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FEATURE ARTICLE 23/05/16
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BITC Give & Gain Day Round-Up

adi Group thoroughly enjoyed being involved in Business In The Community’s ‘Give & Gain Day’ (Friday 20th May 2016). Give & Gain Day, is the only global day of employee volunteering and is organised annually by Business in the Community. Over 240 companies volunteered to help hundreds of community organisations in the UK .

In total, the time donated by business volunteers across the UK as a result of Give & Gain Day will be 73,540 hours – an invaluable investment for communities. Projects across the UK involved everything from introducing school kids to sports and promoting healthy lifestyle, to employability workshops with the long term unemployed, and revitalising community gardens. The initiative aims to encourage and challenge many more businesses to invest time in their communities.

The Day

adi Apprentices volunteered at Birmingham’s ThinkTank Science Museum to reviltalize the Science Garden in preparation for the upcoming busy summer period. The Science Garden is an outdoor discovery space packed with surprises and fun activities for the whole family. It offers an adventurous and entertaining day out, bringing themes of engineering, mechanics and transportation to life through over 30 hands-on exhibits.

The day was project managed by our very own Business Apprentice, Jessica Horton, who co-ordinated all pre-event information and tasks including Risk Assessments, Health & Safety requirements, Apprentice Inductions on the day as well as the behind the scenes logistics of pulling together all Apprentices from across adi’s 11 sites.

To add an element of friendly competition to the table, we split our Apprentices into two teams of five who had to elect a team captain. Our teams were then tasked with over-seeing the upkeep of the garden including removing any weeds, cutting bushes, sweeping floors, and emptying water features to ensure they were dirt free.

In addition to benefiting visitors to the museum, through volunteering on Give & Gain Day, adi Apprentices also had the opportunity to gain and develop their skills in; project management, leadership, problem solving, team building, customer service and improved self-confidence as well as bond together outside of the workplace.

An enjoyable day was had by all and we would like to extend our thanks to Becky and the team at the ThinkTank for having us.

Below are some of the photo highlights from the day as it happened:

 

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