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Howto write a letter(s) to ask for, Spnsorship, donations and/or other Contributions for raising fund for LGBT Pride

ScotlandPRIDE — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 01:09:31 GMT

I am looking for someone o help me write a letter inviting companies to sponsor, donate or generate some other type of involvement that couldl help raise funds for our Aberdeen Pride event for 2009 in August. The idea of Pride is to make aware of issues that relate to individual mainly in the gay community hoever not aways;

Such as ;

Sexual health awareness
homphobia and discrimination in all areas of enviroment
Sense of Community of one and other
Promoting intergration amoungst the wider community
raise awareness of all issues that concearn different individuals within the LGBT communtiy
Raise money for Terrance Higgins Trust

The event is hopefully a whole week the will show Parade,stalls, markets, information sites and entertianment; comedy, music, live bands, stand - up, inovated speachs etc, that will keep the supporters and others that are interested in the topic that we hope to bring to the surface.

There is an estatmated value to cover the cost of Â£30,000 (this could be more) that will cover all expenses for the day event and the other long week events, covering audio, visual, security, isurance, Stage & PA hire, Marquee Hire, Marketing and Publicity, Artist Fees, Toilet Hire, Generator Hire, Ambulance and other stationary applications

Please help, something I do not how to put in an attract way that can beneit the companies in sales and publicity; ideas of companies would range from;

Super-stores
Clothing retialers
Traveling Agents
Jewllers
Banks
Car Dealers
Loan Companies
Chain Pubs
Radio
Hotels
Gyms
Restaurants/ food store
Cinema
Haridressers and beauty Salons
Diageo
Belhavean etc.

All help would be obliged.

Thanx Scotland

Please Help me correct and make the complete sentence of MYWORDS in appraisal

dhan_csn — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:20:06 GMT

Looking Back

What achievement during the past year are you most proud of?

MY Words

Proactively work in monitoring team to providing that maximum level of Availability of global IT resource (Servers & Network Link).

User administration tasks and cases are completed in effectively with in the period of SLA.

In what way does cooperation within your department and with other departments affect your handling of tasks?

Cooperation within the Department

MY Words

Maintaining good working relationships with all members in my department as well as other department would helping to rendering good support to

End users.

On a scale from 1-5 where 1 being the extremely bad and 5 being the extremely good, how is the cooperation

Within department

1 2 3 4 5

Reason

MY Words

Cooperation within the department is good.

What will be your contribution to the cooperation within the department in the coming year?

MY Words

Organizing frequent meeting & training for our team members to have a better knowledge sharing within us.

How can your manager and colleagues contribute to improved cooperation in the coming year?

MY Words

Conducting discussions and organizing training regularly to improve the quality and standard of the IT support.

Performance Appraisal

The performance appraisal for the current year:

1. Appraisal of result agreed on at last review

AA : Above Anticipated Performance

E : Excellent Performance

A : Anticipated Performance

NI : Needs Improved Performance

The tasks for which the employee holds Responsibility

Responsiblities Unit of Measurement

1 Resolution based on knowledge base Timeliness E AA A NI

2 Escalation to respective teams Timeliness E AA A NI

3 Follow up and closure Timeliness E AA A NI

4 Timely completion of tasks Timeliness E AA A NI

Reasons for the above rating

MY Words

Effectively handling user administration task, access rights and mail related cases

Understanding of technical problem and timely escalations to the appropriate team members

Resolving the issue/incident by follow up with respective team

Effectively working on more tasks & cases,monitoring BMC & orion,back up jobs and virus alerts

Future

This section deals with the employee's tasks in the coming year and competency development. It is divided into five subsections:

1. Defining tasks and results

2. Competencies necessary to achieve the tasks and result defined above

3. Specific competency profile relevant to the employee

4. Competency development plan

5. Views on future career

1. Defining tasks and results

Responsibility Unit of Measurement

Enter the most important tasks for which the employee holds responsiblity

Resolution based on knowledge base Timeliness

Escalation to respective teams Timeliness

Follow up and closure Timeliness

Timely completion of tasks Timeliness

Reasons

MY Words

Having Knowledge of BMC and Orion,AD administration

Timely escalating the technical problem with Global team members

Timely Completion for AD task & cases

Functional Competencies

2. Specific competency portfolio for : Dhandapani

Technical Knowledge E AA A NI

Technical Solution Development E AA A NI

Technical Support E AA A NI

Behavioural Competencies

Learning Ability E AA A NI

Team Work E AA A NI

Quality Focus E AA A NI

Decision Making and Problem Solving E AA A NI

Communication E AA A NI

Specific competency

3. Competency development plan

Prioritise the competencies to be improved

Means of achieving

competency improvement

Timetable Responsible Follow up

MY Words

Technical Knowledge ADS & Exchange 01 Sep 2009 Appraiser Self

Achievement Orientation Training 05 Oct 2009 HR Self

Require to attend technical training to update technical skills in order to work with more incidents task and cases.

Remarks

Continue in Present Job

Remarks

Deeper Specialisation in Present job

New field of work in present department

New Department

Make your preferences for future career path

4. Views on future career

MY Words

I Would like to take responsiblities for Exchange

Re: I am looking forward to (meet / meeting)? you

Anonymous — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:22:31 GMT

In British English, if you were going to use this phrase in a formal letter, you should write 'I look forward to meeting you' , this and similar phrases are often used to close letters.
Informally, it would be ok to use 'I am looking forward to meeting you', but in the UK we would probably use ' I'm ' rather than ' I am ', so it would be 'I'm looking forward to meeting you'

Re: Kind Regards or Kind regards or kind regards...?

Anonymous — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:14:30 GMT

Written Formula for Ending a Letter (British English)

Informal, personal (to close friends and family):

With love
Best wishes

Semi-formal / informal (emails, notes, business memos):

Kind regards
Best regards
Regards

Formal letters:

Yours sincerely
- Use when you know the addressee by name (Dear John / Dear Mr Smith). You can only be sincere with someone you know.
Yours faithfully
- Use when you don't know the persons name (Dear Sir or Madam).

Case / Capitalisation

Sentence case applies. Only capitalise the first letter of a sentence (with the exception of proper nouns and special conventions).

Punctuation

Open punctuation and mixed punctuation are common in the UK. If you begin the letter with "Dear Jane," (or "Dear Jane:" in American English), then the closing should be punctuated with a comma (e.g. "Kind regards, John"). These commas (or colon and comma in American English) would be omitted when writing a letter in open punctuation (as the line breaks make such punctuation redundant).

Re: Why is "Can you show me the way how you did it?" incorrect?

Tanit — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 20:42:55 GMT

Yoong Liat wrote:
Hi Tanit

In Singapore, students are taught to use 'whom'. For example, "The man whom you spoke to this morning is my father." Using 'who' would be considered wrong. In an exam, it is advisable to use 'whom'. ( Singaporeans are using British English.)

The above is related to the grammar section of the English Language Paper. As for the essays, I do not know how the examiners will mark usage relating to 'who' and 'whom'. However, I believe it is safer for our students to opt for formal usage.

Hi Yoong Liat,

In Italy, students are taught to use "whom" as well, especially in schools, where hardly any native speaker teaches English (or French, or any foreign language).
I am sure you've got good reasons to say "I believe it is safer for our students to opt for formal usage".
I only wanted to point out that there are other exams (international examinations, not Italian ones) where students are required to master both formal and informal structures. What's more, candidates would lose marks if they mixed up formal with informal language, or if they chose the wrong register (for instance, by writing a formal letter to a close friend).

Best.

Re: Why is "Can you show me the way how you did it?" incorrect?

Tanit — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 13:57:17 GMT

Yoong Liat wrote:

In Singapore, students are taught to use 'whom'. For example, "The man whom you spoke to this morning is my father." Using 'who' would be considered wrong. In an exam, it is advisable to use 'whom'. ( Singaporeans are using British English.)

To me, generalisation can be dangerous. In Cambridge ESOL exams (such as FCE, CAE, CPE ... British exams!) students are required to write two compositions. One of them can be an informal letter (for instance, to a friend or to a relative). In these compositions, something like "The man whom you spoke to this morning is my father" would be considered inappropriate in terms of register and consistency, while something like "The man who you spoke to this morning is my father" would be considered inappropriate in other contexts (for instance, formal letters or reports).
So, I'd say it depends on your target reader, not on BrE or on exams.

Re: to be exacting

Grammar Geek — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 16:58:19 GMT

I would use "regarding" or "in regard to" instead of "as regards." I'd like to hear from British English users as well as Americans from other regions to hear their opinion of "as regards." It sounds wrong to me, but it's probably just a regional thing.

You can use idiomatic language in formal letters - I see idioms as being different from slang. You should avoid slang in formal letters, in my opinion.

You certainly can used phrasal verbs in formal letters.

Re: Help with formal letter to a university

Mister Micawber — Sun, 03 Oct 2004 22:35:42 GMT

According to their website, it's 'programme' (British spelling would be diplomatic here anyway) and 'Admissions Office'. Also, a letter beginning 'Dear Sir' should conclude with 'Yours faithfully' in formal British English, I believe.

Other than that, Jim's looks fine to me.