ES Life

At Edward Symmons we believe work should be rewarding and fun. We encourage our staff to participate in all activities, whatever their level, and believe this helps to make Edward Symmons a great place to work. We support our people in all types of events, industry or otherwise. Below are a just a few of the things we have been up to recently - if this is the work environment for you why not take a look at our Current Jobs.

Casino & Wine Tasting Evening - Bristol

A fun time was had by all at the Bristol office client event held at Avery's Wine Cellars on 6th February.

The evening was attended by 60 clients and staff who all participated fully in the evening.  Prizes of fine wines were up for grabs!

RICS Matrics Dinner & Charity Auction 25th Jan 2008

A successful Black Tie Dinner and Auction was held last Friday, organised by Yvonne Hunt (Plymouth) for the RICS Matrics. The Dinner took place at Kitley House in South Devon. A drinks reception was followed by dinner, charity auction and disco.   Suzanna Walley and Jason Hall also from Plymouth attended the event.  The charity auction raised £500 for Lionheart. 

The charity, Lionheart, was founded by members of the RICS over 100 years ago. http://www.lionheart.org.uk/

 

ES Christmas Party

A great time was had by all at the Freeze 2007 Christmas Party held at Vinopolis, London Bridge.  Everyone had the opportunity to meet up with colleagues from around the country, enjoy a meal, lazer light show, dance to the music and marvel at the ES logo depicted in ice!

During the evening we raised  a fantastic £700 in the Christmas raffle in aid of Cancer Research UK.  http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/

Instead of sending Christmas cards, ES also donated £500 to each of the following charities nominated by staff:

Diabetes (UK) http://www.diabetes.org.uk/
Scleroderma Society http://www.sclerodermasociety.co.uk/newsite/index.php
Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia http://www.pcdsupport.org.uk/
Roy Castle Cancer Appeal http://www.recyclingappeal.com/roycastle/
Leonard Cheshire Disability http://www.lcdisability.org/



Graduate Induction Day - 4th September 2007

Despite the best endeavours of the London Underground, everyone managed to attend the Graduation Induction Day.  The venue at 60 Cannon Street provided good views of St Paul’s and surrounding area.

Nick Boyd, HR Partner welcomed the 15 new graduates from around the country.  Louisa Brown and Lisa Tippen, both APC doctors attended the day and provided useful information covering competencies, APC diary, assessments, professional development, etc.

We were also pleased to hear from Vivienne Spurge who provides in-house bespoke APC training; she covered the assessors view on handling the APC and details of future training courses.

Other speakers included Cheryl Gardner HR Manager, Lynn Macdonald Training Administrator, Ariane Herrington IT Trainer and Surveyors Richard Lawton, James Goymour and Sam Morris.
A quiz was held at the end of the day and we were pleased to see fierce competition amongst the teams.    This was followed by a drinks reception at balls brothers attended by other partners and staff from ES.