As part of the launch of the mental health and well-being platform Lifespeak, the subject of environmental consumerism has been selected allowing the creation of a month dedicated to this theme. Several related activities to this topic were organized. The first one was  waste collection on the Colart’s site. Thanks to the participation of around twenty employees and for 1 hour, several kilos of waste were picked up ( cigarettes, boxes, crystal, plastics, household wastes).
We sincerely thank all the volunteers for their commitment to the environment of our company and thus allowing us to have a clean and pleasant site.
 
Dans le cadre du lancement de la plateforme de santé mentale et de bien-être Lifespeak, le sujet de l’environnement consumérisme a été retenu permettant la création d’un mois dédié à ce thème. Plusieurs activités en lien avec ce sujet ont été organisées : la première a été le ramassage des déchets sur le site Colart du Mans. Grâce à la participation d’une vingtaine de salariés et durant 1h, plusieurs kilos de déchets ont pu être ramassés : (cigarettes, cartons, plastique, verre, ordures ménagères…)
Nous remercions sincèrement tous les bénévoles de s’être engagés pour l’environnement de notre société et permis d’avoir ainsi un site propre et agréable. 
 
 

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On Tuesday evening @Liza Kindon rang me to say she had a  swam of bees in her beautiful Magnolia tree, could we come and get them, this being the second swarm this year both originating from a colony that’s lived in an inaccessible part of her chimney for years.  The first swam, which had the original queen,  was collected by a fellow bee keeper several weeks ago and now with a new virgin queen another swarm relocated from her chimney. So, my other half (pictured in the beekeeper suit) and I leapt into action and buzzed off to get them and today they’re going to a lovely rural farm location (pic 1) where we keep some of our bees, others are in a local churchyard.   Team Kidderminster Sustainability doing  our bit for the planet,  as soon as we have some honey from the bees Liza will be able to sample her own bees work.
 

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Please check out our latest sustainability report – a truly collaborative project, thank you to all who have contributed, please share with your teams and your own external networks. 

OUT NOW! Sustainability Report 2021-2022

If you have any feedback let us know at sustainability@colart.co.uk
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During 2021 when COVID-19 was taking its toll on the business, we decided to seize the opportunity to upskill our team.
We sourced two training courses which we thought would benefit both the individuals and the business and as a bonus we managed to obtain local funding, so we didn’t have to pay a penny for the training or dip into the Colart levy pot! We had a huge uptake on the courses, better than we could have ever expected.
We offered the team two courses: A Level 2 Diploma in manufacturing, this was taken up by most of our supervisors and team leaders and the second was a course in Kaizen (lean manufacturing) with a unit on Net Zero (sustainability) this was taken up by 13 of our factory team.
So, today we received confirmation that each one had passed their course. This was a very proud day for the management team so we wasted no time in gathering the site together to present our learners with their well-deserved certificates and celebrated their achievement as a factory with a roaring round of applause.
Adrian announced how incredibly proud he and the management team are of each of them and expressed how we hope their new skills will bring them confidence in putting forward suggestions for continuous improvement on site.
A massive well done!
#teamsnazaroo
#oneteamonedream
#teamworkmakesthedreamwork
#nevertoooldtolearn

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