An Award Winning Business

• CommunityMark accreditation
  from Business in the Community achieved
• 'Big Tick' Award
  for Co-operative Community Investment in the Active Communities category in the Business in The Community Awards for Excellence 2009
• 'Big Tick Award'
  reaccreditation for Rural
• Walsall Endeavours Corporate Social Responsibility Award
  for practical help given to a charity for young people
• Walsall Endeavours Corporate Social Responsibility Awards Overall Winner
  for putting CSR at the heart of their business
• Oxfordshire Investors in Education Award
  for Grove supermarket for helping school develop 'Budget for Life' project
• Gloucestershire Education Business Partnership
  For Education Excellence (Gloucestershire)
• HR Excellence
  Best use of CSR in HR
• Oxfordshire Times Business Awards
  For Education Excellence (Gloucestershire)
• Gold Award
  from Opportunity Now for gender diversity and equality in the workplace
• Food and Drink Federation, 'Silver award'
  Community Partnership Award. The awards scheme celebrates organisations that make a positive difference to the communities they serve

Colleague Awards

• Specsavers Women in Retail
  Donna Hunter (Store Manager) - Store Manager of the Year award.(Finalists - Emma Green - Star of the Future award and Tarra Simmons - Inspiration of the Year award)
• 'Scales' Award
  Richard Vines, who works at J. Hartland in Sedgley, part of Midcounties Co-operative, was given the prestigious 'Scales' award for getting top marks in the National Association of Funeral Directors (NAFD) Diploma
• Walsall Education Business Partnership
  individual award to Marnie Goalby for supporting enterprise in schools
• Walsall Education Business Partnership
  Partnership individual award to Parm Kalirai for supporting enterprise in schools. He was named an Enterprise Ambassador
• National Pharma Awards
  Sarah Newey, pharmacist manager at Dursley, won the Pharmacy Manager of the year award