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💛 Brilliant people bringing brilliant values to life At SMG, our values aren’t just something we talk about, they’re lived and breathed by our people every day. From challenging the norm to showing up with honesty, energy, and heart, our values shape how we work and who we are. This quarter, we asked our Q1 Values Award winners: What do our values look like in action? Their answers say it all! 👏 A huge congratulations to Izzy, Treena, Connor, and Jade - thank you for Staying Hungry, Staying Honest, Staying Foolish… and always Having Fun!
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We hope everyone had a lovely bank holiday weekend! On Wednesday SMG kicked off the 4 day weekend a little early with a 3pm finish and a very special celebration in our London and Manchester offices.
Last week marked the end of the FMCG Silver Accreditation Insight Apprenticeship. For 8 weeks the Insight Team has led a series of sessions to upskill the apprentices on all things data, our Plan-Apps offering and beyond. We celebrated the end of the programme with a Plan App-letini, some DIY your own trendline bars and chocolate medals for those who had gained their silver certification! Congratulations to Georgina Savva and Tara McGarvey for winning Insight Apprentices of the year and well done to the Insight Team for leading such a wonderful training programme.
Over the weekend we hosted our first ever Friends and Family Fun-Day! Blessed with fantastic weather, we came together at Go Ape Delamere Forest, near Liverpool, and Battersea Park in London for some fun on the High Ropes, Crazy Golf and Segways. It was an excellent opportunity to meet each other's friends and families and we can't wait to get together again in the future!
For Mental Health Awareness week at SMG, we reminded our team of all of our tools available that have been designed to help them to find their own wellbeing balance. So whether that's our Wellbeing fund to be able to select something personal to them, using our Headspace subscription, or the employee assistance programme, our aim is that the resources available support our employees in some way. We recognise the importance of this topic, so as a business we'll continue to raise awareness, encourage open conversations and share steps we can all take to improve our overall wellbeing.
This month we have two winners of our monthly AGM award! Congratulations to Katie Addison! For juggling a workload of events planning and campaign brieifing. Never giving up or allowing any obstacles to defeat her! Katie was nominated for the Stay Hungry category. Well done to the entire Deliveroo Team for all their hard work and their amazing display of working together as a team! Team Deliveroo were nominated for the Stay Honest category.
The Trussell Trust has been SMG's charity partner for many years, supporting our CSR mission to 'Help Stop UK Hunger'. To date, much of our support has been given through various fundraising initiatives and voluntary work at local food banks. However, this week, members of the SMG CSR working group strengthened our support by delivering a social media training seminar to social media leads at several Manchester Food Banks who all want to improve their social media strategy. By using our agency expertise, we were able to support the Trussell Trust to better understand how they can use their social media platforms to generate more awareness for their cause. The session was recorded and will be shared with a further 12 food banks this week. We're hoping this is the first in a series of useful training seminars that we can deliver to the Trussell Trust. A big thankyou to Rob McGlynn of crossover communications, Jess Merulla and Daniel Smith of SMGs {Capture} and Threefold agencies and Joanna Hill, Area Manager for the Greater Manchester network of foodbanks, for arranging the session.
SMG is a World Class company to work for! Have a look at what some of our team had to say about what it's like to work here. If you want to work for our world class company please take a look at our open roles here; https://lnkd.in/gp_xiQs
Recently SMG received the highest accreditation for employee engagement, awarding us the title of a World Class organisation! Following the Best Companies Live announcement we have also received our league table results and are very proud to share with you our positions: ⭐️11th - Q1 Best Mid-Sized Company to work for ⭐️2nd - Q1 Best Marketing & Media Agency ⭐️3rd - Q1 Best Mid-sized company to work for London ⭐️20th - Q1 Best Mid-sized company to work for North West It's a huge achievement which we are really proud of!
