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Smith & Nephew Advanced Wound Management continues to be committed to its work in the community, sponsoring and partnering organisations and charities that help people regain their lives.
In addition to its formal Corporate Social Responsibility programme, which supports local charities and community organizations, Smith & Nephew in Hull also embraces other opportunities to support the local community.
Wansbeck Primary School
Twelve volunteers from Smith & Nephew Wound Management completed an environmental garden within the schools grounds. This involved completion of a new pond with fencing, a flower bed, herb wheel and vegetable garden, and the children have now grown their own vegetables and sunflowers. The school invited the volunteers to a tea party with HRH The Duchess of Kent, who is school governor.
The ITV Big Clean Up - Foredyke Primary School
The ITV Big Clean Up event was a massive event across the North of England, where volunteers from businesses across the UK visited a local school, for Hull this was Foredyke Primary School, and a collaborative challenge was undertaken. This wilderness is now a fully functioning garden, with seating area, pond, maze and even a ship!!
Rainbow Community Garden
The Rainbow Garden is a community garden in the north of the city. An Operations Management team building day was organised , where the team carried out some heavy work that the usual volunteers cannot do, including clearing and cutting back plants, some painting, weeding and weaving a 26 foot long willow archway.
Thoresby Primary School
The Facilities Management team also went out into the community for a team building day, where they cut and laid a path throughout the school garden and cleared it to enable the pupils to use the garden for their environmental studies. This challenge also included delivery of some composting bins to encourage the school to recycle.
Cares@Christmas Underprivileged Children’s Party
We contributed to the BITC Cares Christmas party again in December 2007 – six employees helped out on the day and the company paid for all food refreshment for all the children and volunteers. This was another collaborative challenge with other businesses in the city contributing, Smith & Nephew being the lead organisation. Children from underprivileged backgrounds were able to attend a Christmas party and the local pantomime. The children were identified by three Hull based organisations DOC (East Hull), SureStart (West Hull) and Unity in the Community (North Hull). By liaising with these three organisations Hull & Humber Cares were able to ensure that their assistance was not focused in just one area of the City. The venue (The Octagon), which is run by The Goodwin Development Trust, was chosen both because of its central location and the fact that it is run as a Social Enterprise for the benefit of local residents.
There were many things for the children to do, including making their own Christmas Cards and gifts boxes. They had their faces painted, a balloon modeller made them gifts and magician, Father Christmas gave them each a gift from his grotto. Lunch was provided with lots if fun party games, then they all went off to the Hull New Theatre to watch the Pantomime.