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It's Wednesday the 16th of December and 9 days to go until the big day and I am still Christmas shopping. So far I've managed to do all of it over the internet, even the wrapping paper. I know I may have to resort to the high street at some point but it's nice to do these things electronically if you can.

With that thought in mind we have created an excel version of our expense form to take away the more repetitive aspects of expense submissions. The rest of our expenses policy doesn't change, we do still need original receipts and a signed hardcopy of your form, this is just here to stop you having to fill in the same details over and over. We have a few ideas in the works that should make expenses much easier to submit, but that's in the distant future. I will keep you updated as I get news.

A while back I mentioned that this year instead of sending out Christmas Cards we were going to donate money to charity, and asked you guys for suggestions of which charities you would like us to support. We settled on Save the Children, Cancer Research, Help the Aged, and the Construction Industry charity "The Lighthouse Benevolent Fund".

The last two years have not been great for charities, as in many cases they have been the first to suffer in the recession, so I hope this year other people have followed suit and made a donation instead of mailing.

I've been asked to mention holiday pay again because we are getting a few calls from people unsure of if their agency will be open to make payments over the Christmas period. I would encourage you to take a look at their opening hours or better yet payroll schedules, if there is any ambiguity remember that if you have holiday pay accrued we can pay it out to you as long as we know in advance.

Hugo
@GabemUmbrella
16/12/2009