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Broadview Blinds provides for Cherry Lane
herry Lane Primary School in Hillingdon, Middlesex, housed in a pre-war building, had to look at providing suitable covered outdoor play areas for their Nursery & Reception Classes. This was to satisfy the requirement to provide a ‘Free Flow Day’ for the Nursery Class whereby the children can go outdoors to play
if they so wish or in the case of the Reception Class facilities have to include ‘good arrangements for outdoor play’.
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he Cooper School in Bicester, Oxfordshire has won Heckmondwike FB’s popular ‘Carpet for Schools’ competition. The competition received an overwhelming response this year, with over 350 entries, with the Cooper School selected at random to win Heckmondwike FB’s Supacord carpet, plus fitting, to a value of £1,000. Mr Ben Baxter, Headteacher at The Cooper School, said: “It was a great surprise to win the competition and fantastic to have Heckmondwike FB supporting us in upgrading our school, especially when budgets are tight. We have used Supacord before in our classrooms and it stands up to the rigors of school life really well, so it’s great that we won this competition and can further upgrade the flooring in other important areas.” Abby Chandler, Marketing Manager, Heckmondwike FB, explains: “We had an overwhelming response to our Carpet for Schools competition, with over twice as many entries as last year. We have enjoyed a strong working relationship with schools over the past 40 years and we congratulate the winners on their success and hope they enjoy their prizes!” Runners up in the competition include second prizes of a Sebo vacuum cleaner and £200 each for Poltair School in Cornwall, Wonersh and Shamley Green C of E Infant School in Surrey and Tewkesbury School in Gloucestershire and third prizes of £100 each went to North Baddesley Junior School, Woodlawn School and Burlescombe Primary Schools. Heckmondwike FB is one of the leading carpet suppliers to the education, commercial and public sectors and is well-known for the excellent value, durability and high performance of its products.
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The Headmaster and the Premises Sub-Committee looked at a number of options and concluded that these conditions would be best served by the installation of Sun Rain Style Awnings by Broadview Blinds. These offer a number of by providing a generous covered area for play as well as a sunshade which protects the classroom from the intense sun rays. This is in addition to providing a shelter from the inclement weather for parents when collecting the children after school. They also look very attractive set against the brickwork of the school building. Broadview Blinds Ltd was appointed to design a full weather structure that could be retractable in various locations around the school buildings totalling an overall area of 224 sqm2 of covered space. The “Sun-Rain” Style retractable frame awnings were installed projecting from the building and supported on specially fabricated steel structures for strength. Aesthetics were important in order for the awnings to look like part of the school construction so special powder coating of the hardware in anthracite grey colour was undertaken.
A total of seven Broadview Sun-Rain Terrace Frame awnings and one B28 Elite Cassette awning controlled with Somfy Centralis wall switches and cream vinyl flame retardent fabrics were supplied. Installation took just 3 days for the Broadview team.
The School Governors and Teaching Staff were delighted with the outcome commented that the whole project was handled in a very timely & professionally way by the Broadview team from start to finish. The project was both on time and within budget. The client was extremely impressed with the service and attention to detail from Broadview.
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