Your Thumbs Up Round Up 01/05
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Published 1 May 2022 in Colleagues
Get Involved! We want our Colleagues to share all the incredible and fantastic Thumbs Up and Good News stories from across the Society. 👍
It's easy to take part, all you have to do is send through your entries to thumbsup@midcounties.coop with a sentence outlining why you’ve given yourself, your team or a team member a ‘thumbs up’ today and we will feature it on Colleagues Connect.
Last one - Your Pets during National Pet Month! 🐰🐱🐕
Thank you to everyone who shared their pets during National Pet Month. Bringing so much joy and companionship, our pets help us exercise, get outside, and even socialise!
If you missed last week's round-up click here
Kirsty from Newcastle Nursery with 13 yo Tabitha
Sarah from Utilities with her 17 month old Cockerpoo
Daniel from Property with Loki the dog
Amy with Reggie the Pug
Sarah from Travel with Freda on top of the boiler
Neil from Bicester Food with 14 yo Littlecat
Katherine from Membership with Barney the dog
Yvonne from Food with Kofi (black) & Olaf (white)
Dawn from Travel with Aggie our little mascot for Aldridge Travel
Natasha - Allenton Travel with Springer Spaniel Addie on our wedding
Barbara from Bampton with Flo and Lil I'm
Michelle from Post Office with Dexter the cat
John with his old English Sheepdog called Wallace
Tina from CIT with Buster – Pomeranian dog (mini fox)
Christian with Leo and Ralphy who are Rhodesian Ridgebacks aged 11 and 2
Clare from HR with Harry the ball loving Labrador
Susan with Flo the rescue cat
Shirley with her mini silver dapple dachshund puppy - 6 months old
Maz from Pelsall Food with Bilbobaggins the Minature Jack Russell
Julie from Stourport with Terry the Tortoise
Rob from Sailsbury Avenue food with 7-year-old ragdoll cat called Chibi
Jenny from Ermin Street food with Bugsy
Michelle from Post Office with Meadow a Senegal parrot. Rescued and kept since 1999
Supporting future career opportunities for Young Adult Carers - Forest of Dean RC 👏👍
Forest of Dean Regional Community today supported the YAC Futures Event at Skillzone in Gloucester for our charity partner Gloucestershire Young Carers. YAC (Young Adult Carers) Futures is a career event for those young carers who are considering future career options.
Tony Phelps (Store Manager, Lydney) and Alan Cratchley (Safe Stores Manager) held sessions for career discussions in Food, and Faye Harris from Cinderford Travel held discussions for careers in Travel.
The event was also sponsored by Midcounties and all the attendees left with a well-being hamper provided for and made by our Coleford store.
Forget Me Not - Bicester RC Charity Partner - Easter donations 🐣
Last week, Dean and Margaret, from Bassett Avenue store handed out Easter eggs to the RC charity partner Forget Me Not. Everyone was really happy to receive one with a big thank you to Dean, Margaret and the team involved. See the lovely pictures below.
Your Latest Thumbs Up 👍
Alicia from Assistant Travel Manager, Sedgley Travel saved a customer's holiday! She made about 18 calls – and spent hours on the phone – tracking down the missing passport so her client and her family made it to the flight just on time.
Fantastic work Alicia, going above and beyond! - Read the full story here. 😊👏👍
Our colleague Lisa Eccleston has been at New Invention Post Office for 7 years.
She is leaving Post Office today and transferring to Midcounties Chase Terrace Travel.
We wish Lisa all the best for her new adventure!
£25,000 raised in our Longlevens charity shop that goes directly to RDA- this is in the first 7 months we have had the shop and is enough to keep 2 horses for a year!
"I feel that both my manager Mark Chapman and myself deserve thumbs-ups for working a lot more than our scheduled hours and keeping the Besselsleigh store running considering the fact that we are short-staffed at the moment."
Harry Hamm - definitely deserved Harry 👍😊👏
Charity car wash for Stroud RC with funds raised going towards a new defibrillator. Well done!👏😊👍
Easter fundraising in the Forest of Dean Regional Community - they raised in excess of 2,000 last week from the activities for our charity partner Gloucestershire Young Carers (GYC).
Feedback from GYC:
"Well, what can I say but WOW and THANK YOU! That is an amazing amount of money to raise in such a short space of time, thank you so much for all your efforts and ideas to make this Eggstra special fundraising happen 😊 This money really will make a big difference to young carers lives."Sally, Development Manager at GYC
Great cake in Bourton celebrating the Queen's birthday!
Lydney Easter Fundraising
Lydney Easter Fundraising cake sale
Easter Fundraising - Lydney Easter Bonnets!
Newent Easter Hamper winner
Valley Road - Easter Name the Bunny
What is Thumbs Up?👍
‘Thumbs Up’ is our way of celebrating all your heroic efforts by sharing your great work and giving other colleagues the ability to like it.
It could be some great customer feedback you've received, something you've done to help the local community or simply a Thumbs Up to your team!
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