Tag Archives: Charity

Kingsfold-based builders’ merchant NYEs Building Supplies has raised £794 for the charity Rainy Day Trust during a family fun day at its depot.   The event, named ‘Have a NYEs day’, was held to celebrate the company’s recent rebrand and completion of its new 1000m2 warehouse. Attended by more than …

Five members of staff from Scott Parnell, specialists in civils and drainage supplies, will be taking part in a 55-mile charity bike ride to raise funds for the National Autistic Society.   Rachael Adamson, Joe Folan, Jenny Burton, Alan Sweap and Mark Simpkins, who all work at Scott Parnell’s Witham …

Elliotts, the South’s leading independent supplier of building materials for the trade and public, has raised over £6,800 for Countess Mountbatten Hospice Charity. The money was raised by Elliotts employees, customers and suppliers via numerous fundraising activities including a golf day and the Challenge Adventure Charities ‘Annecy Challenge’ – a …

A Scott Parnell employee has raised more than £4,700 for the neonatal care charity, Bliss, after completing the London Marathon in memory of her daughter, who died at six weeks old.   Helen Oberholzer had waited years to be awarded with a place in one of the world’s best known …

A team of staff from the materials and groundworks supplier Rudridge will be walking up to 50km in memory of a much missed colleague.   Tony Marshall, who worked at the company’s Farnham branch for many years, suffered a fatal stroke in 2016. The company is now hoping to raise …

Covers Timber & Builders Merchants in Brighton has helped charity supporters from Newick RFC in East Sussex raise £35,000 for Cancer Research during a special rugby match.   The event, which was called Newick RFC Kicks Cancer into Touch, was organised after the club’s chairman, Wayne Thomas, was recently diagnosed …

A builders merchant has reduced the amount of plastic bags it uses by a quarter – and has raised £5,000 for charity in the process. Selco Builders Warehouse, part of the Grafton Group, has seen the number of single-use plastic bags sold across its 66 branches reduce dramatically, from 120,000 …

There will be another chance for charities, community groups and worthy causes to benefit from £500 cash courtesy of NYEs Building Supplies in Kingsfold.   During April and May, NYEs is calling out for groups and charitable endeavours in the community to be put forward for the chance to benefit …

As part of Primaflow F&P’s fundraising campaign for Make-A-Wish UK, the company’s Executive PA Dani Wright is set to take on two endurance races.   Wright’s challenge kicks off with the 26.2-mile London Marathon on 28th April, and continues just two weeks later with the Dukeries Ultra Marathon – a …

Staff from builders merchant group Tudor Griffiths Group, in Ellesmere have given up their free time to help a colleague prepare for a mammoth charity rally challenge. Jack Thomas, a member of the building maintenance team, will be taking part in the Banger Bust Up Rally in aid of Cancer …