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Charity

26 mile trek for charity

A big congratulations to our colleague Cat Kelly who completed a 26 mile trek on the 31st August for the Alzheimers Society. Along with her sister, Cat managed to raise a whooping £1,740 for the charity. The trek started and finished at Hudson’s Field, Salisbury taking in the famous landmarks of Salisbury Cathedral (pictured below)

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Charity

Sleeping out for a great cause

Team Chequers have taken on another challenge for charity, this time swapping their cosy beds for the hard-concrete floor for one night to raise important funds for homelessness charity Evolve. Layered up with their sleeping bags in tow, 7 members of our team headed to Box Park Croydon on Sunday 24th March to take part

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Celebration & Awards

Celebrating Success

We are thrilled and proud to announce the promotion of two of our valued team members, Alexandra Magalhaes and Marco Silva to the title of Associate Directors.     Both Alexandra and Marco have proved themselves to be crucial members of the Chequers team and we are extremely proud of their achievements. Alexandra began her career

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Environmental

Chequers Charge to Sustainability

January brings forth a new year of excellence, collaboration and one of our core values, sustainability. With an ever-changing city landscape, an innovative new scheme has Chequers Contract Services leading the charge for a greener London. A new Transport for London initiative called Go Ultra Low City (GULCS) has enabled boroughs to work alongside businesses

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Charity

Team Chequers Raise Over £1000

Once again Team Chequers have done us proud, raising over £1000 for charity at a run in Hyde Park! Nine Chequers employees took part in the annual Lady Garden Run to raise money for the Gynaecological Cancer Fund.   Georgia, Marcus, Mason, Sina, Arshia, Katie, Amanda, Cat and Alexandra all ran 5k in support of

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Community

Dementia Action Week

Some of our newest employees became Dementia Friends as part of National Dementia Action Week this week.   Apprentices Sufyaan, Sina and Richard joined Mason from our Recruitment Team for the session which raised awareness of the difficulties people face when living with dementia.   Those of you who work on senior living or extra-care

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Celebration & Awards

Chequers Certified Gold

In recognition of our continued commitment to sustainability and reducing our carbon footprint, we have been awarded the Carbon Smart Gold certification!   To take a proactive stance and address our contribution to climate change, we have committed to the Carbon Smart Programme.   Being Carbon Smart means taking an intelligent and flexible approach to

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Celebration & Awards

Apprentices Celebrated as we Welcome New Recruits

At Chequers, we were incredibly proud to see three of our former apprentices graduate from Croydon College last month.   Joe, Danielle and Marcus have all accepted full time roles within the company after completing their course, and were officially presented with their diploma’s at a ceremony in March.   Our CEO Rosaleen Liard was

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Environmental

CarbonClean Gives Our Engines A Boost

Whether it be all the vehicles in our fleet, or the machinery used by our Grounds Maintenance Department, it’s clear we have a lot of engines at Chequers.   We’ve recently been looking at how we can use these engines more efficiently, and in a more eco-friendly way.   As part of our commitment to

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Cleaning

Employees of the Month

  January saw two of our members of team Chequers awarded the Employee of the Month title after going the extra mile.   Mandy Toddington and Nathan Drew have both exceeded expectations and taken onboard an ethos of continuous improvement in their respective roles.   Mandy is part of our cleaning team in our commercial

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