SEGA Europe joins forces with Creating Tomorrow’s Forests

Games company SEGA teamed up with Dorset-based Creating Tomorrow’s Forests to plant 239 trees celebrating World Earth Day.

Each tree represented one of its employees.

It hopes to inspire positive environmental change as the UK begins to recover from the pandemic.

The trees were planted just over the county border in Somerset, close to the Dorset headquarters of Creating Tomorrow’s Forests.

The site was previously used for agriculture and is now being transformed into a woodland habitat designed with biodiversity in mind.

It features a central pond and a variety of native broadleaf trees to attract a rare mix of plant and wildlife species.

Gary Dale, CEO at SEGA Europe, said “We hope this will encourage other companies to get involved in this concerted effort to help reduce the carbon footprint of big businesses.

“We also hope this will inspire our own teams to be more environmentally conscious.

“Creating Tomorrow’s Forests are actively trying to make a difference in building a sustainable future for our woodlands, and we are delighted to play a small part in that.”

World Earth Day took place on April 22 and saw over 1bn participants around the world coming together to drive positive action for our planet.

Dr Simone Webber, Senior Ecology Editor, Creating Tomorrow’s Forests, pictured, said: “We have made sure that the site will support declining species whilst contributing to the ongoing fight against climate change.”

Creating Tomorrow’s Forests and its sister company, Tomorrow’s Forests, have planted over 8m trees in the UK over the past six years.

With growing concern for the environment and snowballing support from businesses, they expect to plant at least 2m more by 2023.

• To find out more or become a member, visit creatingtomorrowsforests.co.uk.

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Yellows choose hospitality expert to deliver customer service training

‘Foward thinking’ management at Yellow Buses and Yellow Coaches are looking to the hospitality industry to provide customer service training for their drivers.

They’ve chosen Bournemouth-based Simon Scarborough Associates, headed by former hotelier Simon Scarborough, who’ll deliver training across the locally owned and operated company.

He has started with a bespoke package of customer service training for drivers operating the Summer leisure network.

David Squire, Managing Director, pictured left, said “We are delighted to be working with Simon to deliver a unique and bespoke customer service training package to our front-line staff.

“Simon’s expertise in the hospitality industry offers a completely different take to our traditional bus industry approach.

“We look forward to rolling this out across our wider teams.”

Simon said he believed every company needed to embrace a natural ethos throughout its business leading by example from the top.

This included recruiting and selecting correctly, for example only employing naturally happy smiling team members and supporting and developing the team every step of the way.

He said: “David Squire and his team are very forward thinking and care passionately about their staff and giving their passengers an amazing experience on all their services,

“I’m delighted to be working with them.”

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Good Oaks highly commended at Home Care Awards 2021

Good Oaks Home Care has been highly commended at the prestigious Home Care Awards.

The Head Office team, based in Poole, said they were ‘over the moon’ to have been chosen as highly commended in the Team Support Expertise (Head Office or behind the scenes support) category.

The Home Care Awards are described as the annual benchmark of excellence for UK companies and organisations providing home care or domiciliary care services.

This year’s awards were held online with hundreds of care providers joining in for a lunch time event.

Ben Ashton, Co-director of Good Oaks Home Care, pictured left, said: “We are incredibly proud of our teams.

“The dedication and determination they have shown across the last year to go above and beyond over and over again for our clients has been truly inspiring.

“2020 presented unique challenges to everyone, but we are so proud of the way we were able to act fast to ensure we kept our clients and carers as safe as possible.

“We have worked hard to look after each other and make sure that everyone felt supported.

“Our team’s attitude and spirit has been remarkable, and we are proud of each and every one of them.”

Founded in 2011, Good Oaks Home Care is the UK’s only carbon neutral franchising care company.

The company is involved in tree planting initiatives in both the UK and the Amazon Rainforest.