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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Charities Aid Foundation

Customer service awards rank contact team highly despite tough competition

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Companies were tested to find out what their customer experience was really like. Photograph: Hypermania Images / Alamy/Alamy

The Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) customer service team has been named among the top five call centres in Britain at the Top 50 Companies for Customer Service Awards in London.

CAF is one of the UK’s largest charities which helps people and businesses support the causes they care about, and provides financial services designed for the charitable sector.

The CAF contact team support tens of thousands of charity donors giving through CAF Charity Accounts and CAF Charitable Trusts, and also supports thousands of companies and charities.

A total of 162 organisations took part in the competition which involved extensive mystery shopping over a two month period.

CAF was rated fourth overall – ahead of a string of landmark name companies such as ASDA, Specsavers, Arriva, Virgin Media, and Transport for London.

Keith Milum, director of customer service and experience at CAF said: “As a charity which supports tens of thousands of charity donors, companies and charities, we absolutely pride ourselves on the individual service we give.

“Our team has worked to transform our support for charities and donors, and is a central part of our work to help channel hundreds of millions of pounds to good causes every year.

“We are absolutely delighted to be recognised as one of the best in the country. The generous donors and dedicated charities we serve deserve the best.”

Content on this page is paid for and provided by the Charities Aid Foundation sponsor of the Guardian Voluntary Sector Network’s Charity Money hub.

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