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We're on the hunt for good cat and dog causes to support this year! We've been supporting over 135 charities locally after last year's Facebook campaign, where customers nominated their preferred local charity via the store's Facebook page and our customers voted on which one their local store should support. This year, we'd like each store to support a cat charity and a dog charity! So, if you know of a good cause (cat or dog related) that would benefit from some food donations and generating awareness / campaign support locally through store activities, make sure you nominate your preferred charity before Weds 14th May! Simply find the store Facebook page for your local Jollyes and add your nomination in the comments. Good luck to all the nominations! :)
On Sunday, a brave pack of Jollyes colleagues (lead by 'top dog' CEO Joe) took to the streets of Southport in the 'Mad Dog 10k' - an annual event that was well received and sponsored by Jollyes for the local community. Whilst some sprinted round like greyhounds, others took a little more time and most were a bit 'dog tired' on Monday, but a great day was had by all! Well done to all the runners and special thanks to the amazing volunteers and 'mad dog' team for making it all happen.
Family-friendly benefits update! 👩👦👨👨👧👧👩👩👦👨👧👦👨👨👧 Our benefits have been reviewed and improved to support colleagues to remain with Jollyes and have fulfilling careers whilst also achieving their personal / family related goals. 🙌🎯 Recently announced at our 'roadshow' business updates for our retail colleagues, were the following: - Maternity leave enhanced from six weeks to six months - Paternity leave enhanced from two weeks to four weeks - Paid leave for fertility appointments, neonatal and baby loss - Career Paws - enables colleagues to take a sabbatical of up to 6m We're working on updating our careers site with these additional benefits but you heard it here first! 🐾 Check out our vacancies to see if we have the purrrfect role for you 😍🐾 https://careers.jollyes.co.uk/home #jollyescareers #jollyesbenefits #jollyesjobs #Benefits #familyfriendly #familyfriendlybenefits
😍🐾 Our next new opening is this Friday in Leyland! (PR25 2TE). Followed by East Kilbride and Cardiff stores at the end of November... More new store openings planned for 2025 so if you're keen to combine your passion for pets with a rewarding career in retail, check out our careers site to see if we have the purrrfect role for you! 👀 🐾🥰 https://careers.jollyes.co.uk/home
Fur-st Impressions . . . Here at Jollyes we understand how our pets can help reduce anxieties or make us feel happier or more 'ourselves', so if you're coming to meet us for an interview, we're more than happy for you to bring your pet along with you for company if they would help you feel more at ease. As friendly as we are, we know interviews can be daunting even for the most confident of candidates. We try and help up front with our 'how we recruit' guidance so you know what to expect from us when you come to meet us, so if you haven't checked out our careers page yet, you'll find that here: https://careers.jollyes.co.uk/how-we-recruit Ultimately we're all 'pet people' and would love to meet you and your pet if you decide you'd like to bring them to your interview!
Our new careers site is now live and shares lots of information about working with us here at Jollyes. Including all live vacancies, our brand and company story, our people, our values and sustainability initiatives, plus all the great reasons to join us, including all our perks and benefits (there are lots!), charity partnerships and community info, social media channels so you can follow our progress. Also some advice on how we recruit to support candidates coming to meet us for interview and answers to some frequently asked questions. So, if you haven't checked it out yet click the link below and get to know us - we'd love to know what you think!
Our new openings programme is keeping us busy! We were thrilled to bring the Jollyes team to Nuneaton recently and have more stores due to open in Blackburn, Chester and East Kilbride in the coming months. Cutting the ribbon was The Rt. Hon. Countess Bathurst, Trustee of the National Foundation for Retired Service Animals (NFRSA) accompanied by some of our ambassadogs and NFRSA ex-service dogs (police) with their handlers, and Jollyes store team and support colleagues.
Yesterday we announced an exciting partnership for Jollyes with the National Foundation for Retired Service Animals. The partnership will run alongside the local charities each of our 100-plus stores support and our charity partnership with BILLYCHIP CIC. We will help NFRSA support the care, well-being, and welfare of retired service animals from across the emergency service family - the police, fire, border force, NHS and prison services. The partnership will start at the opening of our Nuneaton store on Friday 28th June and revamped Newcastle store on Saturday 29th June. Over the next 12 months, all stores will be raising money for NFRSA with collections matched by Jollyes up to £20,000 that will help NFRSA support retired service animals and their owner. The founder of NFRSA, Countess Bathurst said “Jollyes’ passion is for pets and their families and the NFRSA’s passion is for retired service animals across the country, so our amazing new partnership has the most extraordinary synergy and energy. Our duty is to care for them at every level and I’m delighted and deeply grateful that Jollyes and the NFRSA are joining hands to make that happen.” Our CEO Joe Wykes said “...I’m thrilled that in both Nuneaton and Newcastle we’ll be launching our partnership with NFRSA – we already know how generous our customers and colleagues are and we’ll work hard over the coming months to make a real difference for the retired service animals under their care.”
We were delighted to share at our annual conference a review of the past year at Jollyes. We're so proud of our "pack", and the outstanding work and results which have been driven by our colleagues across the business. A huge thank you to each and every one of you and of course our supplier partners who help to ensure we deliver a great experience day in day out for our customers!
We're on the hunt for a Charity of your choice! Our local communities are important to us and we'd love to be able to support local charities which have been nominated by you! Check out the LinkedIn post below - or if you follow us on Facebook you may have seen our ads on there too. If you have a relevant charity that's close to your heart tell us about them and we'll shortlist the top two and ask our followers to vote!
