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HC-One makes free period products available to all staff
Britain’s largest care home operator, HC-One, has made free period products available to staff nationwide. HC-One staff now have access to free disposable and reusable period products courtesy of a partnership with award- winning social enterprise Hey Girls and distributor Lyreco – with every order matched with a donation to vulnerable community organisations Hey Girls works with companies across the UK in introducing period dignity schemes in the workplace, with every purchase matched with a donation to its network of more than 350 community partners. Organisations to benefit from the new partnership include refuges, foodbanks, and homeless shelters nationwide.
Anna Selby, director of kind care at HC- One, said: “We are really pleased to offer our colleagues environmentally friendly period products from Hey Girls. “We were drawn to working with Hey Girls in particular because they match each of our purchases with a donation to their community partners. We’re pleased to be able to support both our colleagues as well as Hey Girls’ crucial work in communities across the country.” Ailsa Colquhoun, partnerships and contracts manager at Hey Girls, said: “All of us at Hey Girls are delighted to partner with HC-One. “Partnerships like this have helped us donate more than 30 million period products to people in need over the last five years – and a partnership on this scale is going to make a huge difference to our community partner network.
“It is fantastic to see a company on the scale of HC-One stand up and join our fight for period dignity in the workplace and our overall battle to end period poverty in the UK once and for all.” Mark Gould, strategic account manager
at Lyreco, added: “All of us at Lyreco are fully behind Hey Girls’ mission to improve period dignity in the workplace for everyone in the UK.”
apetito wins RECOUP Award for Boomerang initiative
apetito has scooped the prestigious RECOUP Award for the Best Development/Innovation to Enhance Plastic Products for Recyclability or Re-use.
RECOUP’s Plastic Recycling Annual Awards
recognise and celebrate excellence in plastics resource efficiency and recycling. Care home meals provider apetito’s
Boomerang initiative sought to address the number of plastic trays that the company delivers to customers that ultimately go into kerbside recycling. In 2021, it launched the world’s first industrial scale, closed loop system, whereby its Wiltshire Farm Foods customers could hand back trays to its drivers. One hundred per cent of those trays were guaranteed to be recycled and turned into new trays. Since then, more than 15 million trays have
been returned and recycled into new trays. The company has extended its initiative into the healthcare sector, working with the NHS and with hospital caterers across the UK. Lee Sheppard, apetito’s director of
corporate affairs, policy and sustainability, November 2023
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Work completed on Yorkare’s Sleaford Manor
Work has completed on Sleaford Manor, a 67-bed, £6m development for Yorkare, located in Brough, Yorkshire.
The latest addition to Yorkare’s portfolio of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire care homes, Sleaford Manor was built by construction firm Hobson & Porter and is the seventh project the company has completed for Yorkare since 2015.
Facilities at Sleaford Manor include an in-house bar, dining rooms, a beauty salon and hairdressing room, a cinema, and outdoor terraces on each floor. The development is surrounded by landscaped gardens with private seating areas, as well as a bowling green and allotments. Nicola Anderson, marketing and community engagement manager at Yorkare, said: “Sleaford Manor is our tenth care home, which is a major milestone for us, and it’s already proving very popular with people in and around Sleaford who are looking for a special place to start the next chapter of their lives. “We’re already welcoming our first residents to Sleaford Manor and would urge anyone who would like to find out more about the outstanding levels of care offered and the luxury facilities, to get in contact with us.”
said: “We’re delighted to have been recognised in this way for our Boomerang initiative as for us, it’s all about doing business ‘the right way’. “We guarantee to recycle 100 per cent of the
trays we collect into new trays right here in the UK; compare that to household recycling where unfortunately nearly half of what you put into kerbside collections actually gets sent abroad for processing, with questionable results. “Every member of our team believes passionately in making a real difference, and the success of Boomerang is testament to the commitment we have all made.”
Mark Smee, director at Hobson & Porter, commented: “We’re very pleased to complete work on this latest development for Yorkare, which follows a string of successful projects in Louth, Cottingham, Cleethorpes Beverley, Hessle, and Hornsea. In addition, we’re currently working on another project for Yorkare at Haxby, which will complete next year. “Yorkare has established a strong reputation for pushing industry boundaries when it comes to the design and luxury fit out of its homes. This translates into exceptional homes in prominent locations and Sleaford Manor, which is much more akin to an up-market hotel than a care home, offers a stunning living environment where residents will aspire to live.”
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