Your Thumbs Up Round Up 05/12
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Published 5 Dec 2021 in Colleagues
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🎄It's December and we want you all to get in the festive mood so why not send in your Xmas Thumbs Ups?🎄
Supporting our Food stores - Back to store has started!👍👏
Our Christmas Back to Store programme has begun and this week we feature how our support colleagues got on while helping out in-store. Providing an opportunity for colleagues to give back during the busy Christmas period, there's also the chance to meet new faces and see how our stores operate in the lead up to the big day. A thank you to everyone involved in supporting our stores so far.
Cerys Fields – Supply Chain Administer – Food Retail
For my back to store day, I got the pleasure of going to Bidford Food Market. Upon arrival, I was introduced to Jack, who gave me a walk around the store and showed me all the safety points. He then introduced me to the team and paired me with a friendly colleague to work with for the day.
We worked through leftover delivery and replenished the shelves with any extra stock in the warehouse. Later, my colleague showed me how to do a count on the new HHTs, and I got to work on inputting the numbers while he counted the different lines.
Overall, I had a great day and got a good insight into store working again. I got to meet a friendly, hardworking, and welcoming team and I am glad that I took part. 😊
Reece Leel (HR Graduate Trainee) & Zeb Ahrangzeb (Resourcing Coordinator)
Myself and fellow HR colleague Zeb Ahrangzeb travelled down to the Codsall Food Market to complete our back to floor day, the colleagues working in-store couldn’t have been more kind and welcoming from the minute we arrived.
It was a fun and interesting experience to return to the shop floor, not only to see what great jobs our Food Retail colleagues are doing each day, but also to get involved and feel like you’re making a difference!
Our responsibility for the day was to fill (and rotate) the bread aisle, and then we moved on to fizzy drinks, Xmas and meal-deal aisles where we filled the shelves to the best of our capacity, much to the satisfaction of Simon the store manager. Overall we had an excellent day and look forward to being able to help out again.”
Aly Hull – Resourcing Manager
Yesterday I had the pleasure of working at one of our Food Markets in Cheltenham for my back to the floor day. Each year I go back to the Bath Road store and every time the team are always so welcoming, friendly, and helpful. I would like to say a huge thank you to Cameron and the fab Bath Road team as I had such a great day!
Grow a Mo and Save a Bro - Movember raises £879!
We are proud to announce our fantastic colleagues raised a total of £879 for the Movember Foundation. A big thank you to every who took part and donated to the cause which will help go towards supporting Mental Health & Suicide Prevention, Prostate and Testicular Cancer. You can still donate if you haven't already yet!
Callum Dunne, Corporate Communications
Steve Killick, Botley Food
"Thank you to everyone who has donated to our campaign."
Gavin Pledge - District Manager Food
Your Latest Thumbs Up 👍
Jodie from Newbiggin Childcare has completed her level 3 apprenticeship in record time! Through all the staffing shortages and Covid she managed to fly through with a distinction. The Newbiggin team could not be more proud of Jodie for all of her hard work and determination. Well done Jodie! 😊👏👍
Charlotte and the team at Leamington Grove Nursery slept outside for 12 hours to help raise £547 for our local homeless charity. An incredible effort for the team raising money for a vital cause, well done! 👏👍
A thank you card for Chorleywood Food store from St Clements Danes School for a donation towards their raffle. A kind gesture, well done to the team 😊👏👍
Lee Brown from Kingswinford Food is supporting his local Regional Community by raising £500 to White House Cancer Trust Dudley. With lots of mileage on the clock, please help the cause by donating here. Keep it up Lee! 👍👏😊
Congratulations to Glynis from our Codsall Post Office on her recent 30 Year Service Award, Glynis has worked as a Post Office Counter Clerk in the same branch throughout the time. Well done and enjoy Glynis 👏🎄
We would like to enter Sussex University Nursery with a big Thumbs Up for all of their community work over the last few months.
Each month we take part in activities to support Intergenerational Care, whether that is Teams interactions with our local care homes or creating gifts for our grandparents. Our December activity will be creating a Xmas hamper for the local care home, very similar to our Fathers Day hamper which went down a treat!
Preschool is doing a big project over December where they are focusing on saying ‘thank you; to those in our community, we have Sussex Police visiting on the 13th and have been in communications with our local fire and paramedics.
We also did a menu tasting on Friday (26th Nov) for our parents for the Autumn/Winter Menu to support HALO and Parent Partnerships
Well done to the whole team at Sussex University Nursery helping to support their local communities! 👍👏😊
Congratulations to Michelle Whitehead at Fordhouses Post Office on completing 20 years of service. A great achievement, well done and enjoy Michelle! 👏😊👍
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