[New] Homes Together Spreading Christmas Cheer to Employees and Local Causes

Care provider Homes Together partnered with Crimple Garden Centre to provide all 130 of their staff with their Christmas Day Lunch

With many employees feeling the pinch this winter amidst rising energy bills and inflation Homes Together aims to help support its employees cover some of the cost of Christmas by providing them with hampers from Harrogate-based Crimple Garden Centre The hampers will include a Turkey with all of the trimmings along with a homemade fruit crumble and a custard pot Each hamper will contain enough food for four people

As well as helping to support its employees this year Homes Together will also donate Christmas Lunch hampers for all services of Harrogate Homeless Project The charity provides people experiencing homelessness with a safe place to stay and the support they need to build confidence and move towards independent living In addition to the food donations, Homes Together will be making a cash donation to Harrogate Homeless Project to further support the vital work that it provides for vulnerable people in the Harrogate area

David Ashton-Jones Managing Director of Homes Together said: “With the cost-of-living crisis affecting so many people we are very happy to be giving something back to our employees that work so tirelessly to ensure all of our service users receive the best possible care We re looking at numerous ways we can support our employees through these difficult times and hope this is the first step in helping to ease some of the stresses that Christmas can bring

We are also conscious that there are people within our community that are unfortunately without a home this Christmas so we have extended our support to Harrogate Homeless Project by providing further hampers along with a cash donation to be able to give something back to our local community, and we’re delighted to be able to help Harrogate Homeless project with the amazing work that it does

Extraordinarily, and in true Christmas spirit, a large proportion of Homes Together employees decided to donate their own Christmas hampers that were gifted to them to Harrogate Homeless Project

Thomas Richards Fundraising Manager at Harrogate Homeless Project says:

We are overjoyed by Homes Together s donation and even more so by the generosity of their Harrogate-based employees who have kindly donated their own Christmas hampers that they have been gifted As a result we now have over thirty Christmas dinner hampers from Crimple

Harrogate Homeless Project is currently experiencing an increase in demand for our services as the most vulnerable people in our society are being impacted by the rising cost of living The support given to us from Homes Together has never been more important

With the recent announcement that made com is going into administration1 and further layoffs at Meta Group and Twitter, the worry over job loss may grow in a variety of industries

Life insurance broker Reassured has taken a closer look at different industries and ranked the most secure sectors looking at redundancy rates over the last 10 years

Looking at the past 10 years the top sector for job security is human health and social work This industry has a redundancy rate of 1 43, closely followed by education with a rate of 1 49

Public admin and law also appear to be the third most secure sector, holding a redundancy rate of 1 77 But then there is a substantial drop with job security rates sitting at 3 51 and 3 61 when it comes to professional scientific and technical roles and the agricultural fishing and utilities sector But things are looking up for the agricultural industry as it has the least amount of redundancies compared to any other sector in 2021

Looking at the years from 2011 to 2021 the public administration and defence sector saw the biggest decline in redundancies in fact, in 2021 the sector saw 68 2% fewer redundancies Construction saw 65% less job loss, however scientific and technical jobs (21 8%), manufacturing (20 1%) and hospitality services (19 5%) have seen the least changes over the 10-year period

The UK s best areas for job security

It would appear that Northern Ireland is the best location to seek secure employment with a redundancy total of just 7 579 Even though the Northeast experiences nearly double the number of redundancies (14 663) the region comes in second closely followed by Wales with 15,218 jobs made redundant

Scotland (26 431) and the East Midlands (28 473) are regions with fewer redundancies Considering the population in each region Northern Ireland still shows the lowest redundancy rate (2 55), closely followed by Scotland with a rate of 2 81

Wales also had one of the lowest redundancy rates (3 00) and so did Yorkshire and The Humber (3 31)

A spokesperson from Reassured commented on the research: With rising costs many companies are experiencing significantly higher outgoings, potentially resulting in changes to a company’s structure

Unfortunately this can subsequently affect the employees if job cuts are required Whilst income protection insurance cannot protect against redundancy it can cover you if you are injured or too ill to work This reassuring safety blanket could help many people in the UK ”

A care home in Hindhead has continued to countdown to Christmas by welcoming some very special visitors

Signature at Moorlands Lodge, which provides nursing, respite dementia and residential care to 90 residents, arranged the visit of Latte and Bubbles to visit residents relatives and their loved ones

Latte and Bubbles who are a pair of 11 and 12 year old reindeer dropped by for a spot of lunch in the gardens at Moorlands Lodge Residents and their loved ones hand-fed the reindeer their festive favourites namely sliced carrots and handfuls of their special dried moss

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Their arrival added to the care home s Christmas Family Day which also saw it welcome members of the local community by serving up mince pies and a festive hot drink

The visit added to a series of festive activities organised in the run up to the Christmas Holidays by the care home This included birthday girl Pamela Bleach marking her 92nd birthday earlier this month by turning on the home’s Christmas lights a residents outing to RHS Garden Wisley a Carol service at St Lukes Church and several entertainers coming into the home