News|
LATEST NEWS!
Please see our newsletters below for the latest individual site news.
CLEOBURY MORTIMER: WINNING COMBINATION - staff at Cleobury are congratulating their children on helping them win a wonderful piece of play equipment in a competition. Their creative entry, a picture made from recyclable materials, impressed the judges enough to award us first prize and the Dual Tower bridge and slide has now been installed. The children are really loving their new play equipment!
CRABBS CROSS: SPACE TO PLAY is a Worcestershire County Council initiative to help enhance the outdoor areas of settings in the district. After a successful bidding process the Crabbs Cross Nursery has been awarded £12,000 towards improving their outdoor play space. Work will begin in November 2008 and new pieces of physical play equipment are being ordered. The Forest School area will also be further developed and playground markings will be drawn on the patio. More grant funding is available over the next three years and we hope to be able to make further improvements if we are successful during this time.
OTHER NEWS
WARWICKSHIRE: The staff at Studley recently attended an awards ceremony where they were proud to be crowned as winners of the Warwickshire Employer of Choice Medium Business of the Year 2007. This award is presented by Warwickshire County Council in recognition of all the good work-life balance policies and practices in place throughout the company. Tricia Wellings,
Chief Executive said "It was a proud and exciting moment, richly deserved by all the staff for their continued hard work and enjoyment. We aim to support them by creating an atmosphere of health and well-being and winning this award shows we are achieving this aim to a good extent."
NORTHFIELD: A SUCCESSFUL GRANT BID was recently made
for the Northfield setting. A total of £41,500 has been awarded to allow for the complete re-development of the Outdoor Play area and some essential
building works to be carried out. This will be an exciting time for the site and work should be completed by March 2008.
OTHER NEWS
During 2004 Bright Kids was chosen by the Dti to be a video case-study for their
work-life balance initiatives. The cameras were rolling at every site
and six video clips have been produced detailing some of our work-life
balance practices. The clips looked at different perspectives and these
can be viewed individually
(Windows Media Player is required to view the clips below)
Advisor's
Perspective
Background
Business
Benefits
Employees
Perspective
Management
Aspects
Professional
Development
Well done to all the staff for taking part and telling the world what
a wonderful place Bright Kids is to be. Go and take a look for yourself
THREE
TIMES A WINNER
Bright Kids are proud to be the only company to have won an award
for three years running in the Warwickshire Employer of Choice Awards,
and being shortlisted as finalists in following years.
These successes were followed by awards being achieved in the
Birmingham & Solihull Best Business Awards for 2004,2005 and 2006 thereby
providing us with a seal of approval for our excellent work-life balance
practices. 2007 entries are now being judged and we are once again finalists in both awards.
And most importantly like the children
within their care, employees have a bright future as well as having lots
of fun! All employees can achieve their own work-life balance and there are always
plenty of opportunities to contribute to their own development.
BBC
AT BRIGHT KIDS
The BBC filmed at Bright Kids for a feature
on the Politics Show. The purpose was to highlight
their good practices and policies in Work Life Balance. Watch this short
clip featuring Tricia Wellings (previously Tolley) and her staff team to get an understanding
of their good employment practices.
CLICK HERE
TO WATCH
| PoliticsShow.mpg
(to
download right click then Save Target As) (File size = 38.5 MB 56k = 4.30
hours; 512k = 30 min)
NEWSLETTER
| August 2008 - PDF
NEWSLETTER | April 2008 - PDF
