Employee Engagement

Damart recognises that a key part of employee retention and a positive work environment is employee engagement. Employee engagement includes a variety of events, activities and reward and recognition throughout the year.

EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT

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V.I.P stands for ‘Values In Practice’ and is Damart’s reward and recognition scheme for colleagues.

Each month colleagues are encouraged to nominate each other for demonstrating the values in ways that are above and beyond their day to day responsibilities.

Nominated colleagues are rewarded with a certificate and a £10 Love to Shop gift voucher.

V.I.P winners are also given the chance to win ‘Employee of The Month’ which is voted for by the Senior Managers and Board of Directors. Employee of the Month wins their choice of a bottle of champagne or £20 Love to Shop vouchers plus an extra days’ holiday.

CHARITY

Charity is a great reason to get everyone involved and have some fun while raising money for the great causes.

Damart has achieved and maintained Heart Research UK’s ‘Healthy Heart Employer’ Gold standard award for several years. To do this we have regular healthy initiatives during the year such as Spin-a-Thon, Step Challenge and health checks for colleagues.

Damart holds an annual ‘Wear it Pink’ day in October in recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, raising money for Breast Cancer Now. Colleagues are encouraged to dress in pink and donate to the charity. We also hold bake sales, raffles and other competitions.

Damart turns silver to recognise The Silver Line! Colleagues are encouraged to dress in silver or 1940’s style and collect their silver change to raise money.

INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS

Damart has many different methods of communicating with colleagues. Not every colleague has access to the same locations so we have to think creatively!

Our internal magazine is called ‘Team Spirit’ and is written by a team of colleagues for the colleagues!

‘Damartex News’ is an update from the international group and covers UK, France and Belgium

Damart-net is our in-house intranet where colleagues can find updates, policies, forms and more.

EVENTS

We are a sociable lot at Damart! We love a good excuse to get everyone together for a party!

Whether it’s on site to celebrate the completion of a project, or a family event with games and fireworks, or just a good old fashioned Christmas party.