If you haven’t heard before – each month Essential’s staff donate money to a charity of their (or their client’s) choice. We all decided to have an amount deducted from our wages each week that we put into a charity pot to donate to worthy causes. This month, we decided to spice things up – we…
At Essential Recruitment we’re committed to supporting the communities we work in – which is why we’re delighted to once again sponsor the Burton Albion Community Trust Holiday Football Camp! These holiday camps are an incredible opportunity for local children to stay active during school breaks. Perfect for players of all abilities, the camps combine…
Essential Recruitment’s Burton branch is proud to announce our sponsorship of the Burton Albion Community Trust Holiday Club. This exciting partnership will support the Trust’s Easter, May, and October holiday programmes, providing local children with fun, engaging activities during the school breaks. A Commitment to Community As a recruitment agency dedicated to connecting people with…
Our Operation’s Managers, Rob and Lauren, are busy training for the London Landmark Half Marathon on Sunday 6th April in order to raise awareness and money for Anti-Slavery international. Slavery doesn’t just happen in other countries – in fact it’s a growing problem in the UK, with an estimated 130,000 cases – and…
Week 8 of training – it’s getting real now! Hi, I’m Lauren, and I’m training for the London Landmark Half Marathon to raise money for Anti-Slavery charities. I was sweet talked into taking part by our Compliance Officer, Frankie. We both enjoy a fitness challenge, but doing it for such a good cause made for…
At Essential Recruitment, we believe in giving back to the community. That’s why we’ve established a charity pot, where our staff generously donate each week to dress down on Fridays. This month, we’re thrilled to announce that we’ve donated £100 to Macmillan Cancer Support. Our Donation Our donation is inspired by the courageous journey of…
Last week, we held a walking challenge for our staff, and they absolutely smashed it! They walked a staggering total of 325.77 miles between them! That would be the equivalent of walking from the west coast of Wales to the east coast of England! Before we reveal the person who walked the furthest, there’s something…
Our aptly-named friend Andy March is walking 15 miles on the 5th May to raise money for Bottled Up Blokes, a charity whose mission is to ‘raise awareness and help to end the stigma surrounding men and mental health’. We’ll walk to that! This charity was created ‘to try and help men open up…
This month our Business Development Manager, Charlie Baker, is taking part in the “Marathon My Way” challenge for Sands, the stillbirth and neonatal death charity. In this, participants are challenged to run a total of 26.2 miles, but with a twist; You get to choose your own pace and schedule! Charlie says: “This April,…
Pictured L-R: Becca (HR Assistant at OSL), Brad (Warehouse Manager at OSL), Julie (Head of HR at OSL), Nathan (Our Consultant), Natalie (Our Content Strategist) plus two of OSL’s Charity Committee Members; Alex (Customer Service Advisor at OSL) and Beth (Software Developer at OSL) Essential Recruitment partnered with our Client, OSL Cutting Technologies in…
There are more people in slavery today than at any other time in history In 2010, the UK passed a landmark Act of Parliament that established Anti Slavery Day. This day (18th Oct) is used to spread awareness of modern slavery, battle human trafficking and exploitation, educate people on how to spot the signs of…
Our Business Development Manager, Andrea is featured on the right here with our donation to the Karlos Crew’s charity raffle! She is pictured here with the Crew’s founder, Paul Cyples. The Karlos Crew was set up in memory of Karl Payne, a Burton resident who passed away whilst taking part in a charity bike…
We heard that 13 year old Dakota was going to be taking part in a skipping challenge to raise money for Cancer Research, after our client John at HSC contacted our Ripley office, and we just couldn’t turn down the opportunity to support her in achieving her goal! We’ve donated £100 to her fundraiser….
Our Barnsley team are working with their client to donate to Andy’s Man Club. Pictured above L-R: Summer Caunt, Senior Recruitment Consultant / Megan South, HR/ Amy Heppleston, Recruitment Consultant The charity tell the story of their humble beginnings on their website: “In mid-2016, nine men met in a small room in the…
We’re donating to Tibshelf Warm Space in conjunction with our friends at Hydro in Tibshelf. The centre offers free tea, coffee and biscuits, craft activities, card games and bingo. There is no need to book, and it is open to everyone. The space is part of the Warm Spaces programme, which says “With a…
Another donation to Ashgate Hospice this month – this time coming from a nomination from our friends over at Brett Martin Ltd, Kim Britton-Williams and Erin Melling! Ashgate hospice ‘provide, educate and campaign for palliative and end-of-life care and bereavement support.’ Thanks to Kim and Erin, Ashgate benefit from a donation which they say will…
“flippin’ cold out isn’t it?!” We’ve all been scurrying into the office saying something similar this week, with temperatures dropping and ice everywhere, we can’t wait to get into the warm office and cuddle the radiator before making a lovely hot drink. It breaks our hearts to think there are people who are sleeping…
We’ve just donated to Harri’s Christmas Quest 2022 after hearing about it through our friends at Sheffield Flooring Solutions. Harri is a 13 year old boy who has suffered with Congenital heart defects (CHDs) since birth, and therefore knows how it feels to spend Christmas on the Ward. His experience motivated him to make an…
Pictured: Steve Hanscomb, Vice Chair of Trustee Board for the Citizen’s Advice Bureau and Andrea Tantrum, Business Development Manager and Trustee for Essential Recruitment. Have you ever sought help from Citizen’s Advice? If so, you’re not alone. In 2020-2021, 2.4 million people were helped to find a way forward with one-to-one, impartial advice. Not…
It’s easy to believe that we’re past the age of slavery, but with almost 8000 potential victims referred to the Home Office alone, we know there is still a long way to go. From 1 April – 30 June 2022: 4171 potential victims referred (10% increase on previous period) 79% were male, 21% female 54%…
This month we’ve supported our Client, Russell Roof Tiles, in raising money for local charities including MIND (who we recently donated to in Nottinghamshire) and the YMCA. Mind ‘provide advice and support to empower anyone experiencing a mental health problem. We campaign to improve services, raise awareness and promote understanding’. The YMCA focus on young…
Essential supports the 25th World Scout Jamboree We recently donated to Melania, the daughter of our contact at PPS in Uttoxeter. Melania says “I am an Explorer Scout from Burton, Staffordshire, who are currently fundraising money to enable us to attend the 25th World Scout Jamboree, which will be held near SaeManGeum, Korea in August…
Every year we fully support Mental Health Awareness Week as an opportunity to focus on how our business looks after the well being of our staff and our temporary workforce. This year we wanted to focus specifically on awareness – in the past we have tried promoting wellbeing by encouraging our staff to take walks…
CPL work with Essential to donate £100 to Nottinghamshire Mind for Mental Health Awareness Week. This month, we worked with our client CPL Distribution who wanted to choose a charity to donate to which was close to their heart. Susan Foxon, Worksop Operations Manager at CPL asked us to donate to mind Nottinghamshire Mind. Mind…
Our Business Development Manager, Charlie has been working with our clients and other businesses in the Burton area to coll-egg-t easter eggs to donate to local charities! The first donation was to CVS in Swadlincote, a charity working to improve the quality of life for people in South Derbyshire. Their food bank…
Our Financial Controller Sarah completed the Ashgate Hospice High Peak Trail Walk on Sunday 13th March with her sister. They completed the 11 mile walk in 3.5 hours, raising £265 between them for the hospice! Ashgate Hospicecare charity (no. 700636) provide palliative and end-of-life care free of charge to people aged 18 and over…
The war in Ukraine has gripped the world – we watch, stunned and speechless as countless acts of terror unfold upon innocent citizens. Our support comes from our hearts, but also from empathy for our community. Many of our workers, neighbours and colleagues have family and friends in Ukraine or the surrounding countries and are…
Our Business Development Managers, Charlie Baker & Andrea Tantrum has last week taken part in Derek’s tree, a charity event in Burton on Trent which every year collects presents for disadvantaged kids in the local community. Throughout the year we collect money from our staff in order to fund our charity pot, which is…
As you may have heard, Essential Recruitment recently became 100% Employee Owned! To communicate this to all of our staff, we held an event at the Casa Hotel in Chesterfield where all of our Directors explained how everything would work, gave them more information about what this means for the business, and…
On the 20th November, Khloe took the big chop so she could donate hair to the Little Princess Trust. We were approached by John, one of our client contacts at our Ripley office, who enquired about our charity scheme in which we offer £100 per month to charities of our client’s choosing. John told us…
This month we donated £100 to the Derbyshire, Leicestershire & Rutland Air Ambulance Service on behalf of Bunches in Newstead. Pictured L-R: Mark, Operations Manager (Bunches) and Ross, Recruitment Consultant (Essential Recruitment) Mark noticed our charity campaign to donate £100 per month to a charity of our client’s choice and asked us if we…
Would you like to help your favourite charity raise funds? We would too! We’re giving our clients the opportunity to donate £100 from our fundraising pot to their chosen charity. A recent charity event we sponsored Currently we raise money by running ‘dress down Friday’s’, asking each staff member to donate £2 per month…
We donated £100 to Ashgate Hospicecare this month on behalf of our Financial Controller, Sarah Wadsworth. Sarah is taking on the Ashgate Hospicecare High Peak Trail Walk to raise vital funds for the Hospice. She says “They need our support now more than ever, so please make a donation if you can on…
We recently donated £100 to our client Flowerline, as our contacts Julian and Jo completed a sponsored 220 mile bike ride from Wales to Wellow. Their goal is to purchase equipment for the Nottingham Breast Institute, which they have successfully been doing for a number of years now. “Through cycling numerous long-distance routes and…
Our client, Marley is holding their annual golf competition locally this year at Mickleover Golf Club on 22 July 2021. We offered a donation from our Charity Pot to help them with this worthwhile event – our staff donate money each week to participate in our ‘Dress Down Friday’s, which we then pass on…
Kids from low-income homes shouldn’t go without at Christmas time. That’s why we’ve donated to the Pantry Appeal by Revive Healthy Living Centre in Derby. Charlie, our Business Development Manager, has organised the donation of these toys as she felt she wanted to ensure that a child other than her own would experience the joy…
On Monday 3rd July, Recruitment Consultants Yasmin and Angelika from our Worksop branch visited Thornberry Animal Sanctuary! In 2017 we decided that rather than having a charity of the year as we have done previously, we were going to donate to a different, local charity each month. Not only does this give our staff an…
On the 7th May 2017, our Senior Recruitment Consultant Curt Walker from Doncaster took part in a charity boxing match named Boxing4Heroes.
This year we’re devoting our fundraising efforts to local charities – each month, one of our 9 branches will choose a local charity to fundraise for. With around 50 members of staff, it’s not hard to find a charity we have a connection to, and this month was no different… Over the past couple of…
Linda and Rob with Andrew and friend, Mia. Image via: Worksop Guardian Lisa took part in an event organised by Andrew’s mother, Sam, on Saturday 15th April – a 5k run in Clumber Park, Worksop. The event saw 40 children run a sponsored 5k race in stages – each child ran 125 metres. Lisa ran with…
We recently took part in Sellick Partnership’s Charity Football Tournament in aid of the Maria Hanson Foundation. The event was held at the Powerleague Derby Soccordome, with many local businesses taking part. Below is a photo of our team from the day – L-R: Curt Walker (Chesterfield), Billy Land (Mansfield), Rob Wilson (Chesterfield), Rob…
We’ve almost completed this year’s Easter Eggstravaganza! After the success of last year’s event, we decided to give it another go. The event involves us at Essential contacting local businesses for their help in our mission to make sure that no child misses out on the Easter fun, and that everyone gets an egg. Our…
Today we’re wishing very merry Christmas to the fantastic Bluebell Wood Children’s Hospice. We’ve raised £985 so far for the charity from a combination of Lisa’s Half Marathon, Emma’s Charity fashion show and an in-branch tuck shop. This doesn’t include our contributions from Bluebell’s bag it up scheme or our collection tins, so we know we’re not…
Our Compliance Manager Lisa Sprowell has raised £509 for our charity of the year, Bluebell Wood Children’s Hospice. Lisa participated in the Worksop Half Marathon, a 13 mile race in which almost 2000 took part…
Essential Recruitment are due to hold a Fashion Show on the 26th October 2015 in order to raise funds for our Charity of the Year, Bluebell Wood Children’s Hospice. The event will be held at the Alfreton Community Hall – a Central point to our 9 branch network. ‘Colours’ will be providing the entertainment on…
We’re absolutely blown away with the response to our Easter Egg Eggstravagansa. Around 2,000 items have been collected between 5 of our branches, including Easter eggs, chocolates, Easter crafts, soft toys and vouchers. The details are as follows: Chesterfield – Donating to Chesterfield Royal Hospital Donated by: Holdsworth Chocolates, Specsavers, Peak Care, Utopia Tableware, Squadron…
Over the course of the year Essential Recruitment have organised various fundraising days, including dressing up for ‘Beach Day’, Halloween and an ‘Onesie Day’. They’ve ran an office tuck shop, completed a ‘skate-off’, endured the ‘Tough Mudder’ challenge, gambled in Internal World-Cup Sweepstakes and biggest of all, ran their online charity auction. “We’re so…
Our tough mudder duo – Kristyan and Rob – have raised an amazing £316.25 for Ashgate Hospice, our charity of the year. The guys endured some pretty brutal obstacle courses, and of course, got very muddy! Congratulations to the pair, and thanks to everyone to your support. We’re on track for our £2,000 pledge this…
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