Olympics organisers remove charity auction posters

Fundraising | Kirsty Weakley | 2 Aug 2012

Olympic organisers yesterday removed posters from around the outside of the Olympic Park, including one advertising a charity auction.

Furniture designer Martin Barnett provided £150,000 worth of furniture to a pop-up restaurant, Forman’s Fish Island, for the duration of the Games and plans to sell it afterwards with 20 per cent of the proceeds going to charity.

Barnett said: “They are being very aggressive and we are not even in the park.”

He added: “We are doing our bit and we have gone and put the signs up so people are aware – if you want to buy a chair or something you can buy it here and some of the money will go to charity.”

London mayor Boris Johnson branded the action “outrageous” when he was asked about it on LBC Radio, and said: “I will immediately get on it.”

This morning a spokesman for the Olympic Delivery Authority, which was responsible, said: “A number of posters attached to lamp-posts near the Olympic Park were removed earlier today because they contravened advertising and trading regulations during the Olympic Games. However, we have decided that it would not be appropriate to take any further action over posters or signs that are purely intended to direct people to local business premises or attractions – as opposed to being for advertising purposes.”

No live-streaming in the office

Meanwhile the Telegraph has reported that Mencap is among a growing number of organisations that have asked staff not to live-stream the Olympics on their computers as it uses up bandwidth and affects the speed of the internet connection.

It has however set up a large screen in the canteen so that people can watch the action.

Other organisations including, Los Angeles city council, marketing company Forward 3D and Olympic sponsor Deloitte have taken similar measures.

The BBC Sport website has recorded high volumes of traffic this week, with 9.7 million global unique visitors on Monday.

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