At the weekend, Kyle, one of our Security Officers at Telford Centre used a Westgrove Volunteer Day to take park in a Pretty Muddy 5km event supporting and raising money for Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life!
Westgrove colleagues can use a volunteer day to support a cause close to their hearts and Kyle jumped at the chance to take part in this event and raise money for the charity. With enthusiasm, Kyle climbed, crawled and slid his way around the 5km obstacle course!
Westgrove offer Volunteer Days to all their colleagues. It’s important to give back to the communities where we work and live. Colleagues can find out more about Westgrove Volunteer Days by emailing volunteer@westgrove.co.uk.
To learn more about Cancer Research Race for Life, click here.
We are delighted to have been awarded a RoSPA Gold Health & Safety Award 2024, demonstrating its commitment to health and safety excellence
The Westgrove Group won a Gold Award in the Health & Safety category, demonstrating its dedication to ensuring its colleagues and partners get home safely at the end of every working day.
The esteemed RoSPA Awards program now celebrates its 68th year as the UK’s largest and most impactful health and safety programme. With almost 2,000 entries annually from over 50 countries, impacting over seven million employees, they offer a platform to spotlight an unwavering commitment to continuous improvement and excellence in health and safety.
Whether entrants seek non-competitive excellence recognition or vie for competitive awards across 32 industry sectors, the RoSPA Awards provide an unparalleled opportunity to stand
Julia Small, RoSPA’s Achievements Director, commented:
“Workplace accidents don’t just pose financial risks and operational disruptions; they significantly impact the quality of life for individuals. This is why acknowledging and rewarding excellent safety performance is vital.
“We congratulate The Westgrove Group for winning a prestigious RoSPA Award and showing an unwavering commitment to keeping employees, clients and customers safe from accidental harm and injury.”
Sponsored by Croner-i, the RoSPA Awards scheme is the longest-running of its kind in the UK, and receives entries from organisations across the globe, making it one of the most sought-after achievement awards for the health and safety industry.
RoSPA is a leading voice in health and safety that campaigns to reduce avoidable accidents. Their vision is to create a life free from accidental injury, and with the support of our members, this is at the core of everything they do. They lobby Government on issues that matter, pioneer the world’s largest health and safety awards and provide a suite of RoSPA qualifications that help learners and employers keep their colleagues safe from accidents and ill-health.
Fast growing Facilities Management company, The Westgrove Group is delighted to have won the prestigious Mental Wellbeing Initiative Award at the BSIA’s 2024 British Security Awards.
This win demonstrates Westgrove’s unbelievable integrity towards its commitment to ESG and showcases its support as founding corporate patron of the Mind Over Mountains charity.
Through their partnership with Mind Over Mountains, Westgrove provides insightful mental wellbeing team talks and mental health support for all colleagues, including offsite wellness walks and retreats where employees can spend time in nature, connect with themselves and take a breather from day-to-day stresses.
In addition to the Mental Wellbeing Initiative Award, Westgrove was also named winner in the national ‘Best Team’ category for their security team in Templars Square Shopping Centre, as well as scooping five regional awards, including Outstanding Acts and Service to the Customer.
Glenn Wilson, Group Managing Director at Westgrove Group commented: “Having seen all the shortlisted finalists demonstrating the fantastic work that goes on within the security industry, we were thrilled to receive these two accolades, in particular the Mental Wellbeing award which demonstrates the value of our ongoing partnership with Mind Over Mountains. The accolade also supports the commitment and investment we continue to make with our ESG strategy and associated objectives”.
Ian Sansbury, CEO of Mind Over Mountains added: “Mind Over Mountains is really privileged to have Westgrove as our founding corporate patron. It’s a genuine partnership, Westgrove’s generous financial support enables us to grow and develop our support for people with mental health requirements – but at the same time, we’re delighted to be able to support the wellbeing of Westgrove’s amazing team. This award is a wonderful testament to our partnership, which continues to grow and flourish”
Our people are what make us special. From saving lives and preventing crime to helping people in need and much more. Our Reward and Recognition scheme is our way of saying thank you to our Colleagues for the amazing work that they do each and every day, often going above and beyond in their role.
Well done to all our winners and everyone who has been nominated for an award this quarter – you are all amazing!
Our 2024 Quarter 2 winners are:
Team of the Quarter
St Johns Cleaning Team
Site Manager of the Quarter
Andrew Chaloner – Grosvenor Shopping Centre, Chester
Colleague of the Quarter
Leanne Bush – Cwmbran Shopping Centre
Newcomer of the Quarter
Kelford Leslie – Houndshill Shopping Centre
Health & Safety Champion
Abu Conteh – The Oaks Shopping Centre
ESG – Social Value
Daniel Barton – Handforth Dean Retail Park
ESG – Environmental
Broadway Shopping Centre Team
Service Excellence
Mark Williams – Westgrove Technical Services
Sharanjit Virdee – Touchwood Shopping Centre
Touchwood Shopping Centre Team
Kingfisher Shopping Centre Security & Guest Services Team
Mostafa Elezali – Castle Quay Shopping Centre
Oliver Crawford – Westgrove Head Office
Jordan Jury – Willow Brook Shopping Centre
Michael Sparkes – Westgrove Technical Services
Outstanding Act
Hazel Payne – The Arc
Maria Brett – Swan Centre
Suphan Konthong, Tony Farnsworth, Kevin Harvoutt and David Field – Ryemarket Shopping Centre
Congratulations to all our winning colleagues and to everyone who was nominated in Quarter 2.
If you wish to nominate a colleague for a Reward & Recognition award, click here.
To see a list of all our previous winners, click here.
We are extremely pleased to announce that one of our colleagues has been awarded an ACS Pacesetters Security Officer of Distinction Award 2024!
Julie from Touchwood Shopping Centre in Solihull has been recognised in these prestigious awards for her outstanding contribution to the security sector and has received one of 12 awards in a ceremony that took place at Windsor Racecourse earlier this week.
The awards set out to reward Security Officers who have gone above and beyond in their duties. The winners are selected by a panel of industry leaders and senior officers from all branches of the emergency services.
We would like to thank Julie for her outstanding contribution, not only to Westgrove but to Touchwood and the security industry as a whole.
Fast growing independent facilities management company, The Westgrove Group has recently secured a new contract with Kingfisher Shopping Centre, Redditch.
The contract will see Westgrove deliver cleaning, security, and guest host services to the 1.1m sqft shopping centre in the heart of Redditch town centre. The award follows a competitive tender process which involved a number of market leading facilities management companies.
This exciting partnership brings together Westgrove with Kingfisher Shopping Centre which is managed by Landswood de Coy. Kingfisher Shopping Centre is a popular sub-regional shopping destination sitting within a prosperous catchment with robust employment and increasing industrial prosperity.
Glenn Wilson, Group Managing Director at The Westgrove Group says, “Following this fantastic award, we are excited to develop our partnership with the team at Landswood de Coy and we are delighted to welcome 47 colleagues into our team from Kingfisher Shopping Centre, to drive engagement, standards, and sustainable solutions with ESG at the heart of everything we do.”
Adrian Field, Kingfisher’s General Manager commented, “From the point of receiving the tender submission through to the transfer of colleagues across to the team, Westgrove have been first class. They have scrutinised every detail to ensure that there have been no surprises and the colleagues who have moved across via a TUPE transfer have been most impressed with how they have communicated and reassured them. We very much look forward to working with Westgrove to ensure that Kingfisher excels in our levels of cleanliness, safety and guest experience.”
Westgrove is an independent facilities management company that provides innovative security, cleaning, customer services, and planned & reactive maintenance services to shopping centres, mixed-use destinations, corporate offices, manufacturing, and business parks throughout the UK.
Established in 1998 by Simon Whittle and Steve Fives, the Westgrove Group proudly celebrated its 25th anniversary last year.
We are absolutely thrilled to announce that have made it through to the finals of the British Security Industry Association (BSIA), British Security Awards, 2024 in the Mental Wellbeing Initiative category for the work we do with our charity partner, Mind Over Mountains.
As a founding patron of the charity, we are delighted that this initiative is being recognised within the industry and hope that more people will benefit from knowing about this amazing charity.
Our Westgrove Teams and Colleagues are also finalists in the Best Team, Service to the Customer and Outstanding Act categories and we wish them the best of luck in the finals which are taking place at the Royal Lancaster in London on the 3rd July!
The Westgrove Group ESG Professional Services can:
•Help you to start your ESG journey
•Help you to continue your ESG journey
At Westgrove, we’re passionate about creating a more equitable and sustainable economy. We help businesses integrate ESG into their culture and decision-making process to create long term value for stakeholders and shareholders. We’re on a journey to work with businesses to unlock the value of Environmental, Social, and Governance performance.
Unlike routine compliance assessments, our ESG due diligence assessments adopt a proactive stance, emphasising forward-thinking measures that foster long-term ecological and societal well-being. This means delving deep into the intricacies of resource consumption, waste management, energy efficiency, and social responsibility.
While no two ESG journeys are the same, ESG must be measurable, transparent, and accountable. Drawing upon our regulatory and commercial expertise, we partner with you to identify, develop, and execute an integrated ESG programme that best communicates your story to your stakeholders.
Building a strong safety culture is about more than just managing our colleagues with training, checklists and risk assessments. It’s about empowering our colleagues to become more engaged in looking out for not only their own safety, but also for the safety of everyone else in our organisation, including our partners and others on site.
No Falls Week is organised by the No Falls Foundation, a UK charity who are passionate about preventing accidents that occur at height. This week we’re reminding our teams of the easy steps they can take to reduce the number of falls on site with our Quarterly H&S Campaign, along with a Ladder Safety Toolbox talk for all our colleagues to complete.
The Westgrove Group pledges it’s support for Mental Health Awareness Week. Hosted by the Mental Health Foundation, this year the theme is ‘Movement: Moving more for our mental health’.
Regular physical activity is known to improve mental health, quality of life and wellbeing – working with Mind Over Mountains we offer all our colleagues the opportunity to attend their walking events and retreats to support their mental health and encourage spending time in the outdoors.
This week, we’re taking this opportunity to talk about Mental Health and start the conversation. We’re providing our colleagues with a Mental Health Toolkit and want them to know that if they are struggling there are lots of ways they can reach out for support.
Mental Health Toolkit
We have Mental Health First Aiders in the business and all Colleagues are offered Mental Health Awareness training via our e-leaning programme.
Through our partnership with the Retail Trust, our colleagues have access to free and completely confidential advice and support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and access to the Retail Trust wellbeing portal where they can create their own personalised wellbeing toolkit.
We provide our colleagues with free access to Mind Over Mountains, the well-being and mental health charity who run outdoor therapeutic events throughout the year. Mind Over Mountains believe that time in nature, coupled with professional support is a powerful way to build resilience, talk without pressure and find stillness; restoring mental health, naturally.
If you are struggling with your mental health, we urge you to take the first step and reach out.
The Mental Health Foundation provide a list of charities and organisations that offer help and support directly to people with mental health problems – Click here.
