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Andrew Blackburn Underwriter for Contaminated Product Insurance from Sagicor started his charity challenge this week to Live Below the Line on £5 for 5 days.

The driver for Andrew for LBTL was to raise awareness and some money for UNICEF so that more children can have the basic needs in life – food, healthcare, education and a safe environment.

Having successfully completed living on £5 on food this week let’s hear more about some of difficulties Andrew faced:

“I would say that hardest part of the challenge wasn’t so much about being hungry but the lack of freedom. The freedom to have coffee/tea for example when you want it’s amazing how we take that for granted sometimes but with the challenge in place you have no choice or options, you’re forced to buy cheap food.  I was socially restricted as well, for instance the money that I would have spent on a friend’s birthday party in terms of having a drink this week I was forced to drink tap water.” (please see below for Andrew’s food diary)

£100 which Andrew would have spent on breakfast, lunch, dinner and evening meals has been donated to UNICEF instead. Living on £1/day for ALL food & drink for 5 days has been a very daunting challenge for Andrew, especially for someone with a big appetite! Sagicor is very proud of Andrew for his effort and would like to say a well done for the worthy challenge.

Please support Andrew by putting in last minute donations:

https://www.livebelowtheline.com/me/andrewblackburn

Here’s what Andrew’s tough week looked like:

Monday (87p)

Breakfast – 2 slices of wholemeal toast (5p) and 2 spoons of jam (4p)

Lunch – Sausage and bean chilli, made with sausages, red kidney beans, onion, chopped tomatoes, chilli mix, rice, water (30p)

Tea – As per lunch (30p)

Evening snack – 1 slice of toast and jam (5p), banana (13p)

Tuesday (56p)

Breakfast – 4 slices of wholemeal toast and jam (18p)

Lunch – Sausage and bean chilli, made with sausages, red kidney beans, onion, chopped tomatoes, chilli mix, rice with stuffing, water (35p)

Tea – walnut (3p)

Wednesday (£1.17)

Breakfast – 3 slices of wholemeal toast and jam (14p)

Morning snack – banana (13p)

Lunch – double portion of pasta made with pasta sauce, sausage meat from 4 sausages, and canned carrots (48p)

Tea – sausage meat and sage and onion stuffing mixture, with mushy peas (42p)

Thursday (£1.00)

Breakfast – banana (13p)

Early lunch – portion of pasta made with pasta sauce, sausage meat from 4 sausages, and canned carrots (24p)

Late lunch – portion of pasta made with pasta sauce, sausage meat from 4 sausages, and canned carrots (24p)

Supper – sausagemeat stuffing mix sandwiches – 4 slices of toast (39p)

Friday (£1.06)

Breakfast – beans on toast – 4 slices (34p)

Lunch – pasta and chilli leftovers (54p)

Supper – 4 slices of toast and jam (18p)

2013's LMA Academy for the best Syndicate Plan went to team Tower Underwriting (see below).

The competition consisted of 4 teams (Tower Underwriting, Seguro Syndicate 2005, Darwin 1809 and Kaizen Syndicate) with 6 members from different companies and was judged by a panel of 4 including Tom Bolt (Lloyd's Performance Management Director).  More Information...

As part of the growing partnership between Sagicor and Tower Hamlets Primary School The Globe, Sagicor have started donating Blackberrys to the school. Paul Marden Head of Marketing, Communications and CSR at Sagicor commented "In our industry we take it for granted that we can contact each other fairly instantly, working with the Globe we want to allow teachers the ability to be instantly contacted and work during down times when travelling to and from work". Barry Cable Head of Information Technology at Sagicor said "Late last year Sagicor changed mobile provider and refreshed a number of mobile devices, as a consequence were pleased to be able to donate a number of mobile phones to The Globe Primary School. I have a reading partner there and it is good to know that I can get a message to the school if work commitments prevent me from attending one of the partner sessions".

To find out more about Sagicor’s work with the Globe or any of their CSR activities, please contact Paul Marden. paul.marden@sagicor.eu.

Lloyd’s Old Library was the unlikely setting for heated discussions about Justin Beiber this week as finalists in the 18^th Tower Hamlets Schools Public Speaking Competition shared their views on university, social mobility and a celebrity obsessed society.

Paul Marden, Head of marketing, communications and Corporate Social Responsibility was one of the five judges for the event.  He said, “It’s not just the delivery of the speeches that has been impressive, it’s also the content.  It’s so good for the students to be able to come to a professional environment like Lloyd’s for the finals and have their achievements appreciated like this”

10 Schools out of 15 in Tower Hamlets entered teams in the competition with 250 students overall taking part.

Sagicor hosted the semi-final the previous week where 4 members of staff made up the judging panel, Hannah Jones from Sagicor said “the standard was excellent”.

The final winners were:

First place: Darcey Mc.Guinness  (Morpeth School)

Second Place: Omar Mohammed (St. Paul’s Way Trust School)

Third place: Rebecca Lambert Neua (Swanlea School)

If anyone is interested in taking part next year please contact Paul on 02030036924

Sagicor at Lloyd’s Marketing & Communications team; Paul Marden and Hannah Jones will be sharing their social media experiences with the insurance industry at Effective Image’s social media breakfast briefing.

The event is taking place on 5^th March between 8:30am – 10:30am at 117 Fenchurch Street, London, EC3M 5DY.

Hannah Jones from Sagicor’s marketing team said “I am delighted to be able to talk about how we have used social media here at Sagicor. We have found it really interesting exploring which outlets work for us and which have proven more difficult for B2B marketing.”

Paul Marden, head of marketing and communications added “We will be covering how we first approached using social media to the everyday upkeep of our media accounts and hopefully provide some good advice to other insurers looking to venture into the world of social media.”

This is the second time Sagicor have been noticed for their use of social media, after they took part in a live twitter chat run by Get Ahead of the Games last summer, advising other businesses on how to prepare for the hectic Olympic period.   Paul Marden said “It’s great to be noticed for our hard work once again.”

Andrew Blackburn Underwriter for Contaminated Product Insurance from Sagicor started his charity challenge this week to Live Below the Line on £5 for 5 days.

The driver for Andrew for LBTL was to raise awareness and some money for UNICEF so that more children can have the basic needs in life – food, healthcare, education and a safe environment.

Having successfully completed living on £5 on food this week let’s hear more about some of difficulties Andrew faced:

“I would say that hardest part of the challenge wasn’t so much about being hungry but the lack of freedom. The freedom to have coffee/tea for example when you want it’s amazing how we take that for granted sometimes but with the challenge in place you have no choice or options, you’re forced to buy cheap food.  I was socially restricted as well, for instance the money that I would have spent on a friend’s birthday party in terms of having a drink this week I was forced to drink tap water.” (please see below for Andrew’s food diary)

£100 which Andrew would have spent on breakfast, lunch, dinner and evening meals has been donated to UNICEF instead. Living on £1/day for ALL food & drink for 5 days has been a very daunting challenge for Andrew, especially for someone with a big appetite! Sagicor is very proud of Andrew for his effort and would like to say a well done for the worthy challenge.

Please support Andrew by putting in last minute donations:

https://www.livebelowtheline.com/me/andrewblackburn

Here’s what Andrew’s tough week looked like:

Monday (87p)

Breakfast – 2 slices of wholemeal toast (5p) and 2 spoons of jam (4p)

Lunch – Sausage and bean chilli, made with sausages, red kidney beans, onion, chopped tomatoes, chilli mix, rice, water (30p)

Tea – As per lunch (30p)

Evening snack – 1 slice of toast and jam (5p), banana (13p)

Tuesday (56p)

Breakfast – 4 slices of wholemeal toast and jam (18p)

Lunch – Sausage and bean chilli, made with sausages, red kidney beans, onion, chopped tomatoes, chilli mix, rice with stuffing, water (35p)

Tea – walnut (3p)

Wednesday (£1.17)

Breakfast – 3 slices of wholemeal toast and jam (14p)

Morning snack – banana (13p)

Lunch – double portion of pasta made with pasta sauce, sausage meat from 4 sausages, and canned carrots (48p)

Tea – sausage meat and sage and onion stuffing mixture, with mushy peas (42p)

Thursday (£1.00)

Breakfast – banana (13p)

Early lunch – portion of pasta made with pasta sauce, sausage meat from 4 sausages, and canned carrots (24p)

Late lunch – portion of pasta made with pasta sauce, sausage meat from 4 sausages, and canned carrots (24p)

Supper – sausagemeat stuffing mix sandwiches – 4 slices of toast (39p)

Friday (£1.06)

Breakfast – beans on toast – 4 slices (34p)

Lunch – pasta and chilli leftovers (54p)

Supper – 4 slices of toast and jam (18p)

2013's LMA Academy for the best Syndicate Plan went to team Tower Underwriting (see below).

The competition consisted of 4 teams (Tower Underwriting, Seguro Syndicate 2005, Darwin 1809 and Kaizen Syndicate) with 6 members from different companies and was judged by a panel of 4 including Tom Bolt (Lloyd's Performance Management Director).  More Information...

As part of the growing partnership between Sagicor and Tower Hamlets Primary School The Globe, Sagicor have started donating Blackberrys to the school. Paul Marden Head of Marketing, Communications and CSR at Sagicor commented "In our industry we take it for granted that we can contact each other fairly instantly, working with the Globe we want to allow teachers the ability to be instantly contacted and work during down times when travelling to and from work". Barry Cable Head of Information Technology at Sagicor said "Late last year Sagicor changed mobile provider and refreshed a number of mobile devices, as a consequence were pleased to be able to donate a number of mobile phones to The Globe Primary School. I have a reading partner there and it is good to know that I can get a message to the school if work commitments prevent me from attending one of the partner sessions".

To find out more about Sagicor’s work with the Globe or any of their CSR activities, please contact Paul Marden. paul.marden@sagicor.eu.

Lloyd’s Old Library was the unlikely setting for heated discussions about Justin Beiber this week as finalists in the 18^th Tower Hamlets Schools Public Speaking Competition shared their views on university, social mobility and a celebrity obsessed society.

Paul Marden, Head of marketing, communications and Corporate Social Responsibility was one of the five judges for the event.  He said, “It’s not just the delivery of the speeches that has been impressive, it’s also the content.  It’s so good for the students to be able to come to a professional environment like Lloyd’s for the finals and have their achievements appreciated like this”

10 Schools out of 15 in Tower Hamlets entered teams in the competition with 250 students overall taking part.

Sagicor hosted the semi-final the previous week where 4 members of staff made up the judging panel, Hannah Jones from Sagicor said “the standard was excellent”.

The final winners were:

First place: Darcey Mc.Guinness  (Morpeth School)

Second Place: Omar Mohammed (St. Paul’s Way Trust School)

Third place: Rebecca Lambert Neua (Swanlea School)

If anyone is interested in taking part next year please contact Paul on 02030036924

Sagicor at Lloyd’s Marketing & Communications team; Paul Marden and Hannah Jones will be sharing their social media experiences with the insurance industry at Effective Image’s social media breakfast briefing.

The event is taking place on 5^th March between 8:30am – 10:30am at 117 Fenchurch Street, London, EC3M 5DY.

Hannah Jones from Sagicor’s marketing team said “I am delighted to be able to talk about how we have used social media here at Sagicor. We have found it really interesting exploring which outlets work for us and which have proven more difficult for B2B marketing.”

Paul Marden, head of marketing and communications added “We will be covering how we first approached using social media to the everyday upkeep of our media accounts and hopefully provide some good advice to other insurers looking to venture into the world of social media.”

This is the second time Sagicor have been noticed for their use of social media, after they took part in a live twitter chat run by Get Ahead of the Games last summer, advising other businesses on how to prepare for the hectic Olympic period.   Paul Marden said “It’s great to be noticed for our hard work once again.”