Tag Archives: Fundraising

    Independent Builders Merchant Group (IBMG) has announced that its 2025 Flash Your Pink Pair Campaign has raised more than £2,600 for the charity Breast Cancer Now. Throughout October, branches across the group stocked limited‑edition pink work gloves, created by glove manufacturer Keypoint, who donated 40 pence for every …

Plumbing and heating supplier, Navigator MSL, has announced its annual fundraising total for 2025. The company chooses a charity to support annually. In 2025 employees of the company voted for the Cransley Hospice Trust, which provides support for patients with a life-limiting illness who need the specialist help of a hospice. …

Civils & Lintels (C&L), part of the Huws Gray group, has been recognised for its fundraising efforts in support of Mates in Mind, which works in partnership with organisations to build positive mental health in and through work. C&L received the ‘Impact through Funds Raised’ award at the recent Impact …

KNIPEX UK has raised over £1,000 for construction charity Band of Builders  with a series of sponsored walks throughout July. The initiative, driven by staff from across the business, saw colleagues walking individually, with their dogs, or during office lunch breaks, to a total of 450 miles, the distance from …

Crown Paints has hosted a golf day fundraiser in support of its official charity partner, Mind, with around £20,000 going towards mental health initiatives across England and Wales.  The event took place at the Brocket Hall in Hertfordshire, where guests, colleagues and partners came together for a day of friendly …

The building materials sector came together on a glorious day at the end of May for a day of fairways, fellowship and fundraising, at the prestigious Belfry Golf resport in Warwickshire, in aid of the Maddie Rose Campaign. The quality of the company and the evening Yellow Tie dinner, hosted …

Plumbers merchant group Highbourne Group, which includes City Plumbing Supplies, has extended its long-standing partnership with Teenage Cancer Trust for a further three years. This extension will bring the company’s total support for the charity to 15 years, with a new fundraising target of £5 million. Since 2012, Highbourne Group …

Members and guests of builders merchants trade organisation the Builders Merchants Federation braved hurricane-force winds and torrential rain swept in by Storm Eowyn raised £8,500 for charity at the trade body’s annual Burns Night Supper on January 24. The BMF’s Burns Night celebration, which commemorates the life and works of …

Independent Builders Merchant Group, South East has been presented with a bespoke commemorative trowel in recognition of reaching a £300,000 lifetime donation to the charity Teenage Cancer Trust. The partnership with Teenage Cancer Trust started 12 years ago with Parker Building Supplies, and has since expanded to incorporate Chandlers Building Supplies and Fairalls Builders …

Travis Perkins has revealed it axed jobs at the end of last year and stated it plans to make further cuts as a result of a slowdown in construction. The Group, which also own Toolstation, mainly cut jobs at its Northampton headquarters and its central support teams – some of …