ISS Staff Point

Pink Madness
Raised £700 for British Heart Foundation at ISS Kings Heath


Red is the colour of the heart but unfortunately also the colour of an important signal in the railway world. As a result ISS Transport at Kings Heath Northampton transformed the corporate sponsor British Heart Foundation’s wear red-day into wear pink-day and accordingly blue ISS uniforms were replaced with pink shirts, leg warmers and wigs!

At wear pink-day on 25th February and during BHF’s National Heart Month the ISS team at Siemens Train Care Facility, Kings Heath came up with various creative ideas to drive a lot of donations into the charity. The cause is of particular significance for the staff due to a recent bereavement of a co-worker in January. Like this experience illustrates, most people are somehow affected by heart disease in their circle of friends or family.

Siemens and ISS at Kings Heath work in a close relationship and Siemens Fleet Manager Mick Hill has given his full support to make this event possible and successful.

ISS Kings Heath also received a lot of support by their number one chemical supplier, Freshclean who has made a generous donation to support the good cause.

The ISS cleaning staff that usually look after the London Midland fleets

extended their service to depot colleagues’ vehicles offering a first class hand car wash and valeting.

Stakes were made in a Winter Olympics sweepstake, cakes and cookies, fry-ups and Indian specialities were sold to fill up the donation jar as well as empty stomachs. Some people went to more radical measures to collect money with sponsorships for very experimental haircuts and cross-dressing!

Thanks to these amazing efforts by the staff team, sponsors and the corporation and very generous donations by Siemens managers and colleagues, ISS at Kings Heath has managed to raise a whopping £700 for the British Heart Foundation.


A huge thanks to everybody who was involved or helped support this event.