Selco Builders Warehouse has announced four winners of its nationwide community heroes campaign, which celebrates charities and projects through a combination of donated building materials and a £20,000 prize pool. The nationwide campaign, running since February 2025, has supported 40 organisations who each received £1,000 worth of building materials from …
Read More »Travis Perkins and Selco invest in BMDS Data Yard
Building Materials Digital Services Ltd (BMDS), the joint venture between the BMF and NMBS, created to provide Data Yard, an industry-owned data pool, has gained support from two of the largest merchant groups in the industry, with Travis Perkins PLC and Selco Builders Warehouse joining BMDS as external shareholders. This …
Read More »Selco colleague cycles for Cancer Research UK
Kody Taylor, a trade sales assistant at Selco Builders Warehouse’s Exeter store, rode 330 miles in three-and-a-half days to raise money for Cancer Research UK. Taylor completed the challenge by cycling dozens of miles a day around Exeter and the wider Devon area, cycling the equivalent distance between Exeter and …
Read More »Touring Car champion drives into Selco
London motorsport enthusiasts will have the chance to go full throttle against defending British Touring Car champion Jake Hill at a special event at Selco Builders Warehouse in Southwark. On October 2 between 10am and 2pm customers and other members of the general public will be invited to challenge Hill …
Read More »Selco donates building materials to Peterborough charity
Little Miracles, a Peterborough-based charity, which supports families of children with additional needs, disabilities and life-limiting conditions, has received a donation of materials from a local Selco branch. The charity has been able to add an outdoor area to it’s garden room, part of the charity’s Peterborough head office, thanks …
Read More »Elkins rejoins BMF Board
Frank Elkins, CEO of Selco and GB Distribution at Grafton Group plc, has been elected to the Board of the Builders Merchants Federation for a second term, starting on April 1 2025. Elkins has already served as a BMF Board member for two years, from April 2021 to April 2023, …
Read More »Sign the pledge
Always two there are, a master and an apprentice. It’s National Apprenticeships Week, so it’s fitting that I begin this with a congratulatory slap on the back for the Builders Merchants Federation, which has hit its target of 15,000 by 2030 five years early. With target management like that, there’s …
Read More »Slough youth charity wins Selco support
A charity that provides essential youth services in Slough is planning upgrades to its High Street facility after winning the support of a leading builders merchant in a national competition. Together As One has been named as a monthly winner in Selco Builders Warehouse’s Community Heroes competition, securing £500 to …
Read More »Selco moves to keep banter fun
Selco Builders Warehouse has started providing training for its near 3,000-strong workforce as part of the “Better Banter” programme. The initiative has been provided as part of a joint partnership between Halborns Law and the Builders Merchant Federation. Sally Kerr, HR director for Selco Builders Warehouse, said: “We have strong, …
Read More »Selco assists trip down memory lane
A recently-founded Southampton charity which supports people living with dementia, poor mental health or in social isolation across Hampshire and Dorset has claimed success in a national community competition. The Memory Box Foundation, which was established in 2021 and supports more than 6,000 people a year, has been named as …
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