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It was official Christmas Jumper day today and many of our team joined in to get into the festive spirit. Don't they all look fab!!! We even managed to make Gavin magiaclly appear in our group picture. 🤭 Can you spot him? We were collecting for the Save the Children charity, and everyone donated generously for this amazing cause. Thanks everyone!!! Amazing effort. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 #bodyguardworkwear #christmasjumperday #itsbeginningtolookalotlikechristmas #savethechildren

Season's Greetings Wishing all of our customers and suppliers a fantastic festive break. We look forward to working with you in 2025.

📣 Long Service Awards In November we celebrated the long service of four team members. Our thanks to Matt Parsons, our new MD for presenting the awards and a warm welcome from all of us here at Bodyguard Workwear!! Employment is like a relationship. To succeed, it takes hard work, dedication, commitment, loyalty, reflection and learning from both parties. The fact that we have celebrated so many long service milestones this year just goes to show that it's not just by chance that our team choose to stay here. We are proud and appreciate the efforts of all of our team. So who have we celebrated this month? Sumina Sohal - 5 Years Sumina does all of our overseas buying and we would like to thank her for her work. Responsible for shipment planning, we and our customers rely on her to arrange delivery of all of our EB products. 🛳️ She is a valued member of our team with potential to develop further as the business grows and we look forward to celebrating her next milestone. Jayne Hegney - 5 Years Jayne is our Head of Finance and runs a tight ship, watching the pennies with a laser focus. 👀 🔍 We thank Jayne for her diligence and dedication to the business. Highly revered amongst our team and Bunzl, again we look forward to Jayne not only doubling her length of service, but our profits too 😄 Narinder Panaser - 15 Years Narinder actually celebrates her 16 year milestone. Head of Customer Experience and Operations, there's not a lot about this business that she hasn't been involved in. A diverse and multi-faceted skill-set, 💎 she is dedicated to making the business a success by leading her team to deliver a first class customer experience. A true problem solving mindset, with the belief that if we get things right internally, it will translate to an amazing CX. Kulvir Singh (Jass) - 20 Years Jass is a truly safe set of hands. 👐 He is our branding supervisor and he knows our customers' branding needs inside out. A highly respected and knowledgeable member of our team, we thank Jass for his loyalty and dedication to the business. We look forward to celebrating his quarter century milestone soon. A huge well done and thanks to Team November!!!

Bodyguard Workwear's GORE-TEX range. Although the weather is unusually mild for this time of year, forecasters are describing this as the possible calm before the storm. Regardless, it will get colder and wetter, so what better time to tell you about our Exclusive Brand GORE-TEX range. Visit our Superstore in Birmingham or contact our Corporate Sales team for more details and ensure your teams are geared up adequately in time for the Winter. 📞 0121 359 8880

📣 Here's to 30+ of those 228 years of service we posted about yesterday. Last week we recognised the long service of 2 more members of our team. Mohammed Younas - 20 Years Actually, Younas (that's what we all call him) has been with us for 24 years and will be marking his 25 years next year. We won't go into the detail here, but just go with us when we say, it's just how things have worked out 😀 ✍ and it's not that he has some sort of super power of advancing 5 years in just 1 real year!! Younas works in our Superstore and is well known to, and respected by many of our customers. A responsible, reliable and valued member of our team who everyone has a lot of time for and equally has time for everyone in return. Congratulations Younas on your service milestone . 👏 Matt Richardson - 10 Years Matt is celebrating his 10 year milestone. He has a bit of a way to go yet before he hits his 15 years. Matt is a warehouse supervisor and has learned many of the warehouse and despatch tasks during his time here. He joined us as an apprentice in the warehouse and has a lot less hair now, but that has nothing to do with his work and job (his words, not ours 😁 ). He has been involved in some of the key ERP/despatch integrations and knows the warehouse like the back of his hand. Well done Matt on your achievement. 👏

Length of service - its significance and importance. In 2024, Bodyguard Workwear have been marking the long service of our team members and as I sat thinking about it, it led me down the path of wondering what the total length of service is within our business, and how this has a direct link with customer experience. Firstly, we understand the importance of creating a positive culture and valuing our team, and believe these are just a couple of the reasons we have a high staff retention level within the business, with many team members having been in the business for over 5 years (the national average being just over 4 years). A committed and dedicated team are the bedrock to providing our customers with an unrivalled customer experience.  Furthermore, having diversity within our business, means we benefit from a variety of perspectives.  Secondly, we understand that this loyalty means we can deliver our mission of enabling our customers to focus on what they do best. ⏳ Over 45% of our team have 5 years' or more service behind them, so we can assure our customers consistency of product knowledge and service.  ⏳ The number of service years shows we are a trusted and reliable choice for our staff which goes hand-in-hand in making us the supply partner of choice for so many of our customers.  ⏳ Having so many team members with multiple years of service behind them benefits customers, as there is consistency of customer service and familiarity. ⏳ When our customers choose us, they are also putting their trust in our professionalism, knowledge and expertise.  Thank you to all of our team for everything they do. We couldn't do it without you.

Bodyguard Workwear wish all our customers, suppliers and colleagues a happy and prosperous Diwali. We hope you enjoy the auspicious festival of lights with celebrations full of fun, food and joy.🕯🕯🕯

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At Bodyguard Workwear over 1/3 of our team are female. All of them are at different stages of their menopause journey, but one thing is for sure, it will affect or will have affected each one of them at some point of their lives. Within our business, we focused on the fact that although it's women that experience the menopause, it affects everyone. Unfortunately, the symptoms are such that they often have an impact on personal and work life, social and professional interactions and overall health and wellbeing and by extension affect everyone in some way. As an inclusive employer we wanted to raise awareness and support. Furthermore, due to the cultural and social stigma and taboo around the subject, and even lesser awareness amongst men, we put together an informative pack to also support our male colleagues to get a better understanding of the menopause and its far reaching impact. The pack contained lots of information and signposting to various resources. We created a theme this year, which is ‘Do just one thing’, to encourage everyone to do one thing to either increase their awareness, or support someone important to them, or show some empathy and not be dismissive about what someone might be going through. Many women experiencing symptoms do not feel able to discuss this with their managers or colleagues and suffer in silence and sometimes managers might not feel confident enough around this subject matter, so may avoid it. In future rather than this being a taboo subject or something that may be trivialised, we want to elevate the conversation and bring this important women's health issue into the open.

As Christmas is around the corner why not come along to Bodyguard Workwear where we have a offer on MASCOT® WORKWEAR buy a pair of trousers and a hoodie and you get a free beanie hat and a sports travel bag, for only £120 ideal for a gift or just treat yourself, Hoodie M-2XL Black & Navy Trousers 32R - 38R Black & Navy (not sold separately & while stock last) Bodyguard Workwear Adams Street Birmingham B7 4LS