Celebrations across FitzRoy for our Staff Thank You Week 2024

Each year FitzRoy celebrates the incredible work going on across the organisation every day with our staff Thank You Week, which has seen celebrations around the country this week. There have been some amazing parties, incredible cakes, awards and certificates – and lots of thanking!

Together with the directors, our Chief Executive Angela has been visiting our services around the country all week to celebrate with our colleagues and hand out awards.

She said: “This has been the most amazing and humbling week. I’ve seen the hundreds of thank yous that have been going out across the country to colleagues and peers and managers and different staff and it just shows how much love there is within the organisation.”

It’s just amazing the way that staff support our residents and the people that we support at all of our services. The bravery and the creativity that you see every single day is just outstanding. So thank you, thank you, thank you from the bottom of my heart to everyone for everything that you do every single day.

With so much incredible work going on across FitzRoy, it’s always an incredibly difficult job to pick out winners for our Thank You Awards, so a huge congratulations to this year’s award winners:

Above and Beyond regional award 

For the person who has:

• Consistently gone above and beyond for the people they support.
• Made an impact on the service performance or outcomes.
• Helped create a culture of seeing the person, being creative and being brave.

Congratulations to our winners

• Toby Sutherland, East region
• Chris Dawson, South
• Ajibade Olutayo, East Midlands
• Esther Moyo, West Midlands

Living My Life regional awards

For the person who has:

• Demonstrated Living My Life outcomes through their work encouraging and supporting active support.
• Been able to demonstrate the positive impact this has had for the people they support.
• Role modelled to other staff the benefits of Living My Life outcomes.

Congratulations to our winners:

• Chrissie England – East region
• Sandra Aplin & Caroline Morgan – South
• Callum Staniforth – East Midlands
• Louise Marshall – West Midland

And the winners of our national awards:

Transformational Change Award –  for her and the team at Webb House as they embrace digital support planning, Phil Davy

Fundraising & Community Engagement – for their incredible work over the year, building relationships, working with families, sourcing gifts in kind and fundraising, Carol Foord & the Boldshaves Oast team

Recruitment Award – for her creative and flexible approach and warm welcome, Mandy Lashbrook

Training Award – for going above and beyond with her determined and proactive approach to ensure staff training needs are met, Charlie Budden

Digital Innovation Award – for embracing technology and its potential to transform lives, Michal Bell

Property Award – for their creativity in managing the huge disruptions during refurbishments, Huws nursing care home, Notts.

Finance Award – for her proactive approach to managing the finances of her services and the people we support, Tracy Gibson-Whent

And last but certainly not least, congratulations to our Team of The Year – The Maltings Day Service, for their incredible work throughout the year, and laying on FitzRoy’s first every fully inclusive festival, FitzFest. They are already planning for FitzFest 2025!

A huge well done to each and every one of our worthy winners!

With so many celebrations and award winners, unfortunately we can’t share all the photos, but here is a small selection.