Fresh News November 2016

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The magazine for Morrisons colleagues

Smart calendar Important dates for your Christmas diary

Our new uniforms arrive in store

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Recruitment • New charity partner • Christmas online and much more…

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Looking good for our customers Making sure our colleagues look smart and professional is all part of making a great first impression and serving our customers better. By the end of the month all our store colleagues will be wearing their new uniform. Read more on p12 & 13

Morrisons Makes it Our Christmas TV adverts show how Morrisons Makes it at Christmas.

The focus is on gathering family and friends together as we show how our colleagues help to make those unforgettable moments that make Christmas special.

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Making your way at Morrisons Whether you want to move up, or get even better at what you do, you can develop your career through Career Conversations and our new recruitment site Morrisons.jobs.

Read more on p8 & 9

Choose our new charity partner The search is on for our new charity partner.

Community Champions and colleagues have chosen our finalists, and in January’s Your Say survey, you’ll get to vote for either CLIC Sargent or Age UK to be our next Raise a Smile partner.

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5 Virtual Christmas Christmas at Morrisons.com is bigger and better this year. Our website is easier to shop, we’ve a bigger seasonal range and more delivery slots. They’re filling fast so book early. Read more on p6

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Our cover stars this month are from left to right Matt Oakley, Tony Thomas and Karen Levene at Herne Bay. Fresh News is produced by Morrisons Company Communications and designed by scarlettabbott – 01904 633399 | scarlettabbott.co.uk

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Welcome to our festive

We all have an important part to play in making our business a great place to work and shop.

It’s especially true at this time of year, so we’ve asked colleagues across the business, and at all levels, to share their thoughts and opinions on the great things we’re doing to make Christmas for our customers.

Look out for our colleague comments throughout this issue.

7 Nutmeg 8 New recruitment website 10 Christmas calendar 12 New uniforms 14 World Foods 15 New charity partner 16 Giving something back 18 The social

Get in touch Here’s how you can contact us:

Save a stamp and post internally to Company Communications.

Email your stories and pictures to company.communications @morrisonsplc.co.uk To sign up to Colleague Facebook email facebook@ morrisonsplc.co.uk

rom 7th November our Christmas adverts are on TV (p4). Look out for store colleagues like Martin Sobye, Bakery and Cake Shop Manager from our Newquay store. Martin answered a Colleague Facebook ad, and is now on national TV. Martin says: “I sent in a video explaining how I inspire my team to be creative and enjoy their job, and it went from there. Filming the advert was a really great experience and my family can’t wait to see me on TV.” Martin isn’t the only one looking good.

His colleagues in our Newquay store have received their new uniforms (p12 & 13).

Customer Assistant Marcia Menhenett says: “I love the polo shirts, they’re so comfortable and easy to look after and the jackets are a much better fit. We’ve had customers telling us how smart we all look.”

In the run-up to Christmas, colleagues will be swapping their shirts for Christmas jumpers and Nutmeg has a great value range for everyone (p7).

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your career, your way There are lots of opportunities at Morrisons, either for you to get even better at your job or take the next step up the career ladder. We recently introduced Career Conversations and now there’s our new Morrisons.jobs website.

Store Manager Michael Cliff says: “At Newquay we support our colleagues the way they want to be supported.

Some want to train to be Flexible managers, others are happy Benefits doing a good job where they Make your money are, and we also support go further this Christmas by signing up for Flexible colleagues who, from time Benefits like cycle-to-work. to time, decide to step Log on to mymorrisons.com down from senior roles for for details and apply different personal reasons.”

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Ready for Christmas

To help you get ready for Christmas, we’ve got a special pull-out calendar so you’ll have all the important dates to hand.

There’s a lot to be excited about this year.

We’ve everything our customers need for Christmas and fun stuff for you to get involved in too, let’s make this Christmas our best one yet.

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The latest news from right around our business.

On Monday 7th November, we’re launching our Christmas TV adverts showing how Morrisons Makes it for our customers at Christmas. hristmas is our busiest trading period of the year, and a great opportunity to encourage more customers into our stores. That’s why it’s more important than ever that we let people know about our good quality, seasonal food that’s great value for money and, of course, our great customer service.

“Christmas is a very special time for our customers.

It’s all about tradition, joy and gatherings with family and friends. As food makers and shopkeepers, we’re well placed to help our customers make it a wonderful occasion,” says Andy Atkinson, Group Marketing & Customer Director.

Our festive point of sale, which features The Best Red Christmas Wreath at £15, will make it easy for our customers to find our Christmas products in store.

We’ll also be promoting our seasonal offers on social media, in the press and through our Christmas TV adverts, which launch on 7th November.

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Bev ? DeanS, Clacton On her way to work at 4.30am, Bev found an elderly man outside the store who was very confused and distressed. Bev treated him with care and respect, and managed to get him home safely.

Look out for our Christmas adverts on TV from 7th November

Fresh food, friendly service

Our colleagues are taking a starring role in the adverts.

We see our Bakers adding the finishing touches to in-storebaked mince pies, our Butchers presenting our freshly prepared turkey crown and Deli colleagues putting together Party Platters, as well as Fruit and Veg colleagues handing over fresh festive produce as our customers shop for Christmas – all with a joyful and friendly smile!

Mark Edwards, Neath Mark received a Thank You cheque when a customer wrote in praising his great service. Mark cashed his voucher in for food, which he generously donated and delivered to the Port Talbot Food Bank.

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award-winners We spoke to two colleagues who you’ll see in our Christmas ads.

I had the time of my life filming the adverts and seeing behind the scenes. So much time and effort goes into getting the advert just right to show off our great food and service. I know our regular customers will love it and it’ll put Redcar on the map!”

Fay Dunn-Housbey, customer assistant – meat, Redcar

It was an amazing experience from start to finish.

Instead of a script, we were asked to greet the customers just as we would in store, so the adverts genuinely show the great service our customers experience when they visit our Bakery counter.”

Martin Sobye, Bakery & Cake Shop Manager, Newquay

Industry awards show that we’re getting things right for our customers, and that our award-winning products are the best our customers can buy.

And that’s something we can all be proud of.

t the International Wine Challenge our wines won over 100 awards and we were crowned Supermarket of the Year for the second year running, thanks to our dedicated and skilled colleagues. Now we’re telling our customers just how good we are with a new TV advert showing why Morrisons is the place to go for superb wines at great value prices this Christmas.

“We want customers to think again about our wine offer.

We want them to be confident that they can count on us for great wines for special occasions like Christmas,” says Mark Jarman, Senior Trading Manager – Wine Sourcing.

It’s not just wine that we’re winning awards for.

Thanks to our café colleagues’ hard work, we won the 2016 National Café Chain of the Year award at the Café Quality Food Awards.

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“Customers are really starting to notice the awards and talk to us about them.”

ScoT Robinson, Cleethorpes

The award is judged on everything from Fairtrade and ethical policies to customer service and product range.

Our Beers, Wines and Spirits Team were also recognised for their great work at the Retail Industry Awards, where we were named Drinks Retailer of the Year. “Over the past year we’ve listened to our customers and responded quickly with some big changes, including craft beers and local ales that are selling well. We’re also introducing new spirits, like American whiskeys that are becoming popular.

This award shows we’re heading in the right direction,” says Dan Povey, Interim Category Director – Beers, Wines and Spirits.

Steak-ing our reputation arlier this year we won Meat and Fish Retailer of the Year. We’ve followed this up with Gold for our British Breed Shorthorn Cross at the World Steak Challenge. This is the breed that produces The Best British 21-Day-Matured Dry-Aged Shorthorn Sirloin Steak, which is now on sale in 115 of our stores.

Let our customers know about our award-winning products this Christmas, and look out for our wine adverts, which are on TV from 1st November.

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Lisa Booth, Winsford Manufacturing Lisa worked hard before and during the British Retail Consortium audit which covers everything from hygiene and technical procedures to maintenance and training.

As a result, the site kept its AA Grade.

Claire Houghton and Rachel FaRey, Binley A regular customer’s elderly mother became ill in store.

Claire and Rachel looked after the lady so well that her son wrote to David saying they’re ‘a credit to Morrisons’.

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Virtual Christmas

“We all felt so festive last year in our Nutmeg jumpers. I can’t wait to wear it again!”

Andrea Dixon, Thornton-CleveleyS

An easier-to-navigate website, a bigger Christmas range and more delivery slots – Christmas this year will be even more convenient for our online customers. orrisons.com is celebrating third Christmas, and M its we expect it to be the biggest yet, with our Online Drivers delivering more Christmas products to more customers than ever before.

This year, our Christmas range has 300 more seasonal products than in 2015. Just as in our stores, there’s a bigger gift range, and more wrapping paper and cards. For customers who want to make Christmas extra special, there’s a page where they can find The Best all in one place.

A change for the better

We’ve made changes to our Morrisons.com website, after listening to our customers, to make it easier and quicker for them to find the products they want to buy.

Teejay Bailey, Online Manager – Customer Service, says: “There are more seasonal pages, including a ‘stock early’ page, where our customers can find

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festive products with longer shelf lives, to buy now and put away for Christmas, just as they can in store.

It’s something our customers told us they wanted, so we’ve responded and made it happen.”

Customers can shop early for Christmas, book a delivery slot and add to their basket until at least 48 hours before delivery. They can also be confident that their Christmas centrepieces will arrive looking as good as they do on our site.

“We’ve worked hard with the Trading Team to make sure we get the packaging just right for online.

For example, we’re using extra cardboard sleeves to make sure our cakes aren’t damaged,” adds Teejay.

Book early

Delivery slots are available up to 3pm on Christmas Eve. Book yours soon if you’re shopping online for Christmas this year, they’re filling up fast!

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Joy, Lake Julie introduced an elderly customer who was very lonely to a local community meeting, which she now attends regularly.

The customer’s friend, who lives away and was worried about her, wrote in saying Julie ‘went well above her duties’.

Christine Bauer, Alness An elderly customer who regularly shops at the store didn’t have enough money to pay for her shopping.

Christine made up the difference with her own money so that the lady got everything she wanted.

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Christmas jumpers, children’s party wear and Christmas gifts – for a fun, festive time, Nutmeg has it all. t’s the must-have item for the festive season and even more of our stores are stocking our bright and cheerful Nutmeg Christmas jumpers.

“Sales of Christmas jumpers have soared in recent years, so it’s important that we’re stocking a Nutmeg range to cater for all ages and sizes,” says Michelle Radford, Merchandiser – Nutmeg Essentials.

“We’re also making it easy for our customers to shop for our Christmas jumpers by putting them at the front of stores as well as in our seasonal aisle,” Michelle adds.

We’ve something for all ages to get excited about.

Our men’s and women’s Christmas jumpers feature cuddly polar bears, elves, Christmas puds and more. There’s a great choice for kids and babies too. As well as our Nutmeg designs, we’ve character jumpers and T-shirts that younger children love, like Peppa Pig, Paw Patrol and Lego™.

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Derek Morris, Stockton RDC While on annual leave, Derek went along to the site’s charity car boot sale (p19), which was very busy. He saw that the site team needed help and, although he was on holiday, helped out by filling the stalls with stock.

Feeling festive A lot of thought has gone into our Christmas Nutmeg range to give it a festive feel, like our musical Christmas jumpers and women’s red and white Fair Isle knitted leggings with matching jumper.

Nutmeg IN ALL STORES For the first time, we have Nutmeg babywear clothing and essentials available for customers to buy in all our stores.

“Our Nutmeg clothing range is so popular with our customers that we’re on track to become one of the UK’s top ten childrenswear retailers by the end of the year,” says Michelle.

If Nutmeg is new to your store, remember to let your customers know about it

Join in the fun We’re raising money for Sue Ryder with our Dress Festive Day on Thursday 1st December, so get your jumper early.

You can also wear your Christmas jumper to work from Friday 2nd December until Christmas Eve. *For health and safety, and food hygiene reasons, some colleagues will have to wear uniform – although everyone can take part by wearing Christmas socks!

Chris Thirkettle, Anlaby A customer wanted breakfast but the café hadn’t opened. Chris gave him a coffee, then served him breakfast ten minutes before opening time.

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your way at Morrisons Everybody wants to do a job they enjoy; it means job satisfaction and a better experience for your customers and colleagues. There’s lots of help available so you can find the role you want or do your current role even better, like Career Conversations or our new recruitment website, Morrisons.jobs e’ve created a new website, “W Morrisons.jobs, for anyone wanting to start a career with us or colleagues who are unsure about how to take their next step, whether that’s a promotion or developing in their current role,” says Vicki Haworth, People Manager – Resourcing. “It’s full of stories and useful information about what it’s like to work in Logistics, Manufacturing, Hilmore, stores, or on the road.

“The launch of the new site will show colleagues how they can have a fulfilling career with us.”

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“On the website, colleagues talk about how they’ve developed their careers and the tools and support they’ve received along the way. Our people make Morrisons. There are lots of ways to have a great career here, so we’ve designed the site to give you a clear idea of where you can take your career, and how to go about it,” says Vicki.

Just visit Morrisons.jobs The website is going live this month.

If you see a job on there that you’re interested in, talk to your Line Manager and they’ll help you with the next steps.

“There’s also an Early Careers section, where you can apply for a place on our Graduate Scheme, which is open to degreeholders across Retail, Manufacturing, Logistics, Corporate, Trading, Finance, and Technology.

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promotion Careers are personal, and many of our colleagues are happy to remain in their current role, like Sarah Dawson, Meat and Fish Manager at our Welwyn Garden City store.

“The launch of the new site will show colleagues how they can have a fulfilling career with us,” says Lyndsay Holland, People Manager – Early Careers. “There are dozens of positions for graduates across the business. It’s a great chance to tap into the talent we already have, and make sure we keep delivering excellent customer service well into the future.

“Lots of colleagues join us straight from school, but don’t always see us as a long-term option because they don’t know how much they can achieve here.

We’re keen to keep hold of that talent, and help them develop their skills.

“From January, we’ll also be taking applications for Sponsored Degree Apprenticeships, where we sponsor school leavers through university.

By enrolling on the programme, colleagues who’ve just left school will be able to work with us while studying for a degree in Business Management from Bradford University.

“And next year we’re planning to roll out over one thousand apprenticeships to make sure we’re keeping this young talent pool topped up. Look out for more information.”

Caught on camera Take a look behind the scenes at the stars of our recruitment website as they prepared for the photoshoot:

Since joining the store in 1993, Sarah has held many roles, including in the bakery, café and the petrol station. Now she’s finally found her calling.

“It’s great that we’ve got the freedom to arrange the displays as we want, and bring in different lines. I’m very proud of how the fish counter looks – and it was lovely to show that to David when he visited our store recently,” she says.

“As a keen cook, I love sharing recipes with customers. I ask them which dishes they like to make, and make sure what we stock reflects that. That’s something I’m always looking to perfect as I try to get better at what I do.”

Everything in its right place Sarah is a pillar of the community in Pansanger, where her store is based.

“As a member of the Christian church here, I’m involved in youth work and I’m on the Leadership team of the church. I’m also a member of the Chaplaincy team at Luton Airport. So with these out-of-work commitments I’m thankful to have a job with a good work-life balance,” she adds.

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christmas events

6-8th November

Christmas decorations and point of sale in stores

7th November

Christmas TV ad launch We show our customers how Morrisons Makes it at Christmas gatherings with the focus on Family, Food and Tradition

11th November

Raise a Smile Cup deadline closes for entry Enter at sueryder.org/ raiseasmile

14th November

Boxing Day and New Year’s Day rotas confirmed

18th November 21st November – 11th December

Sue Ryder Fundraising Focus

21st November

Black Five Days begins From 19th November

hether you’re in store, on site or in Hilmore, there are dates for your diary to help us make our customers’ Christmas extra special. Pull out this page and pin it to your noticeboard so you never miss a date.

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Five days’ worth of incredible offers around our stores

Teamwork

It’s our special festive Fresh News, and as you can imagine, we’ve got a lot planned from now until Christmas Day.

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Hilmore colleagues supporting in store

Raise a Smile Cup! 28th November

25th November

Free mince pies with Sue Ryder

Black Friday Keep an eye out in store for some amazing deals

24th November

Mastercraft final in Hilmore

28th November

The Best Party Food launch Our new premium range has lots of party food, such as Gin and Tonic jelly shots, to help make our customers’ Christmas

28th November

#GivingTuesday A global day of giving

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8th December

Store and Hilmore Christmas lunches

19th December

Christmas opening hours begin

Just one way of saying ‘thank you’ for all your hard work

12th December

Extra deliveries go live 5th December

2nd December

Sue Ryder charity bag packs

Food to Order opens

21st December

14th December

Order up to 7pm for Food to Order Christmas Eve collection

24th December

Christmas Eve

1st December

Christmas jumpers Swap your shirts for Christmas jumpers for Sue Ryder; luckily Nutmeg has a great-looking, good-value range for everyone

Thank you

Order up to 7pm for Food to Order New Year’s Eve collection

Our last online delivery slot is 2-3pm and Christmas Food to Order collection date

7th December

Site Christmas lunches Just one way of saying ‘thank you’ for all your hard work

16th December

Charity raffle draw

6th December

Free drink and mince pies for senior citizens in our cafés

for everything you do

Find out more about these events and activities from your manager.

25th December

Merry Christmas!

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Free Boxing Day and New Year’s Day breakfast Hogmanay New Year’s Food to Order collection date January Sale Your Say survey

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By the end of the month, all our stores will be looking good in their new uniforms.

Smart and professional We’re making our stores even better places for our customers to shop in lots of different ways. The excessive clutter has gone, we’re opening up our Market Street counters, and our pricing and point of sale messages are clear and simple to understand, all of which makes Morrisons a better place to work and shop.

Specialist cleaning companies are keeping our stores looking great, and now our colleagues are looking their best too. By the end of November, all store colleagues will be wearing their new uniform.

“It’s part of our plan to make a great first impression and serve our customers better, which also includes new customer service desks and, in larger stores, Greeters who welcome our customers at busy times. That’s why it was so important to get the uniform just right, and why it’s taken longer than we’d hoped to get them into stores,” says Rebekah Wilson, Support Office Advisor.

It’s comfortable, warm and, apart from a few teething problems with sizing, everyone really likes it.

Customers seem impressed too and say it’s easier to find a manager thanks to the different coloured shirts.”

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Winning pictures Take a photo of your team in store wearing their new uniform and share it on Colleague Facebook with the tag #NewUniform. The best photo from each region will win a cash prize for your store’s social fund.

The new uniform not only looks great but our colleagues tell us it’s more comfortable, easier to clean and makes them feel more professional.

“All these improvements have come from listening and responding to what our customers and colleagues tell us. Thank you to everyone who’s trialled the new uniform over the past few months and told us what they liked and how we could make the uniform even better,” adds Rebekah.

The new uniform fits really well and I like the jacket with zipped pockets.

We’ve had lots of customers saying how smart we all look.

And when you look smart, you feel better.”

Suzanne Grant, Admin and Cash Office Manager, Selby

Everyone is loving the new uniform, it’s so practical.

It’s comfier, warmer and much easier to work in.

I’ve had customers telling me how smart we all look.”

Olivia Coffey, Checkout Team Leader, Brighton

It’s much more comfortable to work in than the old uniforms. We were part of the trial and I’m pleased to see that the team listened to us and added pockets into the jacket.”

Jonathan Smith, Customer Assistant, Selby

Putting it to good use We’re donating our old uniform to The Salvation Army. When you start wearing your new uniform, please bring your old shirts, blouses and jackets into store so we can recycle them for a good cause.

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“At our Rio carnival we raised an amazing £3712.70.”

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Oh the weather outside is frightful... but we brought the colours of the Caribbean to five of our London stores where customers sampled our World Foods range in a carnival atmosphere! raditionally, carnivals are T huge street parties that celebrate African and Caribbean culture. Noor Ali, Category Manager for World Foods & Free From, says: “We wanted to bring that sense of community to Morrisons to promote our World Foods range.

“We worked with five stores with a strong African and Caribbean community and asked suppliers to showcase key offers across those ranges, such as Samai Plantain Chips, Island Sun Coconut Water and Supermalt.

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“We also arranged steel This brought more customers bands and raffle into store, and sales were up prizes for compared to the previous week. even more Peckham Store Manager Our stores in Peckham, atmosphere, James Gore said: Croydon, Thamesmead, Stratford but it was up to “It’s great working and Wood Green chose how they the stores to for Morrisons celebrated carnival by stocking decide where to because we’re the World Foods products their organise the given the freedom customers love, like Port Royal activities, which to stock more of Patties and KA Drinks. charities to support, what our customers want, what to stock and and we can set up activities we how much to order in. know our customers will enjoy.

They chose how to celebrate “Just as importantly, we can their carnival in a way that reflected choose the charities we their own diverse communities.” raise money for – like the £500 we donated to the It’s your party! family of Fola Orebiyi, the younger brother As well as the food sampling and the of a colleague and steel band, customers in our Peckham a victim of knife store enjoyed home baking, face painting, crime, so they can hip-hop dancing, a DJ, a dominoes commemorate him tournament and even bike repair in the community.” lessons to raise money for charity.

new charity partner

Choose our New charity partner Our partnership with Sue Ryder comes to an end in February 2017, and we want you to choose our next charity partner.

ogether, we’re on course to raise more than £7 million for Sue Ryder in just three years.

And we haven’t finished yet. Over Christmas we’re planning lots of festive fundraising that you can get involved with, see p16. We’re also thinking about the future, and we want you to choose a new charity for us to partner with.

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In June almost 100 organisations applied to become our next charity partner.

We narrowed this down to 10 charities by asking important questions, like: Do you work throughout the UK?

Do you benefit and support people who live near our stores and sites?

Do you have great ideas for working and supporting all our stores and sites?

Do you have specific projects we can fund?

Our Community Champions took part in a telephone meeting to find out more about some of the best charities that applied and help shortlist six. These six charities visited Hilmore to present to a panel of colleagues from across the business, who chose our two finalists – Age UK and CLIC Sargent.

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provides companionship, advice and support to older people. With us they want to end loneliness for 250,000 older people across every Morrisons community by funding ‘Get Togethers’ – activities and groups for lonely older people, and an online Friendship Community.

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supports children and young people who are diagnosed with cancer, and their families.

As well as expanding their Cancer Care Team, they want to fund a project where families of children with cancer are given financial help to cope with the additional costs of cancer.

what happens next?

You’ll be able to cast your vote in January’s Your Say survey.

To help you decide, we’ll be telling you more about Age UK and CLIC Sargent, and their projects, in the coming weeks. Keep an eye out in stores, sites, and on Colleague Facebook or email raise.a.smile@morrisonsplc.co.uk

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Lucky Christmas Keep an eye out for our £1 Christmas scratchcards

every penny count

There are three months left of our charity partnership and with Christmas on the way, let’s raise as much as we can, after all, every penny counts! ue Ryder is there for when a person needs care the most, and they help to make it as painless as possible for their loved ones too, like Clifton Community Champion, Sue Whitehead.

Sue’s sister-in-law was supported by her local Sue Ryder hospice for two years before she died from cancer.

Sue says: “Their care was exceptional and made her last years as worthwhile as possible. They showed us nothing but love and were like an extension of our family.”

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Get involved today: • Sign up your team for the Raise a Smile cup • Organise your own fundraising event • Take part in December’s festive fundraising • Support your Community Champion Read Sue’s full story sueryder.org/makeitcount

You’re our heroes!

Elf Morris is a fun stocking filler for Christmas.

Look out for him in store

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Thank you for celebrating the incredible work of Sue Ryder’s nurses and hospice staff during Hospice Care Week. From tombolas, wonderful wigs and treasure hunts, to super heroes and bag packs, your fun fundraising made a big difference.

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We’ve donated £250,000, from carrier bag sales to Dementia UK. The money will be used by University College London’s Dementia Research Centre to fund research into dementia, and treatment and care for those living with the condition.

Sue Ryder’s ‘Raise a Smile’ team will support your fundraising every step of the way and they would love to hear from you.

morrisons@sueryder.org

Sorry if we didn’t mention you. We do read everything that you send to Fresh News, but space is limited. Thanks for all your emails, letters and photos – please keep them coming!

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giving something back

Your fundraising stories Tewkesbury Duty Managers got caked raising a total of £445 by taking part in the South West Challenge.

Colleagues at Beccles, and Horsforth (pictured) went through the pain barrier, raising more than £1,000 and £430 respectively, with sponsored leg waxes.

Spalding’s Gail Ridley organised a rock ‘n’ roll night that raised £1,200.

grant funding Malvern presented a cheque for £4,200 to What Makes You Different Makes You Beautiful for a sensory mat to help people with learning disabilities.

Thanks to the South West region for completing the Round the World Challenge, raising £52,000. Special congratulations to Porth in first place!

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Tavistock raised almost £1,450 by selling memory balloons.

The Hilmore Harriers successfully ran the Great North Run, raising £1,900!

A local Air Cadet group packed bags at Cardiff raising £592.

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Cransley Hospice received a cheque for £3,500 presented by Kettering colleagues, for a specialist pain therapy mattress.

Youth-Link Dundee helps vulnerable and disadvantaged people. The £7,508 cheque presented

by Dundee store will be used for activities and equipment.

Exeter presented a cheque for £3,480 to Living Options Devon, which helps people with physical and sensory disabilities.

MedEquip4Kids received a cheque for £6,875 from Whitefield to buy medical equipment.

Janice Walls climbed Criffel in the Scottish Highlands for Sue Ryder raising £150.

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foundation Giving grants to charities and making your fundraising go further with match funding

A fun day at Sheldon raised £1,400.

A Mexicanthemed day at Wolverhampton raised £1,250.

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Age UK Hammersmith and Fulham received £5,702 to support older people in the local community.

Grangewood School is using the £14,995 cheque that Hatch End presented, to create a new outdoor play area for children with severe disabilities.

Burton handed Scropton Riding for the Disabled a cheque for £10,000 to provide lessons for people with disabilities.

Defence Medical Welfare Service received £19,750 to run mental health first aid training courses.

Rotherham United Community Sports Trust received £9,140 to help local children, from Rotherham Bramley.

Taunton presented £25,000 to Compass Disability to help them refurbish a disused building into a Wellbeing Centre.

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Colleagues at Inverurie celebrated 160 years’ service recently when eight colleagues each clocked up 20 years with the company.

Stanground colleagues gave regular customers Mr and Mrs Patman, a bouquet, card and chocolates to celebrate their 71st wedding anniversary.

Carol Gill, Cannock, put together individual lunch boxes for a group of war veterans to enjoy on their trip to Normandy.

Brian Plant, whose brother David Plant worked at Colne Manufacturing and recently died of a heart attack, donated a defibrillator to the site in David’s memory.

Cowdenbeath Butcher Kenneth Scott, donned his kilt for the 26-mile Kiltwalk, which raised £360 for Poppy Scotland.

Clifton helped to fuel the Notts Women Runners by providing water, energy bars and crisps for their recent 10K run.

Deeside held a Health & Wellbeing event, giving colleagues advice on healthy eating and living well.

Leighton Buzzard kept 150 children at a local church holiday club fed and watered, by donating squash and biscuits.

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Kilmarnock helped two local charities by donating crisps, sweets and juice for Kilmarnock Kinship Carers children’s party, and food to Killie Can Cycles.

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Creating wheatsheaves for local harvest festivals is a great way for our bakers to show off their craft skills.

Ted Davenport and Jon Sharratt, Speke, donated a sheaf to Liverpool Cathedral. Steven Price, Southport, baked for two local schools, and a local church benefited from Wednesbury Bakers Richard Jones, Stuart Brown and Bakery Manager Steve Shervington’s creation.

A couple love our products so much they asked Melton Mowbray store to supply all the food for their 250 wedding guests.

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Above: Wednesbury

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A memory walk and balloon release organised by Rhyl store raised more than £4,000 for a local dementia group.

West Denton Community Champion Sharon Brown (pictured), showed off the giant cookies that Chelsea Richards, Cake Shop, made for a local school’s coffee morning.

Dumfries colleagues put their heart into raising money for a store defibrillator and have already completed the training.

Whitefield Community Champion, Rochelle Gardner, donated refreshments to Communic8te, a local group for people who are deaf or hard of hearing.

Helen Harrison, Gadbrook, abseiled down Liverpool Cathedral raising more than £1,000 for a local hospice.

Charities, including Sue Ryder and Butterwick Hospice shared the £6,600 that Stockton Regional Distribution Centre raised with its car boot sale.

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