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Walking Together for Women’s Aid

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Diverse women in pink shirts walking together with arms around each other, symbolizing breast cancer awareness and support

Small actions can become powerful when people come together around a shared purpose.

In September 2026, Bidvest Noonan’s People & Culture team took part in the Walk 100 Miles in September Challenge to raise funds and awareness for Women’s Aid, supporting people affected by domestic abuse.

Turning individual steps into collective action

By taking on the challenge together, colleagues helped support the essential services Women’s Aid provides to people seeking information, guidance and support.

The initiative brought the team together around a cause that has a direct impact on individuals and families across Ireland, showing how collective effort can help strengthen support within our communities.

100 miles

Walked as part of the September challenge

One Team

Coming together around a shared cause

Purpose in Action means using our time, energy and collective effort to support organisations making a meaningful difference in the communities around us.

Supporting dignity and stability with Simon Community NI

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Creating meaningful community impact often starts with meeting immediate needs.

Bidvest Noonan works alongside Simon Community Northern Ireland, the region’s largest homelessness charity, to support people experiencing homelessness and help create pathways towards a more stable future.

Turning collective action into practical support

As part of our 2026 Senior Leadership Conference, colleagues packed 150 dignity kits containing essential items for people experiencing homelessness. They also wrote personal messages of support to accompany the kits, adding a human connection to the practical help being provided.

Together, the initiative delivered over £100,000 in social value, providing comfort, dignity and practical support to people during challenging times.

150

Dignity kits packed

£100,000+

Social Value delivered

By working with organisations such as Simon Community Northern Ireland, which support vulnerable individuals and families directly, we can help extend support where it is needed most.

Purpose in Action means bringing our people and partners together around a shared purpose, turning collective effort into meaningful support for local communities.

The Bear Hub Initiative: turning kindness into lasting impact

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Sometimes, meaningful impact starts with a simple act of kindness.

The Bear Hub was inspired by a moment at Children’s Health Ireland, when a Bidvest Noonan security officer helped reunite a young patient with a misplaced teddy bear. Seeing the comfort that simple gesture brought, colleagues developed the idea into an initiative that helps reunite children with lost comfort toys or provides a new bear when one cannot be found.

From one act of kindness to wider support

The initiative has since grown beyond that first moment. Through fundraising activities held during Bidvest Noonan’s 2026 strategy roadshows, colleagues raised more than £/€10,000 to support children’s health services across Ireland and the UK, including Children’s Health Ireland, Great Ormond Street Hospital and Alder Hey Children’s Hospital.

What began as one thoughtful act has grown into an initiative that brings comfort to children and families while supporting organisations delivering vital care across the communities we serve.

£/€10,000+

Raised through colleague fundraising

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Children’s health services supported

Purpose in Action means creating space for small acts of care to grow into meaningful community impact. The Bear Hub shows how compassion, teamwork and collective support can make a real difference to children and families.

Tent UK: Opening doors to opportunity

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For people rebuilding their lives after displacement, finding work can be an important step towards independence and stability. Yet many refugees entering the UK labour market face barriers such as unfamiliar recruitment processes, limited professional networks and difficulty having overseas experience or qualifications recognised.

Tent UK is part of the global Tent Partnership for Refugees, which brings employers together to help refugees access meaningful employment. Bidvest Noonan joined the coalition to help remove barriers to work and create stronger connections between talented people and employment opportunities.

Turning awareness into practical support

Our involvement began by helping Bidvest Noonan colleagues better understand some of the challenges refugees can face when looking for work.

We then brought that learning into practice through a Career Connector Workshop at 25 Ropemaker, where refugee jobseekers received practical support from colleagues across our business.

Participants received CV guidance, mock interviews and career advice designed to help them present their skills and experience with confidence and navigate the recruitment process more effectively.

Colleagues connected with DLR, Metroline, and Savills also took part, sharing insight into different roles, workplaces and potential career pathways.

Building confidence and connections

The workshop gave participants direct access to people with recruitment and workplace experience, helping them build confidence, understand employer expectations and explore potential routes into work.

Purpose in Action means using our people, expertise and business relationships to help create better access to opportunity. Through our work with Tent UK, we are helping talented people build the knowledge, confidence and connections that can support their journey into employment.

UCD Summer Cleans: Turning recruitment into opportunity

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Every summer, Bidvest Noonan supports the UCD residences programme, which creates one of our largest seasonal recruitment requirements in Ireland.

Rather than viewing that demand simply as a need to fill more than 300 roles, we saw an opportunity to use the recruitment campaign to connect more people with work, including those who can face barriers to employment.

Opening recruitment to more people

To widen access to these opportunities, we worked with Down Syndrome Ireland, WALK, Avista, the Department of Social Protection, Intreo and Business in the Community Ireland.

These organisations brought valuable community, disability inclusion and employment expertise to the campaign. Together, we created a more direct route between people looking for work and genuine vacancies within the UCD summer operation.

Candidates were introduced directly to Bidvest Noonan recruitment teams and live roles, helping make the journey from initial connection to employment more straightforward.

From opportunity to employment

The campaign resulted in multiple candidates being hired on the day, showing what can happen when customers, recruitment teams and community partners work towards the same goal.

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community and employment partners

300+

seasonal roles required

Multiple

candidates hired on the day

Purpose in Action means looking at the needs of our business and asking how they can create wider opportunity. In this case, a major seasonal recruitment requirement became a pathway into work.

EPIC: Creating pathways into work

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For many refugees, asylum seekers and migrants in Ireland, the challenge is not a lack of talent or experience. It is access to the right opportunities.

Through our partnership with EPIC, Business in the Community Ireland’s Employment for People from Immigrant Communities programme, we are helping people build the confidence, skills and connections they need to move towards sustainable employment.

Since 2022, Bidvest Noonan has contributed €250,000 to EPIC. Our support also includes CV and interview preparation, mentoring, employability workshops, ESOL support, recruitment events, work placements and access to employment opportunities.

From support to employment

Ola is one example of how that support can lead to a real employment opportunity. As an EPIC participant, Ola received CV and interview support before completing the training, vetting and licensing required to become a Security Officer. Ola is now building a career with Bidvest Noonan.

€250,000

contributed since 2022

250

participants supported in 2025

99

progressed into jobs, training or opportunities

This is Purpose in Action: creating practical pathways that help people turn their potential into opportunity.