LNER has announced that it has launched ‘LNER Reserves’ to enable its staff to volunteer to help the NHS, emergency services, charities and other organisations during the Coronavirus outbreak.
More than one hundred staff have already signed up to LNER Reserves.
Among those who have signed up is Duty Team Leader Stuart Rawcliffe, who is also a part-time firefighter.
The LNER Reserves is connecting its staff with various organisations, including the NHS, emergency services, partner charity Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM), FareShare, The Trussell Trust, Age UK and NCVO.
What did the officials say?
LNER Managing Director, David Horne said:
“We have formed the LNER Reserves as part of our response to the current pandemic. It is a way for colleagues to get involved in volunteering right across our route. At LNER we’re doing all we can to keep key workers moving during this challenging time, and we also want to stay connected to the communities we serve and help to support them.”
Stuart said:
“I feel proud to be able to offer additional support to the ambulance service during the Coronavirus pandemic. It’s great that the LNER Reserves helps people from around the business do the same.”
LNER apprentice, Rene Kotlar has begun volunteering with a charity that fights food hunger and is helping their delivery teams distribute food. He said:
“I am really passionate about being an LNER Reserves volunteer. As a business, we have come together as a collective to try to make a positive difference by doing what we can to support those who need it the most.”
After becoming an NHS Volunteer Responder, Customer Experience Host Julianna Laszlo has been providing telephone support for people who are self-isolating. Julianna said:
“I think that helping and being there for each other has never been so important in this difficult and extremely concerning time. I felt the urge to help and do what I can to assist my community and the NHS and show people that they are not alone.”
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Well done LNER. Could LNER operate new services including Scarborough, Aberdeen, Perth, Inverness, Hartlepool, Stockton, Sunderland, Redcar, Middlesbrough, Whitby, Harrogate, Skipton, Shipley and Bradford Forster Square.
Well done L.N.E.R. Again at the forefront. What a pleasure to see Senior staff helping in these terrible lock down times. I sincerely hope it will not continue for too much longer. Although retired and a non railway person in all discussions with L.N.E.R. staff the can do attitude comes to the fore. Keep it up Mr David Horne.