Our Employees

We provided sponsorship to Eddie Young, our Head of Building Services, for his participation in a charity fund raising walk along the Great Wall of China which he claims was an experience of a lifetime.
Between 16th and 26th May 2008, a team of about 35 walked for six days along the Great Wall of China to raise money for the British Olympic Foundation and Cancer Research. The walk itself was titled `Walk like an Olympian` as the group included previous Olympic participants such as Steve Cram, Allison Curbishley, Karen Pickering, Steve Smith and Guin Batten.
The walk covered the areas of the wall North of Beijing around Jinshanling, Simatia and Gubeikou and included lengths of the Great Wall which date back to 2000 BC to parts which were re-built in the early part of the twentieth century for more recent conflicts.
The wall itself covers a total approximate length of over 4000 miles and has been walked in its entirety (which took just over two years) - luckily for Eddie and his fellow walkers, they only walked between five to eight miles a day!
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We attended a charity fundraising auction raising money for Children in Crisis and bid successfully for tickets to see Coldplay perform at the 02 Arena.

Children in Crisis works to give children in some of the world's poorest countries the educational opportunities they need to help transform their lives.

We were pleased to offer our support to one of our Contracts Managers, Tony Hunt, as he participated in the Flora London Marathon on 26th April 2009 raising money for Macmillan Cancer Support.

Macmillan Cancer Support help improve the lives of peopleliving with cancer and their families and carers. One in three people get cancer and we are all affected; Macmillan ain to be a source of support. Their primary goal for 2010 is to reach and improve the lives of everyone living with cancer.

We chose not to send Christmas cards again this year and instead opted to give money to charity whilst supporting the local community.

We teamed up with Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) and Simon Hughes, local MP, and ran a competition for the children of Cathedral School of St Saviour & St Mary Overy to design a poster depicting 'What Christmas Means to Me'.

The competition was judged by a GOSH representative, Simon Hughes and our MD, Mark Richards, and resulted in the winning children and runners up being awarded a prize and the school being given £500 towards arts & crafts materials.

In addition to this we presented a cheque for £1,000 to Great Ormond Street Hospital in support of the world-class care that they provide for their young patients and their families and to pioneer new treatments and cures for childhood illness.