Serco UK & Europe

🔦 ✈ 🚁 Spotlight on Serco Royal Navy and RAF aircraft maintenance. Our highly skilled teams ensure the safety and efficiency of the UK's military aircraft, helping to keep the Royal Air Force and Royal Navy aircraft in the air. 🛠 We deliver expert, critical engineering services for the Typhoon, Merlin, Apache, Wildcat and Chinook aircraft with our maintenance, repair and overhaul teams keeping these assets ready for flight and fight. ⚙ Our logistics specialists process thousands of spares for EJ200 engine repair and Typhoon engine forward support every year. Our engineers also specialise in fault diagnosis, avionics, and mechanical maintenance, and aircraft part welding for Wildcat and Merlin helicopters. Watch the short video below to find out more and visit our website 👇 #SercoDefence #RAF #ArmedForces #RoyalNavy #Engineering #ImpactABetterFuture #AssetManagement

🤝 In partnership with Birmingham Community Leisure Trust and Equans UK & Ireland, who have provided funding, Serco Leisure has relaunched its hugely successful children's breakfast swim and safety clubs at Erdington and Ladywood leisure centres. 🏊 The 28-week programme provides swimming and water safety sessions and breakfasts for 30 children each week. 💬 Dawn Page, Deputy Partnership Manager at Serco Leisure, who supported the development of the scheme said: "During 2023 we were teaching 160 children a week how to swim via this scheme and provided over 6,000 breakfasts. Children were attending from 71 different schools across the City. We're looking forward to see how this progresses now we have the scheme back up and running! With a massive big thank you to our corporate partners Equans who have provided the funds to make this happen. Here's why the scheme is so important 👇 ✔ Food poverty in Birmingham is double the national average ✔ 1 in 3 children live in poverty ✔ 81,000 children in receipt of free school meals ✔ 38% of children and young people are inactive ✔ 49% of year 6 children can’t swim 25m unaided #SocialValue #SwimClub #BreakfastClub #WaterSafety #SercoLeisure #ImpactABetterFuture

🛴 🚲 Active travel FAQs – what is it, what are the benefits, and what is the new government's strategy? Find the answers to these questions and more in our helpful summary. An insight into active travel, whether you’re a newcomer or a know-it-all! Read on 👉 https://lnkd.in/e5m42ZeD #Micromobility #ActiveTravel #SustainableTransport #ImpactABetterFuture

💚♻ #NameThatBinLorry Which one is your favourite? The Serco Environmental Services team at Sandwell recently teamed up with the Council to run a competition for children aged between 4 and 12 to come up with new names for Sandwell’s fleet of recycling lorries. The twelve winners are listed below: Binbo Baggins Binderella Bostin Recycler Captain Recycle Cat Wheelie Frank Binner Lord of the Bins Obi-wan Binobi Ollie Bollie Bin Lorry Ow Ya Bin? Recyclosaurus Rex Wheelie Wonka 💬 Tony Marston, Senior Contract Manager at Serco said: "It’s been wonderful to see the enthusiasm from the children of Sandwell and the fantastic names they came up with. "At Serco, we continue our commitment engaging with the community and making recycling and waste management more fun & interesting. "These names will certainly bring a smile to our team and residents as these trucks make their rounds." The lorries will be named from the 17th August and will be on the streets from the 19th August. The young competition winners will also be invited to the Serco depot to see them. #SercoEnvironmentalServices #Community #Recycling #WasteManagement #ImpactABetterFuture #SercoAndProud

📢 Our colleague in Serco Leisure Dawn Page is through to the finals of the ukactive Physical Hero category. Here's what Paul Walls, Senior Sports Manager (Contracts) at Birmingham City Council said about Dawn: 💬 “Dawn works tirelessly to make a difference to people’s lives through physical activity, and what she has achieved is exemplary. Her work to foster supportive connections among individuals and groups, whilst promoting positive interactions that create a sense of belonging, know no boundaries. From the walls of our leisure centres and far into our communities, Dawn is undoubtably a true Physical Activity Hero for Birmingham.” You can vote for Dawn here 👉 https://lnkd.in/dGnpuQ4d #SercoLeisure #ImpactABetterFuture

✈ 🏆 RAF Fylingdales Award Alert! The Serco team at RAF Fylingdales who deliver the Solid State Phased Array Radar (SSPAR) Engineering and Support contract are celebrating another Royal Society Prevention of Accidents Patron’s award after receiving their 29th consecutive gold health and safety award this year.   💬 James Dickinson BA (Hons) CMgr MCMI, Interim Contract Manager at SSPAR, RAF Fylingdales collected the award, and said, "The whole team are extremely proud to have achieved this exceptional award, the highest RoSPA achievement category, making us one of only five organisations to have received 29 or more gold awards.   "The RoSPA awards are one of the most prestigious and recognised schemes in the world, receiving this award recognises the team’s exemplary health and safety performance and their commitment to continually raising their standards." Well done to all involved! 👏 #SercoDefence #RAF #ArmedForces #HealthAndSafety #Engineering #ImpactABetterFuture

  Meet Lauren Cusworth, one of our Forensic Psychologists in Training (FPiT) based at HMP & YOI Doncaster. Lauren recently attended the British Psychological Society Division of Forensic Psychology Conference with some of her colleagues in support of her #professionaldevelopment. Here are Lauren's key takeaways: ✔️ I learnt what we could do better as practitioners. The emphasis was on improving the quality of the services we provide. The talks encouraged a lot of reflection on my role as a practitioner and the establishment that I work in. ✔️ Presentations covered trauma, stalking and reintegration. These are very different yet very interesting topics. A particular favourite of mine was listening to the talk on the trauma of release from prison. I'm involved in work to understand the 'recall' population at the prison so I found it insightful. The recall population are those returned to prison for breaching their release conditions. ✔️ I enjoyed the talk focused on the experiences of an autistic male convicted of stalking. I hadn’t considered the perspective they were taking and found the talk emotive. ✔️ I have a personal interest in those identifying as ‘incels’. I took the opportunity to listen to a presentation exploring their attitudes. It was surprising as the research findings were not what I expected them to be. It provided me with lots of consideration to think about.    💭 Lauren's overall reflections were: "The keynote speaker on the integration of technology within the prison system was fascinating. At HMP Doncaster, we've introduced in-cell technology. This is a step towards making prisons more compatible with technology. I want to see this develop further and learn how 'smart' prisons could improve the UK prison system. "It was great to see so many like-minded professionals come together to discuss innovative areas of research in our field. Everyone was sharing learnings to help develop and improve delivery as a collective." #DFP2024 #SercoPsychologicalServices #ImpactABetterFuture #FuturePsychologist Natalie Parrett | Graham Blair | Mark Hanson | Mark Whittaker

Our joint venture in partnership with EQUANS, delivers asset and facilities management services for the MoD built estate, as well as repairs and maintenance work for service family accommodation. VIVO combines Serco’s track record for delivering engineering, technical and FM services with EQUANS' market leading FM asset optimisation and sustainable regeneration capabilities.  #Defence #Infrastructure #ImpactABetterFuture

📚 This #NationalBookLoversDay we’re celebrating our amazing volunteers who provide one-to-one online reading support for UK children’s literacy charity, Chapter One UK In the last academic year, our online reading volunteers have: ✅ Provided 85.2 hours of reading ✅ Participated in 182 reading sessions ✅ Supported 11 children to develop their literacy skills ✅ Contributed to improving the confidence of the children they have helped – 87% of teachers believed children were more confident with their reading having attended Chapter One sessions. (Chapter One, Annual Survey 2023) 📖 Chapter One has reached over 2600 children this academic year in over 95 schools in 11 areas across the country. 💬 “The children on the Chapter One programme are children who rarely, if ever read at home. The programme has helped to close the reading/learning gap between children that do read at home and those that don’t.” Teacher, Annual Survey 2022-23. 💬 Serco’s Social Impact Manager, Lulu Hobbs is one of the volunteers, “I really enjoy volunteering with Chapter One and look forward to my session every week! “To see how much the child I read with has progressed over the academic year, and to be able to develop a lovely rapport has been amazing, and I have learnt quite a bit myself! “I have learnt all about phonics, but along with that I have learnt more about how I communicate, and my softer skills, which I will take into my professional role.” #SocialValue #ChildrensLiteracy #Reading #ImpactABetterFuture #Volunteering

We are #SercoAndProud of our Serco Spacetrack Analysts at RAF Fylingdales who were heavily involved in tracking and analysing this significant space event, a Chinese break-up event that has occurred in the last 48 hrs.