Tag Archives: Charity

The Bridge (East Midlands) is the latest winner in Selco Builders Warehouse’s Community Heroes campaign, scooping £500 worth of building materials. The charity, which delivers specialist housing related advice, support and assistance services to vulnerable people across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland, will spend the cash on soundproofing rooms to make …

PJH has donated £21,531 to Macmillan Cancer Support. The company partnered with the charity last summer with the goal of raising £10,000, which PJH promised to match. After a year’s worth of fundraising activities, PJH colleagues throughout the UK took part in a wide range of challenges and events, smashing …

Children at a Peterborough school are exploring different ways to play – thanks to a leading builders merchant. Welland Academy, on Scalford Drive, has signed up to the OPAL Programme, which helps schools across the country redesign their playgrounds and provision to help encourage new ways of play. Selco Builders …

Leyland’s Hackney store has donated 100s of pounds worth of materials to its local food bank, Hackney Foodbank, which has moved to a new warehouse; its donations included: masonry paint and rollers, brooms, garden shears and shovels. The charity recently re-located its main warehouse and offices from Hoxton to the …

A charity golf day held by the BMF (Builders merchants Federation) at the JCB Golf and Country Club raised £8,000 for the Lighthouse Club, the construction industry charity. Ten teams of four players from merchants and suppliers to the building materials industry took part in a fun and exciting day …

Travis Perkins’ HR team, from its Northampton based branch, has completed an impressive charity challenge to support its charity partner, Alzheimer’s Society this week. The eight-strong team collectively covered the ambitious 583-mile distance, the equivalent from Travis Perkins Macduff, in Aberdeenshire, to Travis Perkins Marsh Barton, in Exeter; this challenge …

The Horsham depot of Covers Timber & Builders Merchants recently organised a charity football match in memory of their colleague Ian Scott who passed away in 2023. The event saw a Covers team face off against Horsham Veterans FC to raise money for Cancer Research UK and Stroke Association. The …

CRASH announced it has appointed Trisha Pickersgill as its chief executive, who will start the role May 1 2024. Pickersgill has 18 years’ experience in hospice management and care, having held several senior roles at Rennie Grove Peace Hospice (RGP) most recently, as director of business development, operations and performance. …

Four friends, all Travis Perkins colleagues, from North Wales have taken on a gruelling three-day 120 mile mountain bike challenge to raise money for Travis Perkins’ charity partner, Alzheimer’s Society. Organised by Regional Director, Dafydd Jones, the challenge saw Jones and colleagues Andrew Craig, a Travis Perkins Account Manager, Rob …

Russell Roof Tiles is planning to raise money to help buy a new school bus for the Footprints Family charity, as well as heading to Kenya this summer to offer practical skills and support. Established in 2008, The Footprints Family provide food, clothing, shelter and healthcare to vulnerable children and …