing banks have been set up in each London office for the charity Traid.
Nearly 5,000 Viacom employees volunteered on “Viacommunity Day” in 2011 to support local schools, shelters, hospitals, foundations, workshops and public parks across the US, Africa, Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, China, Colombia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Canada, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
Georgia Arnold, SVP, Social Responsibility, Viacom International Media Networks, said: “We are always delighted by the spirit and enthusiasm demonstrated by the number of UK employees who freely volunteer their time, year after year, to take part in such a special day! The success of the Viacom event continues to go from strength to strength, and marks our ongoing commitment to both our global and local community. To be part of such a fantastic global initiative – working alongside our Viacom colleagues around the world – is really what ‘community spirit’ is all about. Everyone who has participated today, and in recent weeks, should feel very proud of their achievements”.
Also, Tweeted (posted) by Tina McCann, the Managing Director of Nickelodeon UK and Ireland, on
her official Twitter profile page (
@NickMDTMc):
Happy Viacommunity Day! What a beautiful day to help your local community...
Also, from
Media Week:
This week, [...] does lunch, sings karaoke with Initiative and The Mirror, does the Jubilee with CBS Outdoor and gets down and dirty with Viacom and MTV.
Mucky MTV
[...] hears that that bunch at MTV get up to quite a few dirty things, the mucky bunch, if their work on their Viacommunity Day is anything to go by.
Each year the little poppets at the channel's parent company Viacom support local communities where Viacom has operations.
This year, Viacom's UK-based team from MTV, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon spent Friday (25 May) transforming three London Play adventure playgrounds across the city, volunteering at The Passage homeless shelter and Camden charity Time Bank, and working with Media Trust to offer media workshops and master-classes to disengaged young people.
Nickelodeon consumer products were also donated to Great Ormond Street and clothing banks have been set up in each London office for the charity Traid. Well done darlings, [...] always like guys (and girls) that like to put on the rubber (wellies), work up a sweat and get stuck in.
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