Page 13 - Under The Roof Avonside Group staff newsletter - November 2018
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UNDER THE ROOF
CHARITY WORK
As a large company we understand our Corporate Social
Responsibility and like to help local communities and
charities where we can. Here’s what our staff have been up
to recently!
Hole in One!
Cake & A Cuppa Our Glasgow and
for Macmillan Edinburgh Area Director,
Chris McLean & Euan
Proudfoot partnered up
with Barratt Developments
Plc’s Feargal Murray &
Craig Cruikshank to
demonstrate their golfing
skills as a team at Barratt
Homes East Charity Golf
Day at Bruntsfield Links
Golfing Society course in Edinburgh.
The day, which was held on 31st August, raised a fantastic
£20,000 for HopScotch Children’s Charity, which provides short
breaks for disadvantaged children in respite care. Well done
guys!
Forget the Great British Bake
Off, our staff donned their
aprons and generously bought MORE STAFF FUN
tasty cakes they had either
baked themselves or bought Avonside Driffield Family Barbie
into the office for a brilliant
Macmillan Coffee Morning on It’s always nice when our
Friday 28th September. staff get together outside
The event, which was work and socialising can
kindly organised by our significantly strengthen
Business Development workplace relationships,
Administrator, Lesley Taylor, making it a joy to come to
raised £120 in total for work. Way back towards
Macmillan Cancer Support’s the end of July our Driffield
worthy cause – well done to Residential Roofing branch
everyone who joined in – organised a BBQ at Dalby
especially our Sales Estimator, Forest in North Yorkshire.
Andy Kershaw for winning the All branch staff,
Staff Bake Off trophy with his along with children and partners, were invited. By all reports the
delicious chocolate Malteser event was a success (despite the rain!) with employees enjoying
cake! the chance to meet and mix with colleagues’ families, whom they
often hear a lot about but, in most cases, have never met so it
was lovely to put names to faces.
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