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Michael Buck, OCS General Manager, at OCS client Lancashire Care Foundation Trust, will be doing a skydive with the Black Knights to raise funds to help support the client’s Grow Your Own Initiative at Guild Park, Lancashire Care Foundation Trust. OCS has also supported this project by donating bees and bee-keeping equipment, chickens and zebra finches.

Jason King joined OCS on 3rd January as our Group Head of Technology. With a wealth of experience in the technology space gained over the last 28 years at both FTSE 250 and FTSE 100 organisations Jason has joined OCS to support the key objective of advancing our core infrastructure agenda to service both internal and Client facing requirements.
 

On 21st December, OCS celebrated the success of ten graduates of the company’s inaugural Facilitating Futures Talent Programme. Welcomed by Jane Sheard, OCS CEO of Australia and New Zealand, who championed the scheme, the ceremony saw the ten graduates present what they’d learned from the year-long programme, followed by an inspirational leadership talk from polar explorer Alan Chambers, who was awarded the MBE for determined leadership in constant adversity.

OCS has been awarded a three year contract by PPG Aerospace. The contract, which started in October, sees OCS providing security, cleaning and catering at PPG Aerospace’s Shildon site in County Durham.

OCS Head of Cleaning, Yvonne Taylor, has contributed to an article in the European Cleaning Journal entitled ‘Changing face of the cleaner in the digital world’. The article considers the skills required of a cleaner today and the skills tomorrow’s workforce will need as the industry becomes increasingly automated and digitalised