PRESS RELEASE Launch date: 30.04.08 - 12 noon Venue: Trafalgar Square, London UK MySkip.com is a new exciting internet based virtual ‘skip’ where you’ll be able to rummage or dispose of useful items for free that might otherwise end up in landfill, helping to preserve the environment in the process. MySkip.com is a fun, modern and vibrant site having filmed endorsements from major companies and celebrities alike. World Leaders & Celebrities on board! Over the last two years this exciting British based concept has developed beyond belief, gaining massive support from many world leaders including, The Dalai Lama, Prime Minister of France, former Prime Minister of Australia even... HRH The Prince of Wales has send this warmest good wishes for the success of the project. At 12 noon on the day of the launch, David Bellamy OBE will be joined by other personalities as MySkip.com places a huge skip on Trafalgar Square in the heart of London to focus on the issue of re-use. Items have been donated by, Green Motion Car Hire, Bang & Olufsen, EcoMoped, Intrepid Holiday Operators and even a nearly new Mercedes-Benz Smart Car will be given away to the 1,000,000th visitor to the site on the day of launch. Many celebrities including Carol Vorderman and Craig David who also support MySkip.com will be invited to the launch in Trafalgar Square, along with heads of business, (Rob Senior, CEO Saatchi & Saatchi) sport personalities, (David James – England goalkeeper) and culture, (Dr Francis Corner – Head of London College of Fashion) to promote its aim, to reduce landfill through encouraging reuse around the world. &Together.com who are part of the Climate group have partnered with us. Their mission is to accelerate the pace of international action on climate change and they are currently working with Tony Blair on a new climate change initiative.
Setting a Guinness World Record! To date MySkip.com has had 300,000 pre-register members with an expected 1,000,000 visitors on its first day of launch including over 50,000 school children, teachers and parents - all keen to make a real difference by supporting re-use and reducing landfill in the process. The massive interest in My Skip.com will be officiated during the launch on the day by the Guinness World Records! They will record MySkip.com creating a new World Record as, ‘the most visited website on the first day of launch’.
Other Business... As well as press coverage in The Independent Newspaper and OK! magazine, BBC Radio 2’s Janie Lee Grace & Steve Wright on the Steve Wright Show reported, ‘MySkip.com is going to be huge, it’s going to be as big as E-bay’! Even PR guru Max Clifford is one of MySkip’s many supporters along with Bang & Olufsen, The Carphone Warehouse, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Barclaycard, Superdrug, Specsavers and many other major companies. There is also the talk of a massive concert on the scale of Live Aid planned both simultaneously at Hyde Park in London and Central Park, NYC. This will create global awareness with a view to help further reduce landfill. MySkip team The MySkip team have future incentives planned to help the UK and developing countries around the world benefit from re-use. David Bellamy OBE will be overseeing the MySkip Foundation Trust - the charitable arm of MySkip.com. It will be looking to provide basic necessities such as clean running water to developing countries. To date a small handful of dedicated individuals have devoted all their time and effort into making MySkip.com the next internet phenomenon. They include MySkip’s CEO, Gary Cope, creative director Julian Defries, director of operations, May Al-Karooni, TV presenter & writer Paul Sadler and conservationist David Bellamy OBE. Through promoting re-use, MySkip.com has a real possibility to change the way society presently wastes its resources. Its launch in the UK will be repeated in America, Japan and the rest of Europe over the following months. For further information, and to arrange interviews for radio, TV and press for the UK launch, please contact: Paul Sadler – Director of Media & Communications Mobile: +44 (0) 7976328447 Email: paul@myskip.com