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On this: the 11th day, of the 11th month, we will pause at 11am to pay our respects to our Armed Forces community- past and present ❣️

We did it, we have successfully conquered Everest!

Our virtual challenge saw our fantastic team climb in excess of 48,000ft- more than twice the height of the real ‘Goddess of the Sky’! 🏔

We would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who supported and sponsored our Everest Challenge helping us smash our £10,000 fundraising target for Community Action Nepal 🙌

Who spotted the Focus logo in the pages of The Times? 📰

Last month Scotland defeated England at a penny-farthing polo match that saw the two teams battling it out on Victorian-style bicycles. The two sides were competing for the Penny-Farthing Calcutta Cup in Richmond, Surrey, with the Scots pipping the opponents 8-7 in a thrilling contest! 🏆

Local Community Support Group, The Gateway Hub, recently launched their Summer Lunch Club. The new initiative will focus on providing different types of food items to families who find feeding their children challenging over the school holidays.

Throughout the summer break, Focus Group are proud to be supplying weekly care packages of milk and fresh fruit to The Hub. Wrapping around existing services such as Food Banks, volunteers work together to ensure no child goes hungry.

If you would like to find out more about The Gateway Hub & their volunteering opportunities, please visit their website here.

For the past 17 weeks, our community kitchen has dished up over 5000 nutritious meals in an effort to keep our local NHS staff well fed throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

We are incredibly proud to have been able to provide this free service to our NHS Heroes, and even more thankful for the lifesaving work that they do each and everyday.

With over 450 sponsors pledging their support, the virtual Focus 10K was a huge success, with the total fundraising amount totalling an incredible £30,574.74 👏

We would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who took part in this unique fundraiser, your generosity has helped to fund a whole range of projects at Chailey Heritage Foundation

We are so proud of Stuart MacGarvie & his team for their Community Champions Award, presented for catering for our local residents and NHS heroes 🌈

A BIG thank you to our friends at #InfinityFoodsWholesale and Auntie Val's Ability Centre for donating a whopping 75 kilos of pinto, borlotti & mung beans and chick peas for our Community Meals 🤗 This lot will certainly keep Stu & his team busy in the kitchen!

Anything we don't use up will be donated to Shoreham Foodbank 👌

The Focus Easter bunnies have been VERY busy delivering these generous 'Coronavirus Rescue Packs'! Little did we know that after a 'rat-a-tat-tat' at the door, the postie would deliver this... 🍾🥤🍫🍭🐣🛁🧻

Thank you so much to everyone involved - it's hugely appreciated!

While our offices may be closed, The Hut is certainly open! Over the last few days, Stuart, Liam and Sarah have transformed our favourite eatery into a community kitchen. This huge batch is made up of sausage & mash, beefy cottage pie, pasta & bolognese and a Focus favourite... sweet chilli chicken, rice & veg!

The care parcels will be winging their way to Worthing Hospital this evening- courtesy of NHS volunteer Julie. We hope they will give our incredible nhs.uk staff a much needed nutritional boost as they battle to keep us safe 💙

"Under certain circumstances there are few hours more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.” - Henry James

Our people are proving extremely resilient during these uncertain times, kindness and compassion is prevailing which is wonderful to see! As a thank you to our team a complimentary feast of sausage & mash was dished up in The Hut today, followed by a classic afternoon tea 🍰🥪☕️

It's World Book Day! Some of our teams have chosen to dress for the occasion, others are taking part in bake sales and our super chefs are cooking up a variety of literary masterpieces in The Hut - Bird Pie with a side of Snozzcumber anyone? 🥒

All funds raised today will go towards the purchase of new story books for primary schools in our local community, because, as Dr Seuss once said “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”

It’s our second favourite day of the year!

The Hut Gods are going flipping crazy for our pancake people, serving up not only sweet and savoury toppings but also buttermilk beauties AND classic crepes 🥞 So, what’s it going to be? 🤔

Shout out to our very own #TeamFocus who battled against awful weather conditions yesterday to defend our title of Corporate Relay Champions for the fourth year running 🏆 (no pun intended!)

Thank you to everyone who backed the team, all of your donations will go to local charity, The Sussex Beacon who provide vital specialist care and support for people living with HIV.

#TeamFocus are hoping to HOLD THE TITLE of The Sussex Beacon Corporate Relay again this year at the Brighton Half Marathon this weekend 🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️ This year’s dream team consists of Luke Hunt, Dean Christie, Lee Aylward & Matthew Shirling.

Just when you thought we couldn't be more sociable...

With Focus House being 25,000 sq ft with a rapidly expanding workforce, it's pretty tricky to know the majority of your colleagues and what their role actually entails within the business, so...

That's right, in the spirit of Valentine's Day we introduced our own version of Speed Dating...Speedy Networking! ❤️

⏳2 minutes are up! Time to meet your next colleague 🙋‍♂️

You made it, welcome to 2020! Have you made any New Years resolutions? Set yourself some targets? How about a challenge?
Focus 10K returns to Borde Hill Garden on Sunday 31st May and this year is going to be our biggest ever! Supporting the incredible Chailey Heritage Foundation, there's something for everyone! 🏃🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️

The Chailey Heritage Foundation was announced as our ‘Charity of the Year’ in December 2018 and since then a lot has happened!

From bake sales to bingo, 10K runs and hair shaving fun and earlier this month Elaine Goodman, Chris Pellatt, Nigel Box and Danya Castle presented the charities Development Director, Sally-Anne Murray, with a cheque for £35,327.88.

This is an incredible achievement, which will have a huge impact on the lives of the children and young people who are cared for at Chailey.

The Adur East Lions Club were joined by a guest Santa Claus last night and he looks very familiar to us 🤔 thank you to our Focus Group volunteers for helping with a fantastic Sleigh Drive and to everyone who donated on our route! Can you guess who the secret Santa is? 🎅🏽

Work is much more fun when you’re wearing a jumper with a penguin on it. Or a reindeer. Or a load of tinsel. FACT. So we are getting Christmassy with our colleagues today for Christmas Jumper Day!

And the best bit? Our offices are raising money for Save the Children UK - helping to keep children around the world healthy and safe, and get an education, so they can grow up to be who they want to be ❣️

"The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention" - Oscar Wilde

The Focus Kent team have been working on an important project today on behalf of Warming Up The Homeless, filling warm socks with items such as deodorant, baby wipes, toothpaste and new underwear. All of these sock bundles will then be distributed to people who are currently living on the streets in our community.

The team at Special delivery at Focus House! Thank you to Wynnes & Seaford Fencing for supplying our beautiful Christmas tree! Our Facilities Manager, Rebecca, had the honour of putting the star on top- luckily she's a professional elf and safety expert🎄

Honoured to be taking part in the Safe in Sussex Gingerbread House competition. Stuart & Harriet will be decorating our entry. All of the houses will be donated to families staying in the Safe in Sussex shelters over Christmas.

Safe in Sussex raises awareness of domestic abuse and provides practical support and refuge locally.

Last week saw the launch of our volunteering policy, which enables our people to dedicate their time, skills (and smiles!) to a local charity of their choice.

Jessica, Ashleigh, Calvin, Beverly, Andy, Campbell and Jamie headed to Patchwork Farm, located at the Chailey Heritage Foundation. The animals on Patchwork Farm provide therapy to their pupils and young adults who use their services. The team got to work in the pig enclosure, digging up vegetation, laying weed membrane and covering with gravel.

Tomorrow, we will be rolling up our sleeves with the fantastic Chailey Heritage Foundation! This time the team will be onsite helping to rejuvenate the pig enclosure at Patchwork Farm, assisting the farm manager, Lesley with some much needed work.

The animals on Patchwork Farm provide therapy to CHF pupils and young adults who use their services. Chailey’s four resident pigs have been tempted to venture out their enclosure to reach the vegetation that has been growing outside. Our volunteers will be helping to dig up the vegetation, lay down a weed membrane and cover the spaces with gravel, along with additional tasks on the farm.

2019 marks 100 years since the first two-minute silence was observed on Armistice Day, 11 November 1919.
This year we’re asking our teams to pause - mute phones, close laptops, switch off screens - for just two minutes and pay respect to our Armed Forces community, past and present.

Join us at 11am on 11 November for the two-minute silence.

Another client making sparks this Bonfire Night. Wishing our friends at Sussex CCC a fantastic fireworks event tonight at the 1st Central County Ground. Have fun if you're going!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN 🎃 The only day it's acceptable to wear a bed sheet to work and probably the only time Kiss would socialise with Wednesday Addams👻

From the homemade costumes & decorations, to the pumpkin & garlic delights in 'The Hut', we're really going for it today at Focus HQ!

FOCUS IS FIFTEEN! 🎉
And tonight we celebrate at The Grand Hotel Brighton.

Staff will be donning black tie, enjoying a variety of entertainment and will no doubt be throwing some serious shapes on the dance floor💃🕺

We can't wait to celebrate 15 years of achievement with everyone.

Today marks a very special day for the Chailey Heritage Foundation! After 3 years of fundraising, The D.R.E.A.M. Centre is OFFICIALLY open 🤗

On 17th November 2016 the charity launched The D.R.E.A.M. Centre appeal to raise £3.1m to build a modern, purpose-built indoor activity space where children & young people with complex disabilities & health needs could participate in a mixture of arts and physical activities.

Today, this dream came true 💜

Yesterday we had a visit from Jasper, the Adur East Lions Club Official mascot! 🦁

He was here to announce the news that Focus Group will be working with The Lions on some very worthwhile charity campaigns over the next few months, including the #coatsforkids appeal, giving the gift of warmth this winter by asking people to donate preloved children's coats.

The team at #Virtual1 certainly know how to sweeten our Tuesdays! Thank you for this special delivery! 💙

Massive congratulations to Jamie Connolly for winning July's Hosted Salesperson of the Month…

Jamie helped 9 new clients last month including several estate agents and motor dealerships. Jamie has also already made a fantastic start to August with another monster deal this week! Well done and keep it up!

Thanks DVS Ltd - such a generous prize! Looking forward to 'raffling off' this incredible TV to raise the all important funds for our Charity of the Year, the Chailey Heritage Foundation!

If speaking kindly to plants helps them to grow, imagine what speaking kindly to humans can do...

Focus House is awash with foliage this morning as Brighton Botanicals put their green fingers to work & our new moss wall is getting a great reception from our resident Snail!

A throwback to this time last month when some of the sales guys went clay pigeon shooting at West Kent Shooting School. Thanks for the day out Gamma. Everyone had a brilliant time, especially overall winner, Michael Lloyd.

Have you got that #FridayFeeling?? We do!

Hosted by Bingo Caller Chris Goodman, POSH BINGO was the next event in the calendar for raising the all important funds for Chailey Heritage Foundation.

With the huge excitement of generally playing Bingo and with cracking raffle prizes up for grabs, the evening raised a grand total of £482.10!!!