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Solicitors feel the pinch to donate to wear it pink appeal! While baking cakes and wearing fancy dress to work are popular fundraising activities, staff at Buckles Solicitors LLP have adopted the ‘no pain, no gain’ approach! As part of their charity efforts to boost funds for wear it pink day – as part of October’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month – brave volunteers from across the business endured the pain of leg waxing, all for a good cause. In conjunction with a Dress Down Day, the hair-raising stunt resulted in a £240 donation to the good cause, with team assistant Debbie Carnell taking on the role of waxer to a number of game staff including trainee Amir Choudhary, solicitor Matthew Porter and Buckles Partner and head of company commercial, Nigel Moore.
Haines Watts Peterborough City supports Apprentices Haines Watts Peterborough City Ltd has welcomed two new apprentices, Jack Pacey and Francesca Mattock. Jack, who joined Haines Watts in August as a Trainee Accountant, straight after completing his A Levels, is studying for his AAT Apprenticeship with support from Anglia Professional Training Ltd. Francesca has just completed her GCSE’s, and joined the team in September. She is studying her Business Administration Level 2 Apprenticeship with the help of Peterborough Regional College. Mohammad Yousaf, the Managing Partner, said: “I am delighted that Haines Watts can support Jack and Francesca in their first roles since leaving school.”
Event success The Sodexo Employer Engagement Day was a great success with 25 visitors representing a range of industries including hospitality, construction and training organisations. The main objectives of the event were to: - Showcase the work HMP Peterborough does to improve employment prospects for those in their care - Widen opportunities for a developed and skilled workforce to positively engage in society - Develop collaborative partnership with employers to enable rehabilitation and restoration. Through collaborative engagement with employers, residents are able to take up opportunities for employment, voluntary work or develop their skills through training.
ABAX HIGHLY COMMENDED FOR STAFF ENGAGEMENT ABAX was recognised for putting employees at the heart of the company by being highly commended in the Staff Engagement category at the 2017 Peterborough Telegraph Business Awards. The awards honour the brightest and best of Peterborough’s business community, and celebrate the companies and people that are driving the local economy forward. Around 300 people came together at the Peterborough Arena in November for the ceremony hosted by Jo Fairley, the co-founder of Green & Black’s Chocolates. ABAX UK Chief Executive Chris Miller said: “People are key to ABAX’s success and we dedicate significant time and resource into supporting our staff so they are engaged, happy and motivated. “We aim to be seen as a recognised name and prominent employer of people from the Peterborough area, in particular giving people their first avenue into full time employment as the company values a person’s personality and desire to succeed as much as it does academic credentials. “This accolade demonstrates we are on the right path and we are all very proud to have been highly commended. We will now build on this, continue to listen and learn, so we have an even more engaged team.”
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As a technology company, ABAX mainly develops and supplies software to businesses operating vehicle fleets all over the UK. Recent recruitment took the number of ABAX employees at the Allia Future Business Centre in London Road to 70. This expansion has been triggered by growth on both a global and UK scale. In the most recent employee satisfaction survey, almost nine in 10 of employees said they feel proud to work for ABAX and more than four in five said they would highly recommend ABAX as an employer.
The ABAX team at the Peterborough Telegraph Business Awards 2017