BUSINESS ALLIANCE


BUSINESS ALLIANCE


CYNTHIA SPENCER HOSPICE


The Chamber’s BUSINESS ALLIANCE GROUP is an exclusive group of influential companies. It brings together large and well-established businesses from within the county who receive exclusive benefits via their group membership


EMB GROUP


A CERTIFICATION OF QUALITY FOR EMB


EMB Group is delighted to have achieved ISO9001:2015 quality certification. The organisation has


successfully transitioned from the previous standard, ISO9001:2008, to the revised 2015 standard. Jonathan Radcliffe, lead


The first donation is delivered to the new base


VOLUNTEERS NEEDED AT CHARITY HOSPICE


A hospice charity which provides specialist palliative care services has issued a call to action to the business community. Cynthia Spencer Hospice offers inpatient care, outpatient services,


Hospice@Home, a lymphoedema service and day hospice service in South Northamptonshire. The charity needs to raise £1.9m this year to help fund the hospice’s


annual running costs. To help generate these funds it has opened a retail distribution unit to process donations for its charity shops and it needs your help to run and stock it. Retail manager Charlotte Jones said: “It’s important we get quality


donations into our charity shops quickly because this is where our income comes from. Our new retail distribution unit has a Donation Station to make it easy for the public to donate goods, including furniture and electrical goods. Having the unit will also allow us to start opening new shops within the South Northamptonshire area. “Now we urgently need volunteers to help us make the unit successful.


We’ve been thrilled to have employees from various companies coming to spend a day with us at the unit and would urge other businesses to have a charity day where their colleagues could come along to support us. “Anyone in South Northamptonshire could need our services for themselves or their families.” Volunteers will help sort donations and identify items which could attract


higher prices and allocate them for sale on the charity’s eBay page via http://ebay.eu/2sAwrco The Donation Station is open from 9am to 5pm Monday to Friday and is


based at Pondwood House, Pondwood Close, Moulton Park, Northampton, NN3 6RT. The hospice would like to hear from businesses undergoing refurbishments


or office moves that may have furniture or office equipment they could donate. They should call 01604 973349 or email cathy@cynthiaspencer.co.uk


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auditor for certification body ISOQAR, said in his report: “This has been a satisfactory transition visit to the new ISO9001:2015 Standard. “The established QMS


continues to be well managed and maintained. Good control of service provision was identified together with associated documents, records, and support processes. “Excellent co-operation


and commitment was demonstrated by the management team.” The revised ISO9001:2015


standard brings changes in a number of areas, including:


• An emphasis on leadership


• A focus on risk management


• Emphasis on objectives measurement and change


• Communication and awareness


‘GOOD CONTROL OF SERVICE


PROVISION WAS IDENTIFIED


TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED DOCUMENTS’


• Fewer prescriptive requirements. Sean Read, executive director, EMB Group, said: “EMB Group is delighted


to have achieved ISO 9001:2015. It will really add value to our group in the longer term.” Through its subsidiary company ACM Limited, EMB Group, is able to help


organisations transition to ISO 9001:2015. ACM is UKAS certification body providing certification services for a number of international standards, including ISO9001, ISO 14001, ISO 22000, ISO 27001, ISO 50001 and OHSAS 18001. In addition to a wide portfolio of certification services local in the UK


and overseas, ACM provides a full calendar of workshops and training including IRCA approved certification training programmes for existing and new clients.


Sean Read, executive director of EMB Group


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