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Keeping our workforce and the communities we serve safe is our greatest priority. In 2019 we received the ISO45001 certification in Occupational Health and Safety and we also created an internal compliance function to ensure a robust monitoring system in health and safety, environmental, fleet and GDPR compliance was in place.

Following the announcement of Ubico’s Managing Director, Gareth Edmundson’s appointment to the role of Chief Executive of Cheltenham Borough Council and his subsequent departure from Ubico, we are pleased to announce that shareholders have unanimously approved the appointment of Beth Boughton as the new Interim Managing Director of Ubico Ltd.

From March 2020 the way in which Cotswold District Council collect their recycling is changing.

We are delighted to announce that our Christmas Charity Raffle took place this week and thanks to the generosity of our staff we raised an incredible £405. We have chosen to split the proceeds of our raffle equally between National Star, The Nelson Trust and the Forest of Dean Children's Opportunity Centre.

On Friday 5th July, we had a great day gardening in Gloucester with one of our charity partners, National Star. National Star enables young people with disabilities and acquired brain injuries to realise their potential through education and personalised learning opportunities, and by providing other transition and accommodation services.

Stroud District Council has added to its recycling credentials by scooping an award for cutting the amount of waste it sends to landfill. A cross party group of councillors, council and Ubico staff picked up the trophy at the National Recycling Awards ceremony on Thursday 27June.

We are proud to announce that together with our partners at Stroud District Council our waste and recycling service for the district has made it on to the shortlist of the National Recycling Awards 2019.

Ubico has recently created an internal compliance team and have recently been actively recruiting to fill positions for Compliance Managers. I am delighted to confirm that Claire Blizzard moves into the role of Fleet Compliance Manager, and will continue to carry on her excellent work primarily around Fleet compliance audits. Jon Dowell, previously of our west Oxfordshire contract joins the team as Health Safety & Environment Manager.

Ubico are very proud to announce that our contract with Stroud District Council has ranked fourth in the Highest Household Recycling and Composting Rates (2017/18) recently published on letsrecycle.com. This has seen an astounding 15.7% increase from 2016/2017.

Ubico are pleased to announce that we are now a member of The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA).