Alliance Boots
Alliance Boots Healthy Communities Programme, piloted with Home-Start in 2007, and since rolled out nationally, partnered Alliance Boots offices and branches with their local Home-Start, to offer a range of volunteering opportunities.
At Home-Start Ashfield a large team of senior managers who run Boots' Eastern region stores gave the scheme a make over. They re-decorated the kitchen, put up new blinds and lights and laid a new floor. Local Home-Starts have little money to spend on their own premises so Boots' staff helping them out was an enormous boost to the scheme.
At Home-Start Malvern Hills, another team from Boots spent the day creating a large 'under the sea' mural on all four walls of the family room.
In Boots' regional office in Bristol more than 30 volunteers, trustees and staff from Home-Start Bristol and Home-Start North Somerset attended a well - deserved pampering session, where eight Boot's staff spent the day giving manicures, pedicures and facials.
One of the Home-Start managers of the programme, Ruth Consterdine said: "We were really impressed by the commitment and energy shown by Boots and by Home-Start's local scheme staff to help make these events a success".
Said Nicki Stockdale: "Supporting the community of which we're a part has long been part of working for Boots. We wanted to give our people a simple route to get involved. As well as this, volunteering is a great way to develop the skills of our people in a completely different setting."
