Nominate Your 2017 Stagecoach Champions
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The newsletter of Stagecoach Group Issue 119 | January 2017 STAGE ON page 4 page 6 INSIDE Pilgrims presentation | Art on the line Nominate your 2017 Stagecoach Champions The search is underway Gold, Silver and Bronze awards are presented for Categories for 2017 for the Stagecoach each category and shortlisted entrants receive a Safety Champion: awarded to employees who Champions of 2017 trophy and a cash prize. have championed good safety or excelled in dealing – so make sure you Stagecoach Group Chief Executive Martin with a specific situation or incident. nominate someone Griffiths said: “We have celebrated some fantastic you think is deserving employees and achievements through our Environment Champion: presented to individuals of a Champions Award. Champions Awards over the years. We are fortunate who have championed greener working practices Now in the eighth year of to have many amazing staff members in our team and sustainability, such as by improving energy the awards, more than 150 and I look forward to hearing about those who are efficiency, reducing the company’s carbon employees from across the Group, nominated for this year’s awards.” emissions or developing innovative ways to get have so far been honoured for their outstanding We are giving employees plenty of time to share people to switch from the car to public transport. efforts in a number of fields. with us their nominations – this year, the deadline Community Champion: recognises employees The 2017 awards will again recognise success for nominations is the end of May with an awards who have made a significant contribution to the in the following categories: Safety; Environment; ceremony to follow later in the year. local community through charitable fund-raising Community; Health; Customer Service; and Innovation. To nominate your champion, simply complete the or volunteering. Employees from across the Group’s bus and rail online survey here or download nomination form Health Champion: for employees who have done businesses in the UK and North America are invited to in the Media/FAQ section of the Group website and most to promote employee health within the Group. nominate colleagues who they believe are making a email it to [email protected]. Customer Service Champion: presented to real difference in any of these areas. You can also send it by post to: individuals who have gone the extra mile to deliver For the Customer Service category we will once more Lindsay Reid, Senior Group Communications exceptional customer service. be calling on the help of the millions of passengers Manager, Stagecoach Group, 10 Dunkeld Road, who use our bus and rail services each year, inviting Perth, PH1 5TW. Innovation Champion: for employees who can them to put forward their recommendations for their You can nominate yourself or one of your suggest the best new ideas across any area of the Stagecoach Champion. Their views and those of colleagues. Nominations close on Friday 26 May business, whether it’s the launch of a new product, our own team of employees will be considered in 2017. Look out for further updates on The Loop the introduction of a new system or a way of saving deciding the award. intranet and in future issues of On Stage. the company money. Collecting sleigh-loads for charity Spreading festive joy DOZENS of Stagecoach Manchester drivers got into Claus outfits while operating their services in the FESTIVE travellers were presented with the the festive spirit by dressing up as Santa Claus to run up to Christmas. largest ever replica train made entirely from raise money for charity. Money raised from the fundraising will go directly presents, in Virgin Trains’ traditional annual bid Drivers from the Stockport, Ashton, Sharston, to support Prevent Breast Cancer, which undertakes to spread Christmas cheer. Middleton, Hyde Road and Wigan depots collected ground-breaking research into the prediction and Life-size replicas of the iconic Azuma and donations for Stagecoach Manchester’s charity of prevention of breast cancer, a disease which over Pendolino trains were unveiled at King’s Cross the year, Prevent Breast Cancer, by wearing Santa 50,000 people in the UK are diagnosed with and Birmingham New Street stations before each year. Christmas, with lucky passengers able to take Stagecoach Manchester Managing a present home. Director Elisabeth Tasker said: Patrick McCall, Co-Chairman for Virgin Trains, “Our drivers are more than happy to said: “We know Christmas is here when we get help spread festive cheer, while our to unveil our Virgin Christmas Train. This year passengers always give generously we’ve broken from tradition and taken it off and the younger children in particular the tracks for the first time and into stations – enjoy seeing Santa driving their bus! giving away an amazing 2,000 presents over “Hopefully we will help to put a smile the week. After finding out that people believe on people’s faces in the run up to the magic of Christmas disappears at age 18, Christmas and we’d like to thank we wanted to spread a bit of sparkle for the passengers for their generosity when two million customers expected to travel with we collect for charity, not just in us over the festive period.” Stagecoach Manchester drivers dressed as Santa Claus December, but throughout the year.” 1 Did you know? South West Trains delivered unclaimed toys from its Lost Property team to a local hospice for Christmas ON STAGE Diversity and inclusion challenge What a REPRESENTATIVES from across Stagecoach Group were invited to The House of Commons recently to Laugh! take part in the launch of The Speaker’s Diversity Overheard on the Metro in Tyneside: & Inclusion BAME (Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic) Challenge. One teenager to another: “Why do they have The morning was spent discussing positive inventors these days? Everything has been action and initiatives to improve opportunities and invented!” management promotions for BAME employees within If you have seen or heard something funny a range of industries. The event was sponsored by – online, in the papers, on social media or just the organisation Inclusive Employers which a number The Stagecoach attendees – Satty Potiwal from South while out and about – send your contributions for of Stagecoach Group divisions already work with. West Trains, Sandra May from South West Trains, Kate Thompson and Chris Buckley from East Midlands Trains the ‘What a Laugh’ section in the next edition to Group Talent Manager Kate Thompson said: “It was [email protected] a great opportunity to meet colleagues from other A spokesperson for Inclusive Employers said: “Today businesses who share a common goal of ensuring we launched the Speaker of the House of Commons equivalence of opportunity for all of our employees BAME challenge. We want to enable employers n Top awards for reliability and sharing experiences with other like minded to find solutions and drive change to ensure that employers. Having The Speaker’s support for this diverse talents are attracted, recruited, retained, PASSENGERS travelling with South West Trains cause was fantastic.” developed and can fulfill their potential.” are using some of the most reliable trains in the country according to the latest industry awards. The Golden Spanner Awards highlight the most reliable train fleets and the 2016 ceremony saw South West Trains win four top awards. Have your say... The company’s Class 458’s were named runner- WE HAVE embarked on an exercise to gather up in the new generation electrical multiple unit together the views of our staff across the Group to category, while the Class 455 units, which run on the find out what they like about working for Stagecoach busy Suburban lines, won the award for the most and what they think we might be able to improve. reliable former British Rail electrical multiple unit. Our rail companies each have their own annual The Class 444’s which run on the London to employee surveys and now, for the first time, we are Weymouth / Portsmouth line were awarded for undertaking a staff survey across the UK Bus division best new generation electrical multiple unit, while as well as Group headquarters and in North America. the Class 159’s, which run from London to stations Starting very soon, our online ‘Have your say...’ west of Salisbury, were awarded the most reliable survey will be distributed to UK Bus employees and research organisation, Breaking Blue. We promise former diesel multiple unit category. staff at Group headquarters. A similar survey in North that all the answers you give will be completely Duncan Wilkins, Fleet Director for South West America will follow and the results from across the confidential and will only be seen by Breaking Blue. Trains, said: “Since we run one of the busiest Group will be collated and used to inform future We also promise to act upon the results to help meet networks in Europe, the reliability of our fleet is developments, improvements and changes. employee needs as far as we possible can. There crucial to ensure we keep the network running on We know that without our staff we couldn’t do what may be things we can’t change – or can’t change time, every day. Reliable trains mean we can be we do. That’s why we’re carrying out this survey – to quickly, but we’ll tell you how we plan to move as punctual as possible and get our passengers to find out what our employees think we do well... forward. where they need to be.” or not so well. Whether your feedback is positive or The survey will be available from January 30th so negative, let your voice be heard. keep your eyes peeled for information in your local It should only take 10 to 15 minutes to complete the area and start thinking about the feedback you’d like n Special donation survey which is being carried out by independent to give us.