Posts Tagged ‘Putting People First’
London Living Wage: Our Progress So Far
How are we doing? Regular Cleaning has been working to get frontline colleagues moved to the current London Living Wage rates announced last year. We’re reflecting on the progress we’ve made so far to ensure all colleagues are paid the Living Wage or above. As a cleaning company, we recognise our responsibility is for frontline…
Read MoreGardening volunteering at LARC for St Mungo’s
We recently donned our gardening gloves and returned to the garden at one of St Mungo’s accommodation services, to help to prepare the space for summer. This is part of our regular support activity for St Mungo’s, to help them to combat the problem of homelessness on the streets of several UK cities. Volunteering is…
Read MorePutting people first, launching our Wellbeing Room
The wellbeing of our colleagues is vital to the health of our business and ‘Putting People First’ is one of four focus areas in our sustainable business strategy, which we call ‘Better Places’. It’s been said we’re currently living in a ‘permacrisis’, and with an increasingly uncertain environment surrounding our everyday lives from energy prices…
Read MorePutting People First: a real living wage
The Real Wage movement began in 2001 when the East London Community Organisation (now part of the community organising network Citizens UK) brought together churches, mosques, schools and other local institutions to talk about the issues affecting their communities. Low pay repeatedly came up in their meetings as issue affecting people’s lives and impacting on…
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