The RailStaff Awards 2024

Nominations for Rail Team of the Year

Karen Grimshaw

Said the following about community champs at Manchester and Stockport:

“Nomination for Stockport Station Community Champs working with the Community and local Stake Holders

On Friday 20th May 2022, the Sustainability Champions of Stockport & Manchester joined forces with the Bee Sanctuary Movement to create an event to mark World Bee Day.

The schools were Ashbury Meadow Primary (2 classes (30 each) plus teachers) and Claremont Primary School (1 class plus teachers).

Stockport Community Champs Lisa Magee and Amelia Bateman along with Manchester Community Champs Geoff Baker and Jordan Pitt successfully joined forces with the Bee Sanctuary Movement to create an event to mark World Bee Day. Supporting our School Engagement Programme, they invited two of our schools along to learn about the importance of the bee, to make bee bombs, help build a bee hotel, learn about the Manchester Worker Bee, help shape the future of our planet and draw their ideas for it on paper. The visits ended with a tour of a fascinating local reserve hidden on the fringe of Manchester, both children, teachers & volunteers engaged in what we hope may become an annual event.

The event came off the champions attending an internal Sustainability Champions Conference where they were tasked to come up with an idea to deliver an event which hit one or more of the four key pillars of our Responsible Business Plan – this event touched our Planet and our Communities pillars. They were all stars individually and collectively for a whole raft of reasons but the artwork that Amelia produced was off the scale amazing!

Supporting the School Engagement Programme, two of our schools came along to learn about the importance of the bee, to make bee bombs, help with a bee hotel, learn about the Manchester Worker Bee, help shape the future of our planet & draw their ideas for it on paper. Finishing with a tour of this fascinating local reserve hidden on the fringe of Manchester, both children, teachers & volunteers engaged in what we hope may become an annual event.“