XLN Telecom staff reaching for the sky in the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Peak Challenge

Published 26th July 2010

Twenty four members of XLN Telecom staff will be taking part in the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Peak Challenge this September, to raise £5000 for the charity.

Four teams of six will spend two days conquering the Peak District’s toughest terrain, and at the end the teams must build a raft and attempt to cross a lake.

The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award supports over 275,000 people aged 14-25 every year, and aims to inspire young people in their self-development. The charity aims to enable young people can reach their full potential, whatever their circumstances.

The programme enables young people to develop through personal experience, by inspiring them to spend up to two years volunteering, learning a skill, getting fit, and undertaking an expedition. The result is the world’s leading achievement award for young people, recognised by employers and universities alike.

XLN Telecom specialises in providing small businesses high quality, low-cost fixed-line, mobile and internet services. Today it has over 125,000 customers. Co-founded by Christian Nellemann in 2002, XLN Telecom now employs 145 staff at its Vauxhall head-office and has a turnover in excess of £54 million per annum, having grown by 36% in 2009.

Christian Nellemann, Group CEO of XLN Telecom, remarked:
“The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award programme aims to help young people become better citizens, and I am enormously proud of my team’s commitment to supporting this respected charity.”

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About XLN
XLN is committed to providing the lowest cost telecom services and highest customer service levels to the UK’s small business community. Founded in 2002, XLN is now the UK’s largest independent provider of telecom services to small businesses in Britain having over 125,000 business customers across the country. In 2007, XLN was ranked as the highest placed telco company in the The Sunday Times Tech Track and was listed for a second consecutive year in 2008. In 2009, the company was a finalist in the Customer Focus Award category of the National Business Awards. In the same year, XLN achieved CarbonNeutral® status, making it one of the first companies in its sector to earn this certification. XLN’s founders are Christian Nellemann and Anthony Karibian. In 2006, Christian Nellemann was a winner of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award for Technology and Communication.

Contact details
Christian Nellemann (XLN Telecom) 020 7793 5533

Toby Hall (gth media) 020 3103 3903
Jonathan Kinsella (gth media) 020 3103 3904