HAVE YOU HEARD? Celebrating our care home winners Anchor colleagues collected eight winners’ trophies and four ‘highly-commended’ titles at this autumn’s Great British Care Awards regional finals. Our winning colleagues included the team at Godiva Lodge, Scott Taylor-Smith (Nelson Lodge), Deborah Buchanan (Trinity Lodge), Joanne Meredith and Katie Pickering (The Manor House, Harrogate), Kendra Mannion (Millbeck), Kevin Smith (Dawson Lodge), Sharon Harrison (The Manor House, Barnard Castle), and Victoria Longbottom (The Laureates). A great way to recognise colleagues right across our organisation is through our Anchor Colleague Awards – find out more on pages 16-17.
Let’s get together Four fantastic activity themes for all colleagues and residents to have some fun and achieve more together are coming up next year. They are Wellbeing, Growth, Going Green and Celebrate. No matter where you work, we’d love you to get involved and our first big activity is ‘Move into March’, where we’re aiming to cover the distance around the world together, through walking, dancing, cycling or any type of movement. We’ll also invite local communities to get involved to help spread the word about our great homes, retirement communities and careers. Look out for more information and activity packs on Workplace and our intranet The Bridge.
Welcome to the winter edition of arch from our guest editor
In my role as Procurement Category Manager, and in my home life, from carrots to furniture, electricals to window cleaning, I’m seeing record price increases everywhere. As a business we’re working hard to mitigate these rises for our residents, while supporting colleagues too – as you’ll see on pages 10-12. Energy is top of everyone’s agenda at the moment and we’re trying to secure the best possible price for our gas and electric to minimise the impact on our residents. Longer term, it makes introducing energy- efficient measures (page 20) and homes like Wharfeside (page 8) even more important. Along with the Procurement team, I’m visiting colleagues across our locations and homes, listening to what they and our residents need from
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