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British Red Cross (BRC) Professional IT Support

Overview The Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is the largest independent humanitarian network in the world, with more than 100 million members across the globe. The British Red Cross is a leading UK charity with some 40,000 volunteers working in almost every community. Being such a large organisation means they need the most professional assistance they can get, especially when considering their IT support. After approaching a number of IT support organisations, and following a lengthy selection process, the BRC selected XKO for the reason that XKO's flexible approach to any support requirements and XKO's broad range of technical skills that matched their IT needs.

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Publisher	XKO Group	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	April 2005	Downloads	64
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Distribution Software

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