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Spring Cleaning is a Galloping Success
It’s at this time of year R.J. Holland Limited spring cleans the office and shreds old records, documents and papers. We are situated in a rural location and we recycle all our paper and cardboard, however a note was left on the door of the office recently asking if the local stables could have it for their horses. We contacted...
Cold Weather Shelter Outreach Programme
The 80 Charlotte Street Project Team have collaborated with a new community group. The American International Church located on the boundary of the project on Tottenham Court Road hosted the Wednesday evening shelter for the C4WS’s cold weather shelter. As part of this commitment, one night per week the church hosts up to 20 guests overnight who are currently homeless...
80 Charlotte Street Project Building Social Impact in Fitzrovia
The 80 Charlotte Street Project team have built a good relationship with the London Jesus Centre (LJC) this year. In the past three months, we have collaborated with the LJC through making food donations and undertaking two separate maintenance jobs at the Centre, which is local to the site. During the week commencing April 8th, Multiplex made the arrangements for...
Flood Rescue Trailer
Midgard have purchased a bespoke “flood rescue trailer” for the local residents at Teddington Riverside development. The purpose of the trailer is to provide the residents with a suitable transportation option in the case of a flood. There is a pre-agreement in place with a local farmer, that in the case of a flood, the Estate Manager will rent a...
Homeless Employment
Having witnessed high levels of rough sleeping around Leeds, we wanted to help make a difference. We targeted two homeless people to employ on site and develop their skills. To start with we found this difficult, however we had a break through with a local organisation to Leeds called ‘Engage’. They help people who are homeless or at risk of...
Assisting Greater Manchester Fire Brigade
As part of an ongoing arrangement, GMI are assisting the local fire brigade’s technical rescue unit by offering the site tower crane for the fire brigade to use in at-height rescue training. So far one session has been carried out on the Burlington house project, with another to follow on the Excelsior works project in a few weeks time. This...
Smart4Life Digivans
The site was instrumental in the company fitting out a van with computers and digital equipment under a venture called Smart4Life. The van is stationed near the site for a day and manned by site staff. The local residents are allowed free use of the equipment and help is given with job applications and CV writing. Advance information on the...
Day Old Eats: Food Surplus Social Enterprise
We use a Social Enterprise called ‘Day Old’ to provide catering for our team events, lunches and hospitality. Day Old is a food surplus Social Enterprise which tackles food waste and food poverty. These goods are collected from artisan bakeries the day before, preventing them from going to waste and ending up in landfill. 600,000 tonnes of avoidable waste happens...
Colour Run charity event at Marlborough House School
After showing interest to get involved with any upcoming events during our 16 weeks’ constructing on the school’s property, we were approached by the school staff and asked if we would be interested in supporting a charity event which was to be held on the last day of Spring Term. We jumped at the chance to be involved and worked...
Belu Water Social Enterprise
The project team at Mace’s 25 Grosvenor Street made the decision to procure their site water from ‘Belu’, a registered social enterprise. Whilst several water providers donate some of their profits to charity, Belu donate 100% of their profits to the international development charity Water Aid. This supports their work in making clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene normal...
Colouring Construction: Educational Colouring In Calendar
The Grosvenor Square team originally wanted to create a calendar to provide the team, subcontractors and client with the important awareness dates throughout the year. This idea evolved into a multi-purpose calendar highlighting health and safety, wellbeing and education, by working with CLOCS and CCS, we created a colouring-in Grosvenor Square calendar. The aim was for the workforce and client...
Charitable Donations
Simons Group uses a mobile app to record the Don’t Walk Bys (DWB) on each project. As part of this initiative the Chairman offered a charitable donation of £1.00 per DWB. Each project are given the opportunity to choose a local charity. The Circle Health Birmingham project chose a local charity Aquarius – The Grow Project, which is situated next...
Nutrition Workshop
We have been liaising with the local community in the hope of improving the well being of the young and older generations. We have worked with local school Chobham Academy and a homelessness charity Caritas Anchor House. The main aims were to improve the individuals’ knowledge of food skills, food budgeting, minimising on wastage of food and ingredients, the social...
Children’s Books for Easter 
The Manchester New Square Site are holding a Book Appeal in aid of the Wood Street Mission, a local charity, which helps children and families living on low incomes in the Manchester and Salford area. Wood Street Mission are celebrating their 150th Anniversary and our team thought we would celebrate this by donating children’s books which will be just in...
Christmas Tree for the Local Community
Ganson UK Ltd are leaving a lasting legacy at the Kitty’s Road Community Centre site. The site team have provided the local community with a Christmas Tree and have also laid an electricity supply with a connecting box by the tree so the lights around the tree can be turned on for any event. This is a great community effort...
Providing a BIM Model for the local school
Midas Construction Ltd has provided the adjacent school with a copy of the Midas Construction Ltd BIM Level 2 Computer model for the school’s I.T Department to use. By providing this BIM Level 2 Model, it has allowed students who are studying computer programming to write their own programme using the BIM Model as a basis. This is an excellent...
Community Litter Picking
GMI regularly attend the local community/ developer/ council meetings, and an issue regularly raised by the community is that of general litter in the area which is not necessarily site specific. A member of the community suggested splitting up the area into zones around sites/ businesses with each taking responsibility for their respective zone. GMI have bought into this and...
STEM Learning Through Construction
For our CCS community liaison, we partnered with Bricks 4 Kidz to deliver a project to the local primary school due to our ongoing construction project in the area. They joined us to visit the Ballinderry primary school Year 5 class, where Bricks 4 Kidz delivered a 2 hour session to the pupils. They worked from a manual to build...
Work Placement Project with Scottish Prison Services
At the beginning of the Dundee Regional Performance Centre for Sport project, a group of five inmates from HM Prison Castle Huntly supported set-up works on site. A total of ten cumulative weeks work experience was completed by the group which provided participants with real hands-on work experience, which complemented the learning which they had completed within the prison, which...
Supporting Local Charities by Engaging with our Supply Chain
The Yard Dundee, a charity providing a safe place to play for disabled children, got a boost from local businesses led by Balfour Beatty. Local tradespeople donated their time and materials to give the well-loved play space a mini makeover. Local tradespeople tackled a range of challenges at Rainbow House in Mid Craigie, making important improvements to the building, heating,...
Community Winterfest at Woodberry
We created a Community Winterfest at Woodberry to celebrate Christmas with the local community. This consisted of making Christmas wreaths, a carol service from the local school and face painting. We also donated a Santa’s Grotto to the Woodberry Down Community Primary School for their annual Winter Fair for the third year in a row.
Waste Toner
On a previous projects, we wondered if we could make some money for charity by selling the recycled toner bottles from our Ricoh printer. We were aware that used printer cartridges can be sold online to raise money for charity, so we wondered if the same applied to toner bottles. We contacted a number of charities to see if they...
YMCA Horizon Project Educational Visit
The Horizon Project works with young people ages 13 – 19 (or up to 25 if they have learning disabilities) enabling them to gain vocational and personal skills, as well as accredited qualifications helping them back into school, further training or work. On the 7th March 2019, we were delighted to welcome 13 trainees on to site, to help them...
Building Communities at Elderberry Walk
The Elderberry Walk development is situated in Southmead, Bristol, an area that experiences high levels of social deprivation. As part of a commitment to building efficient and sustainable communities, ENGIE has integrated well into the local area. As the development progresses, the team has even been able to stretch the complied budget of £100k (£50k from United Communities and £50k...
Mobile Barbering Service
Parkeray’s Wells Street project started the week with a fresh trim on Monday 25 February, thanks to Crew Experience’s mobile barbering service, who offered free haircuts on site as part of the project’s community engagement initiative. Parkeray is currently performing the full refurbishment of a Grade 2 listed building on Wells Street on behalf of clients, Storey. Mindful of the...
Donating hoarding space to local children’s centre
Our site at Woodberry Down, Phase 2 is located next to a local children’s centre. We have a great relationship with them and so have donated some of our hoarding to them so they are able to advertise their children’s centre to the local community which you can see in the image above.
Collaboration to Combat Period Poverty
The Site Manager and Trainee Site Manager took the courageous step to promote and support The Crimson Wave, a regional charity that provides free sanitary products to homeless women and women on low incomes in Greater Manchester. The team recognised the opportunity to contribute both to a local community cause, and also to help to break industry stereotypes. The endeavour...
Defibrillator Donation
Mathew, our Site Manager and Malcolm from the Welsh Ambulance Service NHS Trust are proudly presenting the newest defibrillator for the village of Llandybie. The defibrillator has been purchased from our donation to the Tybie Memorial Fund. The memorial fund was initially set up when Malcolm (pictured right) and his wife lost their son, just over three years ago. Not...
Taunton Area Cycle Network
In support of the Taunton Area Cycle Network, the site team have introduced an innovative, practical approach to encourage cycling in the area. The site team’s three-step approach comprises of the following: Displaying the campaign’s cycle network tube map on the site hoarding adjacent to the cycle path to raise awareness of the campaign and to offer cyclists the chance...
Multiplex joins Unite Period Dignity Campaign
The Multiplex University of Glasgow Campus Development is the first site in the UK to sign up to Unite’s period dignity campaign. This is in efforts to improve the facilities for female workers following an industry survey of welfare facilities in the industry. Caron Dunlop, Head of Community Engagement said: “Multiplex is committed to providing great workplaces and spaces for...
