It's more important than ever this year to ensure that Christmas is a time for giving and supporting others. Team DB has generously swapped their Secret Santa presents to one another, this year, in exchange for making donations to charities doing vital work and giving support across Scotland this Christmas. An amazing £300 was raised by all staff that was then matched by the business directors to provide £600 to our chosen charities.
What Charities are we supporting?
Edinburgh Soup Hamper
Edinburgh Soup Hamper has been helping out the Edinburgh Community by providing free soup packages containing fresh vegetables to those living on the breadline. Alongside, providing our donation, our business development manager Lisa Harrison been delivering packs containing necessary ingredients for making a pot of filling soup including bread, vegetables, stock cubes.
Ways you can support:
Just Giving page for donations
Facebook page for referring those in need (or self-referrals)
SAMH
SAMH work with adults and young people providing mental health social care support, services in primary care, schools and further education, among others in over 60 communities. These services alongside their national programme work in See Me, respectme, suicide prevention and active living; inform their policy and campaign work to influence positive social change.
Ways you can support:
Donate to SAMH
Winter Well-being:
Self-Help and Coronavirus Information Hub
Edinburgh Children's Hospital Charity
The Royal Hospital for Sick Children (RHSC) is situated in Edinburgh and was the first children's hospital in Scotland. The hospital supports over 100,000 children every year, ranging in age from just a few hours old to aged 16 in some specialties. The hospital treats patients from all over Scotland primarily across Edinburgh, the Lothians, and Fife.
Show your support:
Donate to RHSC
Find out More:
About RHSC
Simon Community Scotland
Simon Community Scotland supports adults and young people who are suffering homelessness by providing individuals with emergency shelter as well as homes in the community. DB Comms has been working with Get Digital Scotland. A digital inclusion program funded by The Scottish Government & Simon Community Scotland to help increase the digital capabilities of service users & staff within the homelessness sector during the Covid-19 crisis.
Find out about their work:
About Simon Community Scotland
Ways you can support:
Donate to Simon Community Scotland
Read about Our Work:
Get Digital Scotland
Without breaking in to song, we are on “The Final Countdown” towards the UK switching off its Digital Phone Line Network. This means businesses will no longer be able to use Phone Systems or Featuring that use either ISDN or PSTN to make or receive calls.
This has been known for a few years now, but as I write this piece, we have less than five-years until WLR is withdrawn completely. From September 2023 businesses will be unable to buy new or additional ISDN and PSTN telephone lines, then in 2025 all Analogue and Digital Lines will be switched off completely. All customers will have to be migrated to a Voice over IP (VoIP) solution, VoIP is more cost-effective, easier to manage and more flexible, it is available in a number of flavours.
Change can be a challenging thought, but if 2020 has taught us anything, it is that our businesses are resilient and we can adapt to change, whether that be remote working, trading restrictions or health and safety practices.
Trusted Partner
Our moto is “Business Comms Simplified” we aim to guide your business from A to B through the path of least resistance, We will work with your business, initially taking time to understand your challenges and requirements, meaning we are then able to design and deploy the solution that best fits.
We can advise on the three main flavours VoIP (Cloud Voice, SIP Trunking or Direct Routing), the products you chose will be based on your specific requirements taking into consideration existing systems, staff size, office locations and any future growth or digital transformation plans you may have for the business
For a few, this is the first time you have heard about this “ISDN Digital Switch Off” or indeed you have not yet started revieing your options, there you have three good reasons not to worry:
- We have enough time to swap
- The benefits and cost savings far outweigh the hassle of changing
- We are here to advise every step of the way
We are here for you should need any advice about how the “ISDN Digital Switch Off” will affect your business, please take our short survey and we can start helping you plan for the future