Bid to Give with Newstead Technologies

Bid to Give with Newstead Technologies

 

Major IT brands join hands
to support Newstead Technologies’ second on-site
charity auction – 20 laptops up for bids starting at $199 each

Singapore, March 8, 2013 –– Join in the
excitement and place your bids for brand new laptops all for charity this April.
Newstead Technologies today announced that it will be holding its second
multi-brand laptop charity auction, Bid
to Give on April 6 and April 7, 2013, 5.30pm to 7pm at Jurong Point
Shopping Centre, Main Atrium, Level 1. A total of 20 laptops will be up for
bids from just $199 each and all proceeds will go to Newstead Technologies’
adopted charity – The Straits Times School Pocket Money Fund (SPMF).
Newstead Technologies
launched its first Bid to Give
charity auction in April 2011. The highest bid for a single laptop went as high
as $1,759 and a total of $50,000 was raised for SPMF. “We were deeply encouraged
by the response during our first charity auction and decided to bring it back
this year. We hope more people will come forward with their bids for charity
and have fun at the auction too,” said Evelyn Chua, Chief Marketing Officer,
Newstead Technologies.  

SPMF
helps children from low-income families by providing them with pocket money for
school and regular coaching programmes for English and current affairs
knowledge. “We
are very happy that Newstead Technologies will be supporting our cause again
this year. Many parents from low income families struggle to provide for their
children and the support from loyal supporters like Newstead goes a long way,”
said Martina Wong, General Manager, The Straits Times School Pocket Money Fund. 

Interested
participants can register for Bid to Give
at www.newstead.com.sg/bidtogive2013  from March 11 to March 24, 2013. Participants
can look forward to bid for laptops from leading PC brands including Acer,
Asus, Dell, Fujitsu, HP, Lenovo, Panasonic, Samsung and Toshiba. 

“Going to school is one of the
fundamentals of a child’s life. To see and hear how many children are
struggling with their basic school needs make us, at Newstead Technologies want
to do more for the society. We would like to say a big thank you to our partners
for coming on board to support our charity drive this year” said Evelyn.

For
more information about the campaign, log on to www.newstead.com.sg/bidtogive2013

Please refer to the
appendix for the event flyer.