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Sage Partner Trio Donate

£21k to The Big Pitch Live

Pinnacle joined forces with two other Sage Business
Partners to donate £21k to Philanthropitch, a fast-
pitch competition where innovative charities pitch
to win capital to scale their organization.

As part of the recent Sage Summit UK, charities PIP,
Working Chance and Hire a Hero pitched to a
panel of Sage Executives as well as Sage Business
Partner Sponsors, including James.

The charity in first place was awarded an extra
£10k, second place £7k and third place £4k – on
top of the £25k Big Give donation.
Talking about the Big Give, James said

“I attended Sage Summit Chicago in 2016 when
Sage Chief Financial Officer, Steve Hare set a $1
million fundraising target so that Sage colleagues,
customers and partners could all work together to
do more good for our communities. We have been
following Sage’s global foundation for change and
admiring its efforts to date.

When the opportunity arose to become involved in
the Big Give we immediately signed up there and
then. It is great that 3 local non-profit partners will
benefit from the campaign and I wish them all the
very best of luck”.

Attendees at Sage Summit UK, were able to vote for
their favourite pitch - the judges awarded first place,
but votes then decided second and third place.
Working Chance were the judges choice for first
place, but all three charities are worthy causes and
all were the winners on the day.

If you’d like to find out more about the work that
the Sage Foundation does you can follow
@sagefoundation and Philanthropitch @pitch4good

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