{"id":2415,"date":"2021-12-21T11:42:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T11:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panthergroup.co.uk\/?p=1948"},"modified":"2022-09-12T12:52:15","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T11:52:15","slug":"panther-logistics-colleagues-help-spread-festive-cheer-for-hospital-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panthergroup.co.uk\/2021\/12\/21\/panther-logistics-colleagues-help-spread-festive-cheer-for-hospital-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"Panther Logistics Colleagues Help Spread Festive Cheer For Hospital Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
KIND-HEARTED staff at Panther Logistics are helping to make Christmas a little brighter for patients spending the festive season in hospital.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
More than 600 colleagues, from the company\u2019s network of depots nationwide, took part in a Christmas gift scheme for patients as well as or instead of their usual Secret Santa schemes.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Vicki Barber, Panther\u2019s Internal Recruitment Manager said that the gift scheme was the brainchild of Manjeet Bajwa, Compliance Manager, of Panther\u2019s Northampton depot, who suggested the idea in the hope of spreading a little festive cheer.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
She said that Manjeet came up with the idea after learning of a local appeal to collect presents for
patients, mainly elderly, who had no-one to visit them as they lay in hospital on Christmas Day.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Between them employees from all over the network have donated hundreds of gifts including toiletries, beauty accessories, chocolates, biscuits, socks, slippers and outdoor clothing such as scarves, hats and gloves for distribution among patients to Kettering General Hospital, Northampton General Hospital and at the community and mental health hospitals across Northamptonshire (Berrywood, Corby, Isebrook and St. Mary\u2019s).<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n