On Monday 23rd August, Luton colleagues from the UK’s community bank, Metro Bank will join in to support ‘Wicketz’ taking place in Luton. Wicketz is a cricket programme funded by Lord’s Tarverners which aims to provide cricket opportunities and teach fundamental life skills to young people aged 8-19 living in highly populated and deprived communities.
Enfield colleagues from the UK’s community bank, Metro Bank will join in all the festivities around ‘A Month of Sundays’ throughout August. A Month of Sundays festival celebrates the town through a series of exciting activities, art, dance groups, music bands and games for the kids on school holidays.
Keeping colleagues motivated and managing a healthy work life balance is the challenge facing lots of managers, but 200 Metro Bank colleagues were so engaged by an Olympic style challenge – Road to Tokyo - they have exercised over 12,000 miles in just 30 days.
From Saturday 14th August - Monday 30th October the UK’s community bank, Metro Bank, will showcase local portraits – part of the Enliven Crawley programme organized by Crawley Town Centre Business Improvement District and Creative Crawley. This innovative art event - entitled Stories of Strength - launches with a photographic exhibition trail featured in local venues across the town centre. The project celebrates resilience, perseverance, determination and vulnerability. Each venue showcases art that celebrates the strength of the people in Crawley.
Metro Bank stores across the West Midlands region – that’s Birmingham, Solihull Merry Hill and Wolverhampton - are sponsoring one of the dog kennels at the Birmingham Dogs Home for the next year.
As the UK’s leading community bank, Metro Bank is committed to reflecting the communities that it serves and to ensure the colleagues we recruit reflect these communities by being a truly diverse and inclusive work force, we have just partnered with BAME Recruitment.
Metro Bank colleagues from the Newbury store have partnered with Education Business Partnership, a charity whose mission is to equip young children with vital skills needed to reach their full potential when they eventually join the workforce. The Newbury colleagues supported the charity’s Ready Steady Jobs event aimed at introducing primary school children to different career choices and helping them shape their thoughts as they set off for secondary school.
Colleagues from Metro Bank’s Croydon’s store have just completed a charity golf challenge to raise £600 for The Katie Haines Memorial Trust. Just two months after her wedding, aged 31, Katie died of an accidental carbon monoxide poisoning at her home. The Katie Haines Memorial Trust was founded by her family to raise awareness of the dangers of carbon monoxide.
The UK’s community bank, Metro Bank, opens its 78th store in Bradford, this Friday August 6th, creating 20 new jobs for the area. The new Bradford Metro Bank is the most northern based store, located at Market Street and offers local residents and business seven day a week opening.
The UK’s community bank, Metro Bank, gives every colleague a Day to Amaze – essentially a paid day off to support a local charity or good cause. Colleagues from Metro Bank’s Birmingham store chose to take on a mammoth task for their Day to Amaze by climbing Mount Snowdon in aid of Edward’s Trust, a charity which provides support to people affected by grief.
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