Our charity

Our selected charity for 2011/2012 is World Vision. We chose World Vision because of the extraordinary work they undertake across the world in improving living conditions and future prospects for under-privileged children. 

We felt that their philanthropic vision is closely aligned with our own commercial objectives: Whilst our corporate mission is to help ICT companies achieve growth by using the intelligence and knowledge we can place at their fingertips, World Vision’s mantra is to create opportunities for improving knowledge and intelligence at the level of the individual, under-priviledged child. The similarity of our processes, in spite of the different motivations behind them, has encouraged us all to pledge our support to this excellent cause.

We’re extremely proud to have been accepted as a corporate sponsor. As this is a new initiative for Rhetorik, we’ll be looking at ways to explore and extend the ways in which we support World Vision. However, our basic promise is that for each firm that licenses a full copy of NetFinder we will pledge to support a child through the World Vision sponsorship programme. Watch this space for updates!

David Young, Head of Group Marketing at Rhetorik and Matrix Solutions, said: "This is an excellent initiative for everybody concerned. Each company taking out a full annual NetFinder licence will get to see how their involvement with our intelligence services is making a direct contribution to the welfare and wellbeing of under-privileged children all across the globe. We’re excited about the endless possibilities involved in this kind of corporate sponsorship at the individual level. We chose World Vision because their values reflect many of our own at Rhetorik. As an organisation we’re looking to be a leader in providing intelligence to the ICT community, whilst World Vision are succeeding in creating opportunities to promote intelligence and knowledge at the level of the individual child. Long may our partnership with World Vision continue."

Laura Jones, representative at World Vision said: "We’re delighted to have both Rhetorik and Matrix as company sponsors and wish them luck with their products – we hope that they’ll be able to help improve the lives of many children across the globe as a result of their forward-thinking initiatives."

Rhetorik Marketing Man cycles length of the UK for World Vision

We’re delighted to announce that John Millington, Group Marketing Manager successfully completed a 960-mile cycle from John o'Groats to Lands End in aid of World Vision at the beginning of June 2011. He decided to take on the challenge having never cycled intensively for more than a day in one go: “I’m so pleased to have had the opportunity to take on such a big personal challenge, while benefitting more children in the World Vision scheme. It was a truly exhausting experience, through some fairly torrid conditions at times, but I got there in the end!”

John raised nearly £1,000 for the charity and we used this to sponsor another three children for at least another year. Jose Fernando from Honduras, Sarah Patric from Tanzania and Romena (further details to follow) are the children pictured below:

For details of Matrix Solutions charity fund raising for World Vision please click here.