Archives for August 2019

50^th Anniversary Balloon – A Surprise in the Sky

It is Regular Cleaning’s 50^th Anniversary this year and we recently celebrated our success with our clients, employees and staff at our Family Fun Day celebration event. It was a successful day enjoyed by many and as patrons of CACT all of our donations received will go towards The Upbeats charity. Please keep your eyes peeled for the photos in the next few weeks!

Almost a week after our event, we were surprised to receive an email from a family in Sweden with the below caption and photo attached J

“This evening this lovely balloon came floating in the ocean towards us during our evening stroll. Now the kids are so curious if the balloon derives from your celebration or not?”

Carina from Halmstad on the Swedish westcoast

It turns out that our 50^th Anniversary balloon had made its way over to the Swedish West Coast to greet this lovely family! We were amazed that it had survived the long ride and are extremely grateful to the family for sharing the photo with us and for taking the time to capture the moment.

In aid of sustainability, we would like to note that we did not deliberately let our balloon go – unfortunately this one escaped but it did indeed end up being a lovely Surprise in the Sky for all.

With special thanks to the family from everyone at Regular Cleaning.

We are delighted to hear the news that our Prime Minister Boris Johnson has agreed that all government departments should pay their cleaners a real Living Wage.

Via the BBC News, Premier League Football clubs have also been urged to pay all staff above minimum wage rate after spending £1.41 billion on players. It is said that only four out of 20 Premier League clubs are accredited by the Living Wage Foundation – please click here to view the full article – https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49288182

As a recognised London Living Wage service provider, Regular Cleaning are committed to paying our cleaning staff the living wage that they deserve wherever our client’s budget will allow for it. As a minimum we guarantee that all of our Head Office, Management and Administrative staff are paid above the London Living Wage.

Regular Cleaning strongly believe that if our employees are looked after then our clients will be too. Paying the Living Wage is not only good for business but also good for the individual and society, providing the benefits of reduced absenteeism, increased staff retention, motivation, morale and productivity. As well as the obvious social impact of improving the personal lives of our employees.

We would like to thank those of our clients who have become a Living Wage Employer through us. We will continue to encourage an open dialogue with all of our clients, as we strongly believe in the benefits to us as an employer, to our employees and to our clients of making the positive steps towards paying the Living Wage.

If you would like to find out more information on the London Living Wage or how to become a Living Wage Employer, please visit – https://www.livingwage.org.uk/what-real-living-wage

Regular Cleaning are extremely passionate about what we can do as a company to help improve the issues surrounding Sustainability.

We know that Sustainability doesn’t happen overnight – however if we start slowly and work together on this, we will be one step closer to a better sustainable future.

We are able to recycle a number of things that would otherwise go in to landfill. Please see below our new initiatives that we have recently implemented among our clients, employees and head office staff:

Recycling Disposable Gloves

Every year disposable gloves end up in landfill across the UK. Regular Cleaning are working to put an end to this enormous waste production and loss of resources.

We began by trialling the recycling of our used disposable gloves at 4 different sites over the past few months and are now starting to enrol the scheme across the majority of our contracts. As a company we use approximately 500,000 gloves per year, therefore this new scheme will be an extraordinary reduction in our contribution to plastics going to landfill and a fantastic start to something we are dedicated to reducing as much as possible. We would like to thank our colleagues who have helped us with getting this excellent new sustainability initiative rolled out, as well as our service provider Mayflower who are running this service for us.

We look forward to keeping you up to date with the figures on what we have saved from landfill! Watch this space!

Plastic Recycling Boxes

Another scheme that we have recently implemented are plastic recycling collection boxes. At our Regular Cleaning Head Office, we have plastic packaging bins to help to encourage our collegues to recycle, this can include:

Plastic packaging (anything not usually recyclable)

Our aim is to weigh our existing boxes before collection, ensuring that we keep track of our recycling record with regards to plastics removed from landfill.

This approach seems to have really taken off at Head Office as we have already overfilled our boxes! Going forward we have ordered a larger box, however we would like to thank our staff for embracing this new initiative so well. We feel that this will make such a positive impact on the amount that both we as a business, as well as individuals send to landfill.

We will of course keep you update on our progress!

As patrons of CACT, Regular Cleaning would like to wish Charlton Athletic all the best in their return to the Championship this season! Regular Cleaning have a West Sand Executive Box at Charlton that we regularly offer out to our clients and employees to help build partnerships. It is a great experience for all and one that proves extremely popular with the football fans!

For more on information on CACT please visit – www.cact.org.uk