AND FINALLY
Rob Bent joins Selco for Community
Heroes campaign
Selco Builders Warehouse has partnered with tradesperson and TV personality Rob Bent for its Community Heroes campaign 2026.
Now in its sixth year, The Community Heroes fund is open to any community group, club or charity that would benefit from building supplies or funding to improve their local area.
Selco will work alongside Bent to select winners to receive a share of the campaign’s £62,000 prize fund between April and November.
Eight monthly winners will receive £2,000 worth of building supplies to spend at their local Selco store, along with a place in the final vote. Two runners-up will also receive £1,000
worth of building supplies, and at the end of the year, the monthly winners will go forward to a public vote,. First place will be awarded £15,000, with second and third place receiving £10,000 and £5,000 respectively.
Bent comments: “Community projects are the heartbeat of local areas. They bring us together and make a real difference but too often run on passion alone. Grassroots initiatives often lack the support they deserve, so I’m excited to be partnering with Selco on the Community Heroes campaign and can’t wait to see the impact it has.” Entries close on November 30, with the overall winner crowned in January 2027.
RDT goes mad in March
The Rainy Day Trust’s Mad March Million challenge has broken its headline target. The sector-wide movement challenge, delivered in partnership with workplace wellbeing specialists Wellbeing People, launched on March 1 2026, encouraging participants to commit to just 10 minutes of extra movement every day throughout the month.
The collective goal of 1 million steps, was reached on Day 18, with participation and engagement continuing to grow.
Companies taking part included Toolbank, IRSAP UK, the Builders Merchants Federation (below), NBG, Horwood, AkzoNobel, and a number of BIRA members, alongside teams from the Rainy Day Trust itself.
Entries have included lunchtime river walks, kitchen discos, hula hooping before work, walking meetings, gym sessions, family park visits, stair climbs at the Eiffel Tower.
Chief executive officer of the Rainy Day Trust, Anna Skeats, said: “Mad March Million has exceeded every expectation we had for it, not just in the numbers, but in what it has revealed about the character of our sector. These are people who show up. For their customers, for their teams, and now, through this campaign, for themselves and for each other.
“What we have built this month is proof that wellbeing doesn’t need to be complicated or expensive to be genuinely transformative.
“The Donations raised through Mad March Million go directly to supporting colleagues across our sector who are navigating real crisis, sudden illness, financial hardship, bereavement, moments when they don’t know which way to turn. The Rainy Day Trust has been there for those moments for 182 years. This campaign helps us stay there.”
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Across 9 Inverted slow-mover (5) 10 Hyped too high (9) 11 Carton containing other cartons (5) 12 Exciting experience (9) 13 Teetotal (3) 14 Once the subject of a financial bubble (5) 15 House of worship (9) 17 Explode (5) 19 It’s white for a new Pope (5) 22 Construction sites with slipways (9) 24 Informal greeting (3,2) 26 Temporary home for many serious cases (1-1,1) 27 Most employees think this of themselves (9) 29 Goes for gold? (5) 30 Lofty (9) 31 Military subdivisions (5)
Down 1 Dates (7) 2 Backpackers’ stopover (6) 3 Neither you nor me but the other guy (5,5) 4 Sudden attacks (6) 5 Portions (8) 6 Left behind after a cat vanishes (4) 7 Conflict (8) 8 Stuck redhead goes crazy (7) 16 Pleasant mood (4,6) 17 Beneficiary of a Biblical miracle (5,3) 18 Corrida star (8) 20 Soften minced sausage (7) 21 Hold (7) 23 The “Ice Age” 9 Across (6) 25 Advantageous to both sides (3-3) 28 Harassed persistently (4)
WIN a bottle of something fizzy from BMJ’s local award- winning winery Chapel Down. Simply send in your completed scanned crossword entry, including your name and address to
bmjournaldotnet@gmail.com by the end of the month. Or, post it to BMJ, Dateam Business Media, 15A London Road, Maidstone ME16 8LY.
Entries must be received by May 5th Last month’s solution
Across: 4 Slabs, 9 Oatmeal, 10 Ensue, 11 Erase 12 Salvage, 13 Route, 14 Plebs, 17 Acacia, 18 Wept 19 Rainy, 21 Tusker, 23 Geneva, 26 Sells, 27 Moss, 29 Strife, 30 Forts, 33 Merci, 34 Turkish, 35 Rodeo, 36 Nails, 37 Oracle, 38 Tuned
Down: 1 Constant, 2 Italians, 3 Sedatives, 4 Sleep, 5 Abate, 6 Seers, 7 Assure 8 Reject, 15 Leaflet, 16 Bung, 20 Yesterday, 22 Redo, 24 Eligible, 25 Amethyst, 27 Moment, 28 Sordid, 30 First, 31 Radon, 32 Stood
• Last Month
Congratulations to the winner of our last crossword, Lee Cannon from Hevey Building Supplies. Your prize will be with you in due course.
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