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08/10/2008
Parcelforce Delivers Hospice Help
Royal Mail workers have been busy delivering something different recently - much needed garden maintenance at a care facility for life-limited children.
Parcelforce Worldwide employees have been digging in at the Northern Ireland Children's Hospice in Newtownabbey to spruce up a community garden.
Fifteen volunteers, a mix of managers, drivers and office workers from the Parcelforce Worldwide base in Belfast worked wonders transforming an area overgrown with weeds to a beautiful landscaped garden requiring minimal upkeep in the future.
The project was part of Parcelforce Worldwide's National Community Team Challenge, in which more than 300 staff have been giving up their own time to help their local communities.
The challenge was devised to encourage Parcelforce colleagues to work more closely as teams - with local people benefiting as a result. Most Parcelforce Worldwide people work shifts and the project is aimed at giving them an opportunity to get together.
Iain Groark, Parcelforce Worldwide's Head of Corporate Social Responsibility, said: "The enthusiasm from our staff to support their local community has been inspiring. With over 300 of them giving up their own time, we hope that long and valuable relationships will develop between our depots and the community groups they are working with."
Parcelforce provided each team with £500 to help with costs and preparation. Sean Magorrian, Area General Manager for Parcelforce in Northern Ireland said: "This has been a very worthwhile project and we hope it will make a difference to the staff, children and their families at the Hospice."
(BMcC)
Parcelforce Worldwide employees have been digging in at the Northern Ireland Children's Hospice in Newtownabbey to spruce up a community garden.
Fifteen volunteers, a mix of managers, drivers and office workers from the Parcelforce Worldwide base in Belfast worked wonders transforming an area overgrown with weeds to a beautiful landscaped garden requiring minimal upkeep in the future.
The project was part of Parcelforce Worldwide's National Community Team Challenge, in which more than 300 staff have been giving up their own time to help their local communities.
The challenge was devised to encourage Parcelforce colleagues to work more closely as teams - with local people benefiting as a result. Most Parcelforce Worldwide people work shifts and the project is aimed at giving them an opportunity to get together.
Iain Groark, Parcelforce Worldwide's Head of Corporate Social Responsibility, said: "The enthusiasm from our staff to support their local community has been inspiring. With over 300 of them giving up their own time, we hope that long and valuable relationships will develop between our depots and the community groups they are working with."
Parcelforce provided each team with £500 to help with costs and preparation. Sean Magorrian, Area General Manager for Parcelforce in Northern Ireland said: "This has been a very worthwhile project and we hope it will make a difference to the staff, children and their families at the Hospice."
(BMcC)
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As part of a vast UK-wide Consignia cost-cutting programme 140 jobs are to go in Northern Ireland. Consignia said on Monday March 25 that the jobs will go at three Parcel Force depots in north Belfast, Londonderry and Portadown. These depots will close and will leave just one operating Parcelforce depot in Belfast’s Harbour Industrial Estate.
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