Call Sign November 2003 - Page 11 - DaC's Darren Goes on the Great North Run

Dial-a-Cab driver Darren Dennis (W65) is a great believer in the children’s charity "Get Kids Going," which helps disabled children to take part in athletic events such as paraplegic games – no matter how high or low the standard of event. The charity encourages the kids by showing them that their disabilities need not preclude them from athletic-type events.
To help raise money for the charity, Darren put his name down for one of the UK’s longest standing running events, The BUPA Great North Run, where competitors run from Gateshead to South Shields. Call Sign was one of Darren’s sponsors. The whole event was shown live on BBC TV and Darren ran with a huge DaC logo on his top, however, with thousands of entries, we’re not sure how easy it was to spot him!
Darren had been in training for some time before the event and has run the London Marathon. "I’ve seen too many people suffering because they haven’t done the groundwork before the event," said Darren, "and

DaC's Darren Goes on
the Great North Run

Darren and the two London drivers before the race,
Inset: Darren with his DaC logo at the half-way mark.

with the temperatures predicted to be in the 70s, it was important to be as fit as you could possibly be."
Darren, who ran with two other non-radio London taxi drivers, had a finishing time of 1hour 57minutes.
"It was hard going," Darren told Call Sign after the race, "but no harder than I thought it would be and can I thank all those DaC drivers who helped sponsor me to the tune of £740. It will definitely be nice to get back to the Saturday night booze-ups again!"

Well done, Darren…

DaC In Finals of 2003 ECommerce Awards
October 8 at London’s Grosvenor House Hotel saw Dial-a-Cab get the long overdue notice that our advanced technology deserves. Representing us at the Fifth Ecommerce National Award ceremony was Chairman Brian Rice and so prestigious are these awards that only one ticket per company is allowed! UK Online, a partnership between Industry and Government promoting the use of information and communication technologies to small companies, together with InterForum, a non-profit membership organisation that helps British businesses trade electronically, ran the 2003 awards. They were sponsored nationally by Cisco Systems, the Royal Bank of Scotland Group and national media sponsor The Sunday Times Enterprise Network. The awards have been	designed to recognise and reward those organisations that have demonstrated excellence through the use of the Internet and other Information and Communications Technologies. DaC were the first taxi company in Europe to integrate taxi usage with the Internet and our DaCport has now been recognised worldwide for its innovative abilities. The Awards are open to all UK businesses (limited or otherwise), public bodies, registered charities and non-profit organisations with	fewer than 250 employees based in England, Wales or Northern Ireland. A total of almost 3000 companies were put forward for the awards with DaC being placed in the Mobile and Wireless Technology group. Although we didn’t win – that honour was reserved for Response Maintenance and Building Services – we finished in 8^th position, an amazing result considering that we were one of 3000! It was DaC however who raised the biggest smile of an evening that needed one. Prize presenter Declan Curry from BBC1’s morning TV City News desk read out our name as a "special mention." All those on Brian Rice’s table let out a cheer. Declan then laughed and in a gentle poke at the radio taxi industry said: "You obviously turn up occasionally!" One wag then called out: "They are more reliable than your City forecasts!"

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