On 2 November, Millennium & Copthorne Hotels at Chelsea Football Club hosted an appreciation day for over 65 clients and staff to thank them for their support over these difficult recent years.
When COVID struck, the hospitality industry was greatly impacted and suffered a decline in sales that was as sharp and severe as the ramping up of pressure on medical staff and resources across the country. Chelsea FC took the battle into their own hands and offered to accommodate London NHS staff in their two London hotels, a complimentary gesture that was to extend to nearly 10,500 room nights in total!
Travelling through a deserted London to offer respite to medical NHS staff, the hotel team was recognised for their efforts by the football club collectively as their employees of the year. At the same time, UK’s leading hospitality recruitment brand Caterer.com picked up on the indomitable spirit of the hotel team and named the business as one of their featured top 30 hospitality companies to work for in the UK in 2020.
As hotels across the world started to recover from Covid, dark clouds were still over Stamford Bridge as the UK government imposed trading sanctions on Chelsea FC in March this year. Battling the odds once again, morale at the hotel remained strong through the remarkable camaraderie and team spirit and once again it received the repeat accreditation in the annual review of the top 30 places in the country to work for in hospitality the following year.
Featuring an exquisite sit-down dinner with tickets to watch Chelsea play at their home ground, the
evening was a celebration of all that had been achieved and hopes for a brighter future. Mark Gregory-White, Hotel General Manager, gave a speech of appreciation to clients and his team. “I’m so proud of the team I work with…they are an amazing bunch and I wouldn’t change them for the world…and that goes for our clients too! We provide transparency and honesty…we are proud of who we are, what we are and how we identify ourselves”.
