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Michelle Cox-Coley, our Operations Director Social Care England, and Cat Lambkin, our Assistant HR Officer in Gloucester, took on the challenge of swimming a mile across Lake Windermere at the beginning of June. They both undertook gruelling regular training on top of their busy work and personal lives.

They finished the swim in 1hr and 7mins, which is all the more impressive when you know they are both beginners!

Congratulations to both of them on this amazing feat.

The Care Workers’ Charity supports care workers by providing crisis grants to people experiencing unforeseen or life-changing circumstances, such as bereavement, illness, or injury who have no resources to meet associated costs which could include funeral expenses, moving home, travel to hospital expenses and home repairs.

If you want to find out more about the charity and the support they can offer, visit their website www.thecareworkerscharity.org.uk

By now everyone should be aware of the vision and values you have helped us to set ourselves. You should be seeing them referred to in supervisions and our operational policies.

We have created a new Values video for all our new joiners and you can watch it here: http://bit.ly/ICGourvalues

In early June, Care at Home, our Domiciliary Care Service in Cheltenham, welcomed colleagues past and present to a get together to celebrate their 30th birthday. Everyone enjoyed the catch-up, reminiscing and swapping stories. And they had even more to celebrate a few weeks later as Clare Harper won the Awesome Administrator Award in the Home Care section of the Stars of Social Care Awards earlier in June, and Katie Eckworth was Highly Commended in the Inspirational Home Care Worker Award.

“The passion and commitment Clare has for her organisation is evident, having worked for Care at Home for 19 years. Her efficiency and knowledge of the service is outstanding and has significantly contributed to positive outcomes for the company and the people they support. Her flexible approach and dedication to care is demonstrated by undertaking training in her own time and has even extended to covering shifts during Covid and beyond. A truly Awesome Administrator!”

We would also like to congratulate Scott Jones, the Care at Home Team, Sarah Rankin and Michelle Cox-Coley (all from Care at Home and our Supported Living teams) who were also finalists in the Stars of Social Care Awards.

We were also delighted to have a number of staff named as finalists in the Learning Disability & Autism Awards: Naima Dodd (Ocean Community Services), Antonia Smith (Mantley Chase), the William St team, and Michelle Cox-Coley (Supported Living). James Murfin, one of the people we support, was also highly commended in the People’s Award for all the volunteering work he does around our Gloucester office.

We have seen some amazing examples of services working to improve their outdoor areas to make the spaces even more enjoyable for everyone.

To reward these efforts and encourage others to get involved, we are running a competition for the best new garden development. Whether this be planting new flowers beds, establishing a vegetable patch, or decorating an outdoor space.

To enter just send pics of your entry to marketing@iriscaregroup.co.uk by August 31st.

There will be separate prizes for best entries from a) supported living homes, b) residential homes and c) hospitals and Beechwood College.

The prize in each category will be £100 of B&Q garden vouchers to spend making even more improvements.

Fancy naming our newsletter?

Send your suggestions for the newsletter’s new name to marketing@iriscaregroup.co.uk by 31st August, and the one that we like the most will win a £100 Amazon voucher

Competition Terms & Conditions can be viewed in the marketing sections of Sharepoint and Staffnet.

Here’s a flavour of some of the events that we have coming up over the next few months: