Archives for April 2023

Join us as we support Charlton Athletic Community Trust’s Annual Upbeats Walk on Saturday 29th April, in aid of the Charlton Upbeats, a special football team and wider support group of people living with Down’s Syndrome.

The event is a 9-mile walk between the Charlton Athletic FC training ground and their home ground – ‘The Valley’ – and aims to raise funds for the Upbeats and their programme of special activity for the 170 strong group – all adults and children affected by living with Down’s Syndrome.

We have assembled a talented squad of athletic colleagues 🙂 from across our business to form the ‘Regular Ramblers’. They will be walking with Upbeat members, fellow patrons and other fundraisers to raise money for this deserved group of adults and children so they can keep their activity program alive and running for the coming year.

The Upbeats football team plays in the Kent Adult Disability League and were successful in being league winners in their first season. The Upbeats are also 9 times, National Down’s syndrome champions.
As a patron of Charlton Athletic Community Trust we are involved in supporting many of their initiatives across the year and are happy that we can continue to be part of the Annual Upbeats Walk.

PLEASE DONATE IF YOU CAN

We’ve raised just over half (56%) of our fundraising target for this year so far, but still need your support so please DONATE if you can by registering your contribution on the official event page. Even a small amount will be gratefully received and help us to meet our target.

Thank you.

It’s Easter and everyone loves a chocolate egg. So we thought we’d collect a few from round the team and our service partners and donate them to those who would enjoy them the most – children at some of our community partners.

We work with our community partners as we believe that our business is integral to, and should have positive impacts on society and our local communities. Throughout the year we have a calendar of social value activities involving our community partners.

We received an outstanding 306 donations – mostly Easter eggs but a few other treats. This was massively over what we had estimated we would receive – we had set our hearts on 100.

A great big thanks to all our colleagues and those service partners (Wessex, Fab and Tailormade) who donated to our egg-stravaganza.
With this great haul, we decided to split these across the following partners:

Lewisham Hospital Childrens unit
Lewisham Local Community Meal
Trussell Trust through 25 Soho Square
St Mungos via 40 High Holborn’s Easter Egg donations

We hope all our colleagues, clients, service and community partners are having a relaxing Easter.. 🐰

To coincide with World Health Day (April 7 2023), we are launching a new policy on Neurodiversity, supporting the wellbeing of our workforce.
Around 15% to 20% of the population are considered to be neurodiverse. One of the conditions categorised as such is dyslexia, which approximately 5% to 10% of the global population has. Some 29% of those diagnosed with autism, also considered a neurodivergent condition, have no formal adjustments made at work, while only a similar proportion of the autistic population actually were in employment.

These figures suggest that there is a lack of inclusivity for neurodivergent people in companies, and perhaps little understanding from corporates to the needs of those with related conditions. Areas including environment, management and communication style are examples where adapting to assist people can be considered. A recent government review finding was published earlier this month, and our new policy aims to cater for this group of people so we are a truly inclusive place to work.

We live by our values, and those of being ‘caring’ and ‘respect for people’ are intrinsic to our new policy. To support, we have created and launched a new awareness video on our app-based training platform (image above) which aims to raise awareness of the range and the impact of neurodivergent conditions which our workforce could be affected by.

Sources: People Management

https://www.peoplemanagement.co.uk/article/1818724/mp-urges-employers-implement-tools-support-autistic-people-work-new-government-review?bulletin=pm-daily&utm_source=mc&utm_medium=email&utm_content=PM_Daily_04042023.https%3a%2f%2fwww.peoplemanagement.co.uk%2farticle%2f1818724%2fmp-urges-employers-implement-tools-support-autistic-people-work-new-government-review%3fbulletin%3dpm-daily&utm_campaign=7295441&utm_term=8502616