Putting People First

Our Commitment to Fundraising for St Mungo’s

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Since joining forces with St Mungo’s, we’ve led an amalgamation of work to support ending homelessness. This has included volunteering, training, collaborative events, but also and crucially, fundraising. To continue to provide their much-needed services and put an end to homelessness, vital funds are needed. This makes fundraising for St Mungo’s an important part of our partnership.

We’ve committed to raising £5000 for St Mungo’s this year through donations, and are a third of the way there since announcing our partnership in July.

While we believe that giving our time and expertise to our charity partner is invaluable, it’s so important to raise sufficient funds that can really help and make a difference. These often go towards vital resources and services that provide support and help people to move away from rough sleeping.

ArcelorMittal Orbit Abseil

We’ve been thinking outside of the box in terms of fundraising events. Our brave and inspiring teams have gone above and beyond to raise money, including abseiling off of the ArcelorMittal Orbit in London from 262ft. Our colleagues tackled the challenge head-on on 2nd June 2023, raising £920 from this event alone.

Take the Lead

Our August challenge, ‘Take the Lead’ saw some of our Regular Cleaning mascots take on the distance of a sponsored marathon (26 miles) or an ultra-marathon (50 miles) throughout the month of August. Pixie alone (left) raised £125, earning a St Mungo’s bandana to wear on walks.

Football Event

Our charity football game on 15th September, saw twelve teams taking part in a tournament to raise money and awareness for the homelessness charity. This event was a huge success, with many of our clients and partners forming teams to collaboratively support this cause.

Events like this one not only raise funds to support homelessness, but also raise awareness. Collaborative events like this one inspire conversations and knowledge sharing around the issues surrounding homlessness in the UK. This can lead to even more people getting involved and working together to end rough sleeping.

Upcoming Events

We’ve got a variety of projects and events planned for the Christmas period to continue our commitment to fundraising for St Mungo’s. Since 2018, we have committed to volunteering and fundraising events over the period.

Some of the events planned this year include cooking meals, decorating some of St Mungo’s services and a Christmas gift appeal to give our colleagues the chance to donate gifts that we’ve wrapped up together. To start the new year right, we also have a London Winter Walk planned in January to bring our fundraising efforts straight into 2024.

Round Up: Reflecting on Thank Your Cleaner Day 2023

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We’re reflecting on Thank Your Cleaner Day and the feedback we’ve received.

As October came to a close, we took a moment to look back at this year’s celebration of Thank Your Cleaner Day. We want to reflect on the feedback we’ve received from colleagues and how this has initiated important conversations around our benefits and rewards.

Thank Your Cleaner Day is a celebration of the hard work that cleaning teams do to contribute to business success. Their often invisible role is vital in maintaining clean, healthy, and inspiring environments that are ready to use each day.

This year, we aligned Thank Your Cleaner Day with our core value to ‘Make a Difference’ for our colleagues. This day let us spend some time with our valued cleaning colleagues and celebrate their ongoing hard work. We seized this opportunity to engage with our cleaning teams, explain our benefits package, and most importantly, listen to their feedback.

Our aim was to understand how our colleagues are utilising our benefits and how we can enhance awareness and relevance. By taking the time to listen to the challenges our colleagues face in their work, we’re working on strategies to better support them and make improvements.

We’ve had some truly inspiring conversations with colleagues and received an outpouring of support and feedback. We’re now taking steps to change and enhance our colleague rewards as a result of their input. Our priority is that all teams feel valued at work, with rewards and benefits that are relevant to them.

We’re incredibly proud to see our values in action every day, and we’re committed to continually supporting our colleagues. Thank you to our remarkable cleaning teams for all that you do. Together, we’re building a brighter and more sustainable future.

Thank Your Cleaner Day – 18 October 2023

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This day recognises the hard work of those that make our business a success.

Thank Your Cleaner Day gives us the opportunity to celebrate the hard work our colleagues do to provide a consistently high quality service. We care for our colleagues every day by offering a competitive benefits package, holistic training and wellbeing support. This day lets us not only offer a token of appreciation but also provides us with the opportunity to spend time together. 

This year we’ve aligned Thank Your Cleaner Day with our core family values to ensure we ‘Make a Difference’ for our colleagues. We’re taking the opportunity to explain our benefits package to our colleagues and ask for feedback on these. We hope that this shows us how colleagues are using our benefits, and how we can increase awareness of them. We’ve also taken time to listen to the challenges our colleagues face when undertaking their work. Our aim is to build strategies to support them better and make improvements where needed.

The 18th October is all about our cleaning teams who are the backbone of our business and help us to make a difference every day.

Working hard to keep the spaces we visit enjoyable, this often invisible job is crucial to maintaining healthy, inclusive and inspiring environments. Our skilled cleaning teams are onsite each day to ensure that work and living spaces are ready to use. This is sometimes outside of normal working hours so that buildings are clean, hygienic and ready to use for the next working day. 

Our cleaners are trained to be confident and approachable so that they can engage with visitors to the spaces they clean. It’s this that makes our teams special and an integral part of the environments they work in. We know that our team contribute to how visitors experience these buildings.

That’s why we celebrate Thank Your Cleaner Day. We want to put the spotlight on our amazing cleaning teams, and champion the work they do.

Making a Difference – Bottle Made Blue

Our leadership team have been out and about this month, meeting and thanking our colleagues for their continued hard work.

Bottle and Flyer

To show our thanks, we wanted to give our cleaning colleagues a little something. This year, we’ve gifted them with a sustainable water bottle as a gesture of our appreciation.

These environmentally friendly bottles are recyclable, reusable and dishwasher safe, putting an end to packaged water. We’ve placed a flyer with a message of appreciation in each one and hope our our colleagues enjoy the gift.

In true Regular Cleaning spirit, this gift also delivers positive social value to communities in need.

For each bottle given out, Made Blue provides 500 litres of clean drinking water to a community in need. This equates to one child from a developing country having access to clean drinking water for six months or more.

With close to 1000 charity bottles gifted this Thank Your Cleaner Day, that’s closing in on half a million litres of water donated by us on behalf of our colleagues. 

This makes a huge difference to communities around the globe, supporting our sustainable business strategy to create better places. A simple way to show our thanks, while supporting our sustainability targets and reducing the use of single-use plastic bottles.

Putting People First

As front line workers, our cleaners are an essential part of keeping the spaces we visit safe to use. It’s important to ensure cleaners feel appreciated and valued at work, and we hope that our gift does exactly this. Our priority is to be not only a great employer, but an employer that makes a difference. For us, this means listening, receiving feedback and making any changes needed.

This has been a great opportunity to say thank you in person and hear any feedback our colleagues might have. As a business that values a personal service and lasting relationships, we relish the opportunity to show our appreciation to our hard workers.

Thank Your Cleaner Day is celebrated worldwide, recognising the hard work that cleaners do. Our company has achieved so much as a result of our cleaners and the care they put into their work. By providing a personal service, caring about the job, and building relationships with clients, our colleagues make a difference in their job every day. We’re so proud to see our values demonstrated each day our cleaners come to work, and know it’s this that makes our business a success.

Round Up: Our Charity Football Event for St Mungo’s

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Last week saw our Regular Cleaning values come to life as we raised money for the amazing homelessness charity, St Mungo’s.

What better way to get everyone involved than a friendly game of footie? We recently held a charity football game for St Mungo’s, raising awareness and funds for this fantastic cause.

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Having entered a partnership with the leading homelessness charity, this is one of the many events we’ve been collaborating on. St Mungo’s provide invaluable support to those that are rough sleeping and we couldn’t wait to help raise some funds and awareness.

The game took place place at Goals Beckenham on Friday 15th September, with an impressive twelve teams taking part in the tournament, giving the World Cup a run for its money.

Eighty Strand A
Eighty Strand B
Anderson
Katerine
Mayflower
Team Anderson
Team Carlos
PJ’s Team
So how did the day go?

Some real competition was offered up to our players as twelve teams played three games each in our three leagues.

With teams made up of Regular Cleaning colleagues, plus teams from our clients and partners, it was brilliant to see how much fun, collaboration and healthy competition this tournament brought!

A huge thank you to our clients and partners that took part, including Eighty Strand, Six Mitre Passage, Paula Bone One Stratford Place and Mayflower Washroom Solutions.

This was a brilliant demonstration of team work and a fantastic social value fundraising event!

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The day was split into two parts, with the introduction to referees and the Captains’ briefing getting things started before the group stages kick off. At 8pm we took a break for the buffet, and then the knockout rounds started. The tournament started to heat up for the final rounds, with Team Mayflower taking the place as our champions, and Katerine’s team in second place.

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Winners: Team Mayflower
Runners Up – Katerine’s Team

We’ve been overwhelmed with the amount of support we got for this event, raising an incredible £1,489 for St Mungo’s.

“Huge thank you to everyone at Regular Cleaning for putting on a fantastic event for St Mungo’s and for raising vital funds to help people experiencing homelessness. We are extremely grateful for you championing our work and can’t thank you enough for your continued support as one of our dedicated Corporate Partners!”

From Lucy Cowham, St Mungo’s Corporate Partnerships Executive – Account Management

It was wonderful to see such a demonstration of our company values from all those that participated in the day. Thank you to everyone involved, who either played, came along to watch or helped organise. We had so much fun, and it was all in the name of a truly deserving cause.

The story behind our corporate partnership with St Mungo’s

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We announced last month that we were entering into a corporate partnership with one of the UK’s leading homelessness charities, St Mungo’s.

So how did our relationship with St Mungo’s begin?

When some of our clients and colleagues were finding rough sleepers outside of the buildings we service, they were unsure of how best to help. We began our search for a charity that would work with us to provide real help, and that’s when we came across St Mungo’s.

St Mungo’s stood out as an organisation that would help the people we encountered to find safety, and actively engaged with us to offer meaningful support to those we met.

We quickly found that our company values were closely aligned. With caring and making a difference guiding both of our organisations, we became a corporate supporter in 2018.

Since then we’ve seen that in this role we’ve been able to make a big impact on our communities’ and clients’ understanding and awareness of homelessness, and better the lives of those in need.

We wanted to expand the opportunities open to us and our clients through St Mungo’s activity programmes and moved to become a corporate partner earlier this year.

Partnership between St Mungo's and Regular Cleaning.
Regular Cleaning and St Mungo's Partnership.
What do St Mungo’s do?

Each night, the work of St Mungo’s means that almost 3,000 people have a bed, and somewhere warm to stay. Providing support with wellbeing, accommodation, employment and training, their clients develop employability skills to improve their independence and confidence. This offers meaningful support, giving them the skills to rebuild their lives. Consequently, they are able to get off the streets and into somewhere that offers safety and stability for the long-term.

Why is St Mungo’s the right fit for us?

We relish any opportunity to lend a hand to our local communities in any way we can. This partnership opens up opportunities for us to create social value supporting our purpose of creating better places. Through financial commitment, fundraising and volunteering, we hope that in collaboration with St Mungo’s, we can help to end homelessness.

St Mungo’s also provide specialist Homelesswise Training for businesses, empowering people to offer practical help to rough sleepers they find. This teaches colleagues how to manage homelessness, including what to do if they see someone sleeping in a doorway near their workplace. This in turn lets us provide training content to our own clients and colleagues around homelessness, should they want it. With this being a common issue in the UK, we’re pleased that through this partnership we can help. We want to offer our clients a solution, while helping those that are rough sleeping to find shelter.

This all ties in to our strategy to Create Better Places, for Everyone, Every day. It’s this that makes St Mungo’s our perfect corporate partner, and we look forward to creating a better future, together.

Partnership between St Mungo's and Regular Cleaning
Decorating a St Mungo's hostel for Christmas
Regular Cleaning team volunteering for St Mungo's.
Partnership between St Mungo's and Regular Cleaning
Gardening volunteering for St Mungo's
Gardening volunteering for St Mungo's

Gardening for St Mungo’s

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We recently joined St Mungo’s at a women’s only accommodation service to transform the garden ready for a summer BBQ, and the residents to enjoy.

Thanks to our partnership with St Mungo’s, we recently sent some volunteers to a London service for a day of gardening.

With the aim of creating an enjoyable garden ready for the summer months, we spent the day clearing up the overgrown plants and any debris to transform this into a green space that the clients can relax in. We began by selecting our tool of choice so that we could spread out and start clearing the area. We used spades, shears, secateurs, trowels and rakes to cut back the trees, pull up weeds and tidy the earth.

In the morning, we cleared away the majority of the overgrown plants and trees on the lawn and patio. We quicky discovered that the garden has plenty of potential, with lots of light pouring onto the lawn.

Gardening for St Mungo's
Gardening for St Mungo's
Gardening for St Mungo's

Once complete, we could see which spots got the most sunlight and where herbs, plants and flowers might flourish.

This activity required quite a bit of physical work for our volunteers but so rewarding as the space soon displayed its potential. We added a few final touches to make the garden more attractive, finding pots to plant our seeds in and placing them around the garden in different spots. These included herbs like Rosemary and Thyme and flowers like Jasmine to add some colour and a floral scent.

We also discovered a log burner and wooden table underneath some of the debris which we cleaned up for the BBQ, as well as some glass vases, hanging baskets and decorative pieces that we could place around.

The Result

This was such a rewarding day and we were so pleased to have been invited to join this volunteering opportunity. Gardening for St Mungo’s provides a huge benefit to their services and allows big tasks to be tackled by the volunteers’ group effort.

We hope that the clients can make the most of this garden now and that it provides a space for for relaxing, socialising and enjoying the flowers and nature it has to offer.

“You did a brilliant job of clearing the garden and transforming the space for clients to enjoy this summer. Volunteering days … allow bigger pieces of work to be done, which would take one staff member a really long time! I know the service were extremely grateful for you taking the time to volunteer with us!” – Lucy Cowham, Corporate Partnerships Executive for St Mungo’s

As part of our Better Places strategy we proactively look for ways to give back to our local communities. Having worked with St Mungo’s since 2018 on a variety of projects, we’ve seen the impact these projects can have. Our partnership with St Mungo’s opens up many more opportunities for us to deliver meaning social value to our communities and we’re so excited to make a real difference together.

Thank you to St Mungo’s and all our volunteers for making this day such a success!