16 Dec 2022

Christmas Giving at Catch

At Catch, we like to make sure we give something back at this time of year. To help us do so as a team, we scrapped the traditional - and slightly cringeworthy - office Secret Santa in 2019.

Instead, we take part in two charity initiatives - Christmas Jumper Day and Kids Out’s Giving Tree scheme.

Christmas Jumper Day is Save the Children's annual event which raises money for children in the UK and across the world. Every December, we all dust off our most festive jumpers (apart from Gary, our Tech Director, who happily wears his all month) and make donations to Save the Children. We’re happy to say we hit our target very quickly this year.

Designed to be a fun alternative to the traditional Secret Santa, Giving Tree is not only simple to get involved with but a fun exercise for the whole office! Rather than buy each other cheap - and occasionally tacky! - Secret Santa gifts, instead we each buy something from the Giving Tree shop. The gifts are then given directly to children in refuge homes and other children across the country who are in great need, helping make Christmas the special time of year it should be.

If you’d like to take part in the Giving Tree scheme, you can do so here.

23 Sep 2019

Developing our teams

As part of our commitment at Catch to ensuring that our teams are as equipped for success as they can be, we recently engaged Annabel Shilton, an experienced Business Coach and Consultant, to provide a leadership and management training programme for our management teams.

We took time out last Thursday for this dynamic and engaging workshop, starting with the foundations of the difference between leadership & management, then moving on to how we can all gain from improving on empowerment, ownership & responsibility and how communication is at the centre of effective leadership.

The team had a great day and left feeling empowered to better support not only themselves, but their own teams through better personal effectiveness and communication. We're looking forwards to putting into practise some of the new skills and techniques learned from the workshop.

About Annabel: Annabel Shilton has over 18 years of experience as an Executive Coach, Coach Supervisor and Consultant. Her previous roles in strategic marketing with global companies have equipped her with the unique ability to integrate business, marketing and people strategies, deliver organisational objectives, increase people engagement and productivity. She has worked with many senior executives and top teams in both large and small organisations on coaching and change programmes with a specific focus on developing leaders to build organisations to which people want to belong.