Greggs

Some of the fantastic benefits of working at Greggs include:

* Colleague discount allowing you and a family member to enjoy up to 50% off your favourite Greggs products

* Free hot drinks for you to enjoy while on shift

* Paid breaks allowing you to recharge your batteries

* We share 10% of all our profits with our colleagues

* Holidays entitlement that grows as your career grows with us

* Colleagues share plans to help you invest and save for your future

* Pension scheme to help you plan for your future

* Confidential employee assistance helpline to help with your wellbeing

* Cycle to work scheme allowing you to save money in tax and national insurance when you purchase a brand new bike

* Long Service Awards celebrating key milestones in your career

* Discount partnerships for your everyday shopping, leisure and wellbeing

Here at Greggs, we have a strong sense of responsibility towards our people, customers, suppliers and the communities we serve.

We have always been committed to doing the right thing over the years, because we recognise that businesses should stand for more than just profit. In order to make the world a better place, more recently we've consolidated our efforts to create a strategic pathway to ensure we have a positive impact on the world around us. We do this by focusing on three key pillars: Greggs communities, the planet and the way we approach business.​

In February 2021, we formalised the route we are taking to contribute to a better tomorrow when we launched The Greggs Pledge. Within our pledge, we set out 10 commitments aimed directly at helping people, protecting the planet and working with our partners and suppliers to make the world a better place by 2025.

Each year we share the steps we've taken in an annual pledge progress report. This keeps us on track and accountable while on this important journey and recognises our dedicated teams for their hard work on delivering our Breakfast Clubs, Greggs Outlets and building on our delicious menu to offer a wider range of balanced choices.

Our three colleague networks provide a brilliant opportunity for colleagues from minority groups and their allies, to get together and share their own personal experiences, offer feedback on the way we do things at Greggs and provide support to one another.

Each network is attended by colleagues from around the business, Operating Board Directors sponsor each network, meaning we have the right people tuning in to help build a truly inclusive workplace which values, acknowledges and empowers our colleagues.

ETHNIC MINORITY NETWORK - Established in early 2021, this group have embraced the opportunity to share and celebrate their life experiences and achievements with the wider business through our Being Inclusive calendar, on occasions such as Diwali, Vaisakhi, and throughout Black History Month. They’ve played an integral role in shaping our Zero Tolerance message to customers and as the network develops, we will continue to listen and learn from them, helping to inform and progress our D&I agenda.​

DISABILITY INCLUSION NETWORK - Our most recently formed colleague network have moved at pace to start making a difference to our colleagues with disabilities. They’ve contributed towards the development of a disability inclusion and neurodiversity e-learning module available to all colleagues, shaped a series of neurodiversity guides to support our line managers and colleagues to understand more in this area, and have shared personal experiences through the Being Inclusive calendar. We’ll continue to lean on this network as we work to build a workplace which is accessible for all.

LGBTQ+ NETWORK - Our longest standing colleague network have been working together for several years and continue to welcome new members from different areas of the business. They’ve recently established their network vision and mission and exist to ensure that Greggs is a great place to work regardless of gender identity or sexual orientation. They use their collective voices to support, represent our colleagues and share knowledge and experiences.

Our Fresh Start initiative reaches candidates who might not normally apply through our mainstream recruitment processes and encourages people from diverse backgrounds to learn about the great opportunities that Greggs has to offer.​

At Greggs we understand that not everybody is always job ready, sometimes things happen which might mean that you haven’t been able to work for a period. We believe that by not overlooking a person because of their past we can support and develop them to their full potential.​

​Fresh Start’s five year plan has enabled us to reach over 3,400 candidates to date and offer over 2,300 work experience hours with over 175 job offers, and these figures are still growing.

If you want to find out a little more about Fresh Start, or you just want some advice on what options are best for you, get in touch at fresh.start@greggs.co.uk

Greggs Foundation is a grant-making charity which aims to build stronger, healthier communities in the areas where Greggs' operates. Our intention is to provide grant funding where it can do most good by focusing on
- Addressing issues of poverty and inequality
- Ensuring food is at the heart of communities
- Supporting local community organisations to make a real difference
We distribute around £3.5 million per year to charitable organisations throughout England, Scotland and Wales.
The Foundation brings together all of Greggs’ charitable giving which has an extremely rich and long history. It is managed by an executive team of eleven members of staff and overseen by a board of trustees.

Our principle programmes are:

Breakfast Club Programme - established in 1999 to help primary school children get a nutritious start to their school day. Every school is provided with fresh bread from their nearest Greggs shop and a grant to support start-up and ongoing costs.

Community Holiday Club Programme - provides food and activities to children to reduce the impact of poverty and social deprivation during the school holidays.

Health - our Agents of Change Programme delivered through Rethink Food is a sustainable educational resource offered free to primary schools, that will help children to become more carbon resourceful. Children are encouraged to eat to save the planet.

Community Hub Programme – makes grants of up to £20,000 per year to support charitable organisations in the vicinity of a Greggs outlet to make a real difference in their community. We support organisations that can provide space and opportunity in those communities for people to come together, build connections and improve health and wellbeing.

Community Urban Rivers Regeneration Fund - provides funds to rivers trusts to run educational and community based environmental projects focused on urban rivers.

North East Core Fund - makes grants of up to £60,000, over up to three years to support the core costs of charitable organisations in the North East of England who are supporting their communities.

Hardship Fund - provides small grants to families and individuals in financial hardship. This programme makes grants towards household equipment, such as cookers, fridge freezers and clothing that can make a significant difference to people's lives.