Equality in the workplace is about more than pay It’s hard to deny that there is an increased media focus on the gender pay gap as the deadline approaches for large companies to publish their data. At ubu, we are proud that our gender pay gap report shows only a small gap of 2.1%. This…
I often see organisations using the word ‘quality’ to describe their services or products. Whilst I don’t doubt that many of them are delivering what they believe to be quality services, I wonder how they are quantifying this. What does quality mean to them? How do they ensure their employees and suppliers understand how to…
A very happy New Year To you, your family and loved ones We’re only a couple of weeks into 2018 and already we’re hearing about a potential crisis within our National Health Services. With tens of thousands of routine operations cancelled, Trusts have struggled with a lack of beds and their Accident and Emergency Departments…
A very happy New Year To you, your family And loved ones We’re only a couple of weeks into 2018 and already we’re hearing about a potential crisis within our National Health Services. With tens of thousands of routine operations cancelled, Trusts have struggled with a lack of beds and their Accident and Emergency Departments…
Hello everybody, welcome back to my blog, if you’ve been reading my previous posts then you will see that I’ve been having the best time at Jamie Oliver’s cooking classes. These have helped me gain skills and get more confident in my own kitchen. So let me tell you what I got up to in…
Our Fourteenth ‘Sparkle’ Event and Hub Christmas Pantomime Parade At the Hub in Harrogate we got together with people we serve and the ubu Team members to talk about finding a way to make our theme for this year, ‘Unite@Christmas’ something sparkling. We’ve thought a lot about the experiences and feelings that we share and…
Our thirteenth ‘Sparkle’ Event and Christmas Song, Joke and Poem Competition Stefanie who lives with greater independence, enabled by ubu in the East Midlands sent us a fantastic video of the ‘Sparkling’ event she and her friends and neighbours put together for their local community. “We talked about Christmas and what was important to us…
Our twelfth ‘Sparkle’ Event and Christmas Gingerbread Competition Dylan, who is 13 years old from Newcastle has a rare disease called Larsen Syndrome. It’s a condition that has damaged his spinal cord and weakened his joints. Dylan’s health took a turn for the worse this year and now he’s unable to feed himself can’t move…
From tinsel to trees, ribbons to wreaths, and ornaments to gingerbread men, the holiday season is full of colourful Christmas related décor. Today we are celebrating our tenth day of ubu Christmas Competitions and we have been looking for the best homemade decorations. Here is an interesting fact about a common Christmas decoration you may…
Though we may celebrate it as the most wonderful time of the year, winter and the Christmas holiday season can be a particularly difficult time for many people for lots of reasons. This is our traditional time of giving, of being together with our family and friends and of thinking of others around us in…
Though we may celebrate it as the most wonderful time of the year, winter and the Christmas holiday season can be a particularly difficult time for many people for lots of reasons. This is our traditional time of giving, of being together with our family and friends and of thinking of others around us in…