Community is importation to us here at Ellison, so when we were approached by a local girls’ football team (Brickfield Under 8s) to sponsor their new football kits we were thrilled to agree to support them. Jen Pritchard, one of the volunteer parents at Brickfield Under 8s said; "For Ellison to sponsor our Brickfield Under 8s girls’ team to give them a football kit to play away matches and tournaments was an amazing feeling. Seeing business’ like Ellison believing in girls’ football and … [Read more...]

Ellison’s Popular Trade Ecommerce Website Goes from Strength to Strength The Ellison team are delighted with the uptake and popularity of their latest website, a B2B focused ecommerce platform, exclusively for Sizzix retailers in Europe, Asia, Oceania and Africa - EllisonTrade.com.         Interested in signing up? If you are interested in supplying Sizzix products across Europe, Asia, Oceania and Africa, simply complete our … [Read more...]

Ellison Support Local Council With Tree Planning Initiative Each year we offer every member of our Ellison team one CSR day for them to choose how they wish to spend the day away from their normal day to day activities. This gives each of our employees dedicated time to support something in their local communities or support charities they feel passionate about outside of the workplace. We also love the benefits it brings for team building and increasing employee engagement. Recently, … [Read more...]

Members of our European office recently took on an 18-mile sponsored walk across the Welsh countryside to raise money for two special charities. The team including 6 members of our Product Development team (plus one four-legged friend!) and led by Goods In Team Leader Rob, took on a circular route from our Wrexham based office along the Clywedog Trail, across fields and woodland and around the Minera quarry. The team chose to raise for Nightingale House Hospice who do vital work … [Read more...]

Here at Ellison everyone gets the opportunity to use one working day of the year as a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) day. Our teams get the chance to use this day to go help out a charity either on their own or along with a team to help out in the community. Our supply chain team decided to utilise their day to go and help out at Freshfields Animal Sanctuary. This sanctuary is a community focussed non-profit making charitable organisation caring for abandoned, abused and unwanted … [Read more...]

Last week our Ellison Employee Engagement Champions held a spring event for our global teams. The event was held as a fun way for our teams to get together virtually and in person, enjoying a few treats and appreciating each other’s company. Monday was Ellison Pride Day where our teams wore clothes in our Ellison branded colours and enjoyed a breakfast buffet. We also shared stories about our journeys in the business on our social media page on Workplace by Facebook. On Tuesday we hosted … [Read more...]

Here at Ellison, we set ourselves a challenge to raise some vital funds to support UNICEF in their fundraising efforts for the war Ukraine. UNICEF support children and families in desperate need of safety, stability, and protection. We set ourselves a target to get outside away from our workstations to collectively walk the length of Ukraine which is 346.4 miles. Together our global teams managed to walk a total of 348.28 miles. Over in our USA office, Cornhole is a very popular sport … [Read more...]