Jayva’s ‘giving back’ for good causes
Jayva employees embark upon expansive range of ‘giving back’ initiatives.
Charity efforts are backed by Jayva’s new paid-leave-for-volunteering scheme.
Jayva staff’s goodwill gestures reinforce the business’s considered focus on wellbeing.
At Jayva, our senior leaders make a concerted effort to recruit people with caring and altruistic personalities. That’s why we all share the same values of mutual respect and appreciation, and act with honesty and openness always.
As such, we’re a group of individuals who are community minded, worldly aware and kind-hearted. With a renewed focus on ‘giving back’, our team’s spending time on projects that make a difference to people, animals, the arts and the environment.
Where there’s a will, there’s a way
So, the ‘will’ to give back exists in abundance. The ‘way’ – the bigger challenge due to work, family and other commitments – is presented by our newly introduced paid-for day’s leave scheme which our Global Chief Executive Officer Nicola Moore-Miller mentioned in her message, ‘Pondering, praising and planning’.
After putting their creative thinking caps on, our employees are getting involved in impactful charity and volunteering activities.
Karina Grocott, Global Accounts Administrator, has started donating blood along with existing blood donor Will Penrice, Global Business Development Director, to help save more lives for those undergoing emergency and long-term hospital treatments. With 400 new donors needed daily to meet demand, Karina and Will join the register of donors boosting our nation’s shrinking blood stock levels.
Colleagues at Jayva and partners outside of work, Leon Vallely and Leanne Pearson, Technical Assistant and Global Project Coordinator respectively, are volunteering at a stroke café. By assisting with the running of the café, and meeting with stroke survivors and their carers, Leon and Leanne are empowering people to access the emotional and practical help they need at a time when they’ve become more socially isolated. Volunteers like Leon and Leanne are driving better outcomes in stroke prevention, treatment and life-long support for those affected by stroke. When you consider 100,000 people have strokes each year in the UK, there’s never been a more apt time to enrol as stroke café volunteers.
Alison Brown, Global Systems Administrator, walked 13 miles around Ullswater lake in Cumbria on 10th June to raise money for the Alzheimer’s Society. With a family member recently diagnosed with the disease, the aim of Alison’s mammoth Lake District trek was to generate essential cash to fund the charity’s campaigns, ground-breaking research and vital support services for everyone living with dementia.
Alison comments:
“The walk was so much fun but tricky in parts due to unstable footings and oppressive temperatures during the heatwave. Let’s just say things got sweaty and I almost jumped in the lake at one point to cool down! I’m delighted to report that, despite the odds, I completed the 13-mile walk and raised over £500 for dementia sufferers in the process.”
Susan Rodgers, Director of Global Professional Services, is volunteering at the Manchester International Festival (MIF). Combining her passion for the arts and music with the desire to devote her time to worthy causes, the festival in her home city of Manchester was an obvious and fitting choice for Susan who’s eager to play her part in bringing together different artists and types of art – for unforgettable experiences.
Susan states:
“I’m a long-time volunteer for MIF and I’ve been lucky enough to work with artists globally. As well as its international focus, MIF gives local communities the opportunity to create art, an example being Manchester Street Poem where Karl Hyde collaborated with homeless people to produce an installation telling their stories. Manchester is a vibrant city full of art, music, theatre and dance, and being part of MIF allows me to be part of something that shows the rest of the world what an amazing and diverse place it is.”
An unexpected wellbeing boost
It’s widely recognised that spending time away from the usual office routine for philanthropic exercises brings welcome respite and instils feel-good vibes for considerable mental health benefits.
A happier workforce is a more productive workforce so concentrating on charity and volunteering is a win-win situation – for employees (who feel valued and satisfied), for employer (we’re able to improve the offerings upon which our service-based business depends) and for clients (who experience higher levels of customer care).
Nicola Moore-Miller concludes:
“One of the primary reasons I decided to set up my own company was to build something to be truly proud of; this being a business that’s inherently ethical and compassionate, and upholds integrity and collaboration between like-minded individuals who want to be kind in all aspects of their lives. With Jayva, I’ve achieved exactly that.
“We’re enabling our team to support their chosen charities by donating their time to causes close to their hearts. Our newly created paid-leave-for-volunteering scheme has resulted in a real feel-good factor within our business as we collectively seek to make a positive difference in the world around us.”