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JS Journal Jan 1985 : i 'y& ^ lit1itt#?Mi m >*. %m -4 flf • „ y\ >»™«s "' And all the choirs sing... Sainsbury's Choir of the Year Competition p4 JSJOURNAL ;S[EWS is published every month for employees of J Sainsbury pic Stamford House Stamford Street New non-executive director London SE1 9LL Chairman, Sir Telephone: 01-921 6660 John Sainsbury, announced on Associate editor December 11 Yvonne Burke that the Rt Hon Assistant editor James Prior, MP, Ann Grain was to join the Editorial assistant board of Jane Heeney Sainsbury's as a Design non-executive Alex Evans director on January 1. Typesetting and Printing Libra Press Contents News 2/3 Sainsbury's Choir of the Year competition 1984 4 Openings. —Walsall Homebase 5 —Burnley 6 —Coventry Homebase 7 Fundraisers for the NSPCC —Princess Margaret and Miss World 8/9 Introducing... Homebase senior managers 10/11 Business news 12 Bricks and Mortar —the opening of the new Cancer Research Labs at Birmingham University 13 New products 14 Running Beaujolais to ground 15 News in brief 16-18 People 19 Archives 20 Cover story The winners are announced and the celebrations begin ... the televised finals of the Sainsbury's Choir of Engineers the Year Competition at the Opera House, Buxton. best in year ... again THEY HAVE DONE IT AGAIN! Bob Jones, apprentice plant maintenance engineer at Charlton depot, and David Glitz, apprentice refrigeration engineer at Rom­ ford area office, have once again received awards from the South East London Engineering Train­ ing Association (SELETA). On December 6 at the Tudor Barn, Well Hall, Bob collected a watch as fourth year winner and both he and David (fourth year runner-up) were presented with certificates by John Cartwright, MP. This is the third SELETA award Bob has won and it's a Bob Jones and Roy Buckley, works engineer. second for David! GOOD NEWS FOR Roy Griffiths PENSIONERS joins medics JS veterans received a pleasant surprise with this MANAGING DIRECTOR, Roy year's Christmas card from Griffiths has been elected a the Chairman—£20 worth of governor of the United Medical JS gift vouchers. This can be and Dental Schools of Guy's and done without pensioners in­ St Thomas's Hospitals. This is the curring a tax liability. body which governs the teaching The annual review of of medical students and the pensions by the Trustees research done at both schools. resulted in the approval of a Sainsbury's has long had five per cent increase in all connections with St Thomas's pensions eligible for review and Roy Griffiths himself did con­ this year. The higher pen­ siderable work with St Thomas's sions are paid from Decem­ when he headed the recent in­ ber 31, 1984. This increase quiry into the national health is in line with the rise in service. prices over the last 12 The Griffiths family has strong months. It is the same as the ties with St Thomas's. A son and increase made last January, a daughter both qualified at the and confirms the priority medical school which has now the Pension Fund gives to amalgamated with Guy's medical seeking to maintain the real school as part of the university value of pensions. rationalisation plans. competitive position and holding Discount '85 down the rate of inflation in food Say it prices. launched More than 600 product lines, with flowers including stable commodities SAINSBURY'S has just launched feature in Discount '85. 'I WANDERED lonely as a Discount '85 with prices re­ The new colour scheme will be cloud... when all at once I saw a flecting the company's highly orange and brown. crowd, a host of golden daffodils.' competitive market position. A walk round York City walls This will be the eighth year the in spring will reveal such a sight Discount programme has been School thanks to Sainsbury's and a run. handful of dedicated girl guides The concept of Discount support and brownies. remains unchanged since the To brighten up the city walls, launch of the programme in 1978 PUPILS AT Colchester Royal the children planted, during their when it was introduced to end Grammar School have received half term, scores of daffodil bulbs short-term price reductions in some new computer equipment Senior appointment in banks along the Jewbury favour of long-term discounts, — thanks to an educational award PETER COX has joined the section of the wall. concentrating on the most im­ given by Sainsbury's 80 years ago. company as senior manager The planting formed part of a portant and frequently purchased The equipment was presented responsible for management project involving 32,000 bulbs items in the family's shopping to the school to mark its 400th development and training. donated by JS and was arranged basket. The Discount pro­ anniversary in a revival of the He was previously manager of and organised by the Keep Britain gramme has played a major part award that was first made by Mr business services at the Institute Tidy Group with the City Parks in maintaining JS's excellent John Sainsbury, the founder. of Grocery Distribution. department. PROPERTY A NEW freezer centre opened provide 80 more spaces. The adjacent to Clifton Down branch, company hopes to build an upper Bristol, on Tuesday, December 4. deck on the existing car park. The new store is under the man­ Planning permission for a agement of Wally Ross, previously supermarket to be built on deputy manager at Bedminster Stratton Road, Swindon, has been branch. rejected by Thamesdown With a sales area of just over Council. 3,000 sq ft, it includes an off- Openings to put in your diary licence department. for the month of January: The planning appeal for a Loughborough supermarket, supermarket to be built on the Greenclose Lane, Loughborough, old waterworks site in Carshalton Leicestershire, Thursday, January Road, Sutton, has been refused 24 at 9.30 am. by the department of the environ­ ment. Elmbridge Council has refused planning permission for a 56,000 sq ft supermarket to be built in Cobham. Plans for a new Homebase and supermarket to be built on the stadium site, Crayford, have been approved by Bexley Council. Permission is being sought to John Cartwright, MP, with David Glitz. extend Preston car park to A singing success AS VIEWERS ALL over Britain matching shoes: his off-white witnessed on television, the trainers were hastily spread with Sainsbury's Choir of the Year blacking. are the Renaissance Singers. Simon Sainsbury, Chairman of The Sainsbury's Youth Choir of the Sainsbury's Arts Sponsorship the Year is the City of Sheffield Committee, said: 'Our involve­ Girls' Choir. ment in choral singing began in It was in April this year—that 1982 with the Sainsbury's Festival the decision was taken to present of Choirs at the Royal Albert Hall the first Sainsbury's Choir of the and continued with a further Year Competition. festival in 1983. Choirs had to be amateur and consist of not less than 20 and not Sheffield Girls' Choir with Simon Sainsbury. more than 100 singers. BURY'S There were no set works and in each round choirs had to perform a contrasting ten minute programme. Two hundred and sixty choirs consisting of 11,500 performers were inivited to take part in the auditions. Seventeen audition­ ing centres were organised ranging from Londonderry to Norwich, Plymouth to Aberdeen, •pLDLTjLxniirrir] and five weekends commencing on June 16 were set aside to [nnnnni] select 48 choirs (32 adult and 16 youth) to take part in the com­ CHI] petition proper. The success of these events Qualifying choirs then took made us more ambitious and led Adjudicators applaud as Simon Sainsbury presents prizes. part in their stage one regional us to develop this national choral round, moving further afield for competition: the Sainsbury's stage two, and ultimately to Choir of the Year Competition. Buxton for the finals weekend. The regional element, an All travel and accommodation important consideration in the expenses were met through rest of the Sainsbury's Arts Sainsbury's sponsorship bringing Sponsorship Programme, was together choirs who would other­ immediately apparent.' wise have been unlikely ever to Said Hilary Boulding, BBC share a platform. producer: 'The BBC is delighted The spirit of amateur music to have been associated with this making was apparent from the first national competition for start and the sheer enthusiasm an amateur choirs, the largest of its inspiration: the choir of senior type ever to have been staged in citizens which took the require­ the UK. It has captured the ment of "presentation" to heart imagination of singers and and finished with an impressive television audiences throughout rendition of Rock Around the Britain and, for many choirs, has Clock; another which arrived for formed a focus for the year's the auditions with 19 rather than activities.' the stipulated 20, hoping that an expectant mother among them could count for two—and she did; the student who arrived with The Renaissance Singers with conductor Roland Lee and Simon his impeccable dinner suit only Sainsbury. to find he had forgotten the An invitation to view DULWICH picture gallery-the would like to make use of the oldest public gallery in the passes they should contact the country— is in danger. Without Journal for details. financial aid the gallery will close The gallery has 13 rooms and and an appeal has been launched around 300 pictures on view to raise money. One thousand including both familiar works pounds has been donated to the and interesting lesser known appeal from the Sainsbury paintings. The building itself is Charitable Fund.
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