Christmas with Staff Benefits
Here at Staff Benefits, we adore Christmas! With our fabulously festive selection of events, offers and discounts making the perfect addition to your Staff Benefits package!
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Onsite Christmas Markets
The Staff Benefits Team organise a yearly Christmas market at both York and Scarborough Hospitals helping staff find those all important last minute Christmas gifts. We understand the difficulty of fitting in your Christmas shopping whilst working shifts, so we bring the Christmas market to you! Filled with festive music and fabulous stalls supporting a variety of local businesses.
Join us at of our dazzling Christmas Markets:
- Scarborough Hospital -Thursday 28th November, Discussion Room PGMC, 10am -1:30pm
- York Hospital -Tuesday 3rd December, Main Entrance, 10am -2pm
- Bridlington Hospital -Wednesday 4th December, Dining Room, 10am -1:30pm.
Stall Holder applications closed Friday 18th October, apologies but applications received after this date will not be considered. Successful applicants will be emailed by Friday 25th October.
Onsite Christmas Stalls
For Staff based at Selby and Malton, we have booked a fabulous variety of stalls to set up in the restaurant everyday through out December in the run up to Christmas!
Virtual Christmas Market
Can't make it to one of our onsite events? Check our our Virtual Christmas Market
A dedicated webpage listing all fabulous crafters and makers across the community! Open from 1st -24th December, browse through the amazing selection of bespoke and handmade gift ideas until you find something you like, then follow the instructions on how to order -its easy to use and saves braving the busy crowds!
Click here to visit our Virtual Christmas Market (link open from 1st December)
Community Christmas Boxes
We understand that staff based in the community can find it hard to benefit from our onsite events, drop in sessions and Staff Shops. As a token of our appreciation, we’ve sent out over 25 boxes to community sites across the Trust containing a number of Staff Benefits goodies as a thank you for all the fabulous work all our community staff do -we hope you enjoy them!
Local Christmas Events
Check out what festive themed events are happening near you!
We appreciate it can be hard to find everything happening in your local area at Christmas time, that's why we did the research so you don't have too! Including local Christmas Markets and events in York, Scarborough, Bridlington, Malton, Selby and Hull.
Click here to visit out 'Local Christmas Events' page
Keep an eye on our socials and your emails, starting 12th December we’ll be opening our 12 day Christmas countdown calendar to a fabulous gift, which will be given away to a staff member chosen at random from the November staff list! We have some fabulous prizes to give away!
Subsidised Panto Tickets
Important Notice: All tickets are now sold out!
Purchase some discounted Panto tickets!
We subsidise tickets across five different venues, meaning staff pay between £3 -£5 per ticket to enjoy a local panto with the family.
Tickets are available to purchase from Monday 28th October, see what's available below:
Please note: These tickets are always a sell out, be prepared to wait as lines will get busy. Staff Benefits are unable to reserve tickets for staff members unable to purchase.
Terms and conditions (please read):
- Limited tickets available, served on a first come first served basis.
- Only book tickets for one show to give other staff members a chance to go.
- Tickets cannot be resold, if you are unable to attend please contact Staff Benefits.
- NHS staff member responsible for purchasing tickets must be in attendance at the show.
- Only staff employed by York and Scarborough Trust/ LLP can purchase tickets.
- Tickets will be limited to a maximum of ten tickets per person*. Please be considerate of others when purchasing and only purchase the amount you need, a ticket wasted means a staff member was unable to attend. *Grand Opera House York are limited to four per person.
- You MUST show your York and Scarborough Trust ID badge when collecting tickets from box office.
Click here to return to the 'Events' page
