Don’t sit at home saying it won’t make a difference…
because it does
News Section: Friendship Care and
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Publish Date: 4th October 2011
Author: Kerrie Beck
John Leniston from Loughborough was just one
of Friendship’s customers prepared to stand up in front of a crowd
to say how getting involved can really work. He spoke at
Friendship’s fourth Annual Customer Conference. Other
involved customers also happily spoke up too saying ‘to make
a better place to live, is to work at it, lets all work with
housing’ and ‘have your say, you might be surprised!’
More than 400 customers flooded through the
doors on Thursday 29th September at The New Bingley Hall
in Birmingham. The day delivered on its promise, to provide a fun
filled day and to find out more about Friendship.
Everyone got in the mood from the offset
when good sports from the staff teams formed a ‘for one day only’
dance troupe. The F ‘n’ B Rock Chicks performing lively dance
routines to a medley of songs earning rapturous applause from the
audience.
The day was jam-packed with interactive
workshops led by Friendship’s teams, which included a TV soaps
quiz, an anti social behaviour drama workshop and ‘Who Wants to be
a Sqillionaire’ with the chance for customers to win up to a £100
in vouchers.
There were over fifty information and advice
stalls with lots of freebies and prizes on offer. The Well-Being
Zone went down well too with customers experiencing Mendhi hand
painting, mini massages, manicures and nail painting.
Brand new to this years conference was the
‘Street Party’, which included giant snakes and ladders, beat the
goalie, The Cube and Friendship’s gardening contractor Vale
provided hanging baskets and garden pot making.
Event organiser, Victoria Young, Customer
Involvement Manager at Friendship said:
“I’m absolutely thrilled that each year more
and more customers decide to join us at our conference and that
they can now see that getting involved really does work and
benefits them.”
