Crossmatch News
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Crossmatch Gains Gold Award
15/11/2007
We are proud to announce that we have been awarded the Keep Edinburgh Clean Gold Award. Run by The City of Edinburgh Council, this is an environmental initiative with which we have been involved for the past 3 years. In fact, in 2005, we were the first organisation in Edinburgh to achieve the Silver Award (see 'Keeping it Clean' below). Everyone in our team is enthusiastic about our efforts in the business to seek the most environmentally-friendly option where possible. The range of aspects it covers is a wide one. We re-cycle just about everything we can, such as paper, cardboard, toner cartridges, plastic bottles, even Ken's jokes. We purchase Fairtrade where possible, sponsor some reindeer and last year fixed a bird-hide and a dry-stane dyke in the Pentlands.
National Temporary Workers Week (NTWW) 2007
4 - 8 June 2007
National Temporary Workers Week (NTWW) is an annual campaign organised by the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) to promote the contribution made to the economy by the UK's temporary workforce. Turnover in temporary recruitment was £21.6 billion last year and each week 1.2 million temps go out on assignment. On behalf of Crossmatch Recruitment, we would like to thank all of our temps for the work that they do, and for representing us to our clients.
If you would like to find out more about NTWW and the temping industry, there are more details on the REC website at www.rec.uk.com.
To mark the occasion, we have a competition exclusively for Crossmatch temps in the Temp Members' area of this website. But hurry - the deadline for getting your answers to us is Thursday 7 June 2007 at 5pm. Good luck!
Annabelle Completes Twilight Walk
26/5/2007
Following her successful Moonwalk in Edinburgh last year, director Annabelle McCunn has put her walking boots on again, this time to take part in the Twilight Walk, in aid of Breast Foot Forward, the Scottish breast cancer charity. This involved walking the perimeter of the island of Cumbrae, a distance of 10.25 miles. Thanks to the sponsorship and many donations from friends, clients and colleagues, she managed to raise a total of £275. She would like to pass on her thanks to everyone for their support in helping to achieve this total. For more information on the charity, go to http://breast.etellect.co.uk/walk.htm. Here are a few photographs of Annabelle (on the right above) and fellow-travellers on the day.
Investors in People Success - for the 4th Time
17/01/2007
We are proud to announce that we have been awarded the Investors in People (IIP) Standard for the 4th time. We first became an Investor in People in 1998. In order to retain the award, an organisation has to be re-assessed every 3 years, which we have been in 2001, 2004 and now 2007. For more background on the Standard and why we continue to go for it, see our Investors in People page in the Code of Practice section. You can also click on the logo at the top of this page, which will take you to the IIP website.
Pentland Hills Volunteer Days - 8th/9th Nov 2006
16/11/06
This is Annabelle (right) handing over a donation of £100 to Susan Falconer of the Pentland Hills Ranger Service (centre) as part of our commitment to the environment. This was only one part of a fantastic day of volunteering in the Pentlands, undertaken by the entire Crossmatch team. We split ourselves into two groups in fact, one on Wednesday 8th and the other on Thursday 9th November, so as not to leave our office completely unattended!
We completed a variety of tasks, including repairing the boardwalk at a bird-hide, repairing a dry-stane dyke and filling in pot-holes in the car-park at Harlaw. The sense of achievement we felt from completing these tasks has surprised us all. And it still left time for an unofficial guided tour of the fungi in the area and the rescue of a dog that had got lost.
We would like to thank Susan Falconer and Victor Partridge from the Ranger Service for making our volunteer days so enjoyable. The tasks they had prepared for us were meaningful and challenging, and their support and encouragement on the day made it fun and educational too.
It was a very different experience from our usual day-to-day business as a city-centre office staff agency. We have always had a keen interest in the environment - last year we were the first organisation to be awarded the Keep Edinburgh Clean Silver Award - but this has given us the opportunity to get involved in a community project beyond our “comfort zone”. We would highly recommend it!
More photos ......
Annabelle Gets Walking - 24th June 2006
26/6/06
Director, Annabelle McCunn, is putting her feet up now, following her completion of the Edinburgh MoonWalk, the all-night power-walking marathon in aid of breast cancer charities, on Saturday/Sunday 24/25 June. Following a rousing send-off by various well-known personalities, held in a huge pink tent in The Meadows, participants set off at midnight. They walked through the night, either for a half marathon (13.1 miles), which is what Annabelle did, or for a full marathon (26.2 miles), sporting brightly decorated bras and various outrageous costumes, much to the amazement of many clubbers as they made their way home in the wee small hours. The event is part of a world-wide series of such walks, organised by Walk the Walk. The Edinburgh event hopes to raise £1 million pounds for cancer charities in Scotland. Well done Annabelle and everyone who took part. See the Walk the Walk website for more information about this event, the history of Walk the Walk and the many others being held around the world.
Walk the Walk Gallery 
Big Brother's Temp Agency
06/06/06
This week Channel 4's Big Brother is celebrating with the recruitment industry by running their own National Temporary Workers Week, setting up Big Brother's Temp Agency and recruiting housemates for a variety of temp roles - from toilet attendant to lifeguard. This is a great coup for Temp Week and the national recognition of temps everywhere!
For the full story, click on the link below:
Thank you to all our temps
National Temporary Workers Week: 5-9 June 2006
05/06/2006
As part of National Temporary Workers Week (NTWW), we at Crossmatch Recruitment are holding a party for all of those temps who are currently working for us to say thank you for all of their hard work throughout the year.
Click on the link below for more about NTWW and some temping facts.
Hope You Like It 
Keeping it Clean
01/03/2006
In 2005, we were delighted to be informed by the City of Edinburgh Council that we would be the first company in Edinburgh to gain 'Silver' in the 'Keep Edinburgh Clean' award.
Temp Survey
01/03/2006
A new Recruitment and Employment Confederation survey has taken place on temporary workers.