The colleague newsletter Issue 1
Click here to find out more about David Bibby and the senior management team at Everyone Active
A WORD FROM OUR MANAGING
DIRECTOR
Welcome to the first edition of the Everyone Active colleague newsletter, which we’ve launched to keep colleagues up to date with the organisation’s development as a whole and celebrate and showcase the fantastic work you all do up and down the country.
At board level, we believe our colleagues are our strongest asset. We want to show how much you impact our success as a business, as well as sharing relevant news which might influence or inspire your role.
In 2022, we rebounded from the significant challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic and delivered fantastic participation figures across our wide range of facilities.
With your support:
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More than 58 milllion visits were made to our centres, up from 49 million in 2019
Nearly 9 million people have visited at least one of our facilities across the country
We have gained six new contracts and 36 centres since April 2022
It is a credit to colleagues that we have recovered so strongly following the pandemic, given we are also tackling the challenges posed by a significant increase in utility costs, an issue impacting the whole country.
Once more I’d like to reiterate our thanks for your hard work in 2022 and let’s look forward to even more success in 2023.
Kind regards, David
COLLEAGUE SURVEY
As we look to the future, we want to continue to attract great people like you to work with Everyone Active, enable them to perform at their best and make them feel valued. With that in mind, we want to thank everyone for supporting the culture project so wholeheartedly and update you on what’s happening next.
We undertook the culture project because we wanted to really understand our existing culture, including what helps and hinders us. We were supported by a specialist external agency, Culture Consultancy, to ensure we were robust in our review and thinking, while also learning best practice from other organisations.
At the heart of the culture project was our colleague survey, which we had an excellent response to. The survey was put together in order to give us insights into how you, our colleagues, feel the business is run and where improvements can be made. Over the coming months, we will be taking our key learnings from this and implementing them into the running of the business.
EVERYONE IS IN TRAINING
We
Everyone purpose great pride our members communities
will further invest in colleague training and development programmes to ensure we’re helping all colleagues to progress
We management programme and future that ensures good management cultural
Everyone Active’s purpose and take pride in serving members and communities
Organisational processes and reporting requirements, demonstrated by colleagues’ emphasis on health and safety
Our strong commercial mindset that works alongside understanding the needs of our local authority partners and members
Key initiatives we want to develop:
will develop a management development programme for all current future managers ensures fairness and management in the cultural development of our teams
We will create a dedicated process by which colleagues will be able to communicate directly with the Senior Leadership Team and vice versa
We will celebrate you! Whether that’s the work you’re doing or the charity challenges our colleagues take on. We want to enhance our colleague engagement and hear from YOU!
From the survey, we learned that colleagues have a clear understanding of:
COLLEAGUE BENEFITS
FREE MEMBERSHIP
to our centres nationwide. In the next month, we’ll be expanding the colleague membership to include a colleague’s partner and their children (up until they’re 18-years-old), at all facilities up and down the country. We will be in contact with further details in the next few weeks.
20% OFF
in-centre café and retail products.
For more information on our colleague benefits,
MEMBER
BENEFITS You
We are constantly looking at opportunities to add value to your role within Everyone Active. Here are a list of the current benefits we offer to our colleagues.
FREE ONLINE ACCESS
to all online classes, workouts and training plans.
25% OFF
sports coaching courses, swimming lessons and Fit For Sport activity camps for our colleagues’ children during school holidays.
MEMBER BENEFITS
You can also get access to exclusive colleague and member benefits , including reduced mobile tariffs with O2 and much more. Visit www.everyoneactive.com/ memberbenefits to find out more.
STUDENT FLEXI WORK
If you are a student and you want to work at a different centre whilst at university or at home, we will endeavour to offer you hours at another centre.
benefits, E-learning and the latest news, download the colleague app.
OUR VALUES
IS INCLUSIVE IS SUPPORTIVE
IS POSITIVE IS PROGRESSIVE
It’s our mission to encourage minutes of moderate
WHAT’S TO COME?
Thank you for reading the first edition of the colleague newsletter. We hope it has been helpful and shown you how important all colleagues are to Everyone Active’s success.
We will be publishing further editions later in the year, so keep an eye out! Here is a taster of the kind of content you can expect…
In future editions, we will:
• Celebrate the great work of colleagues and highlight the impact of their roles across the business
• Focus on new appointments and explain how they will positively impact Everyone Active
• Unveil a new scheme which will allow colleagues to communicate their ideas directly with the Senior Leadership Team
• Update on how colleagues are helping our charity partner, Dementia UK
• Communicate the fantastic work we are doing within local communities, our net zero ambitions and how we are performing as a business
And much more!
We’re lucky to have such passionate and hard-working colleagues, all of whom are the personification of our mission and values.
THANKS EVERYONE!
encourage more people to participate in 30 physical activity, five times a week.
If you have any questions about this newsletter or would like to offer any ideas about how we can improve it, please email: newsletter@everyoneactive.com