AND FINALLY
Christmas card competition from W. Howard
W.Howard organised a Christmas card competition for children at Gilded Hollins Community Primary School in Leigh, Lancashire.
Every child was given a
W.Howard tree template and asked to design a Christmas tree to be used on
W.Howard’s
company Christmas card. Designs were submitted by all 209 pupils and a winner was chosen from each class. National account manager at
W.Howard Group, Rob Povah, visited Gilded Hollins on November 29 to present the winners with their prizes. Each child who submitted a winning design received an artist collection gift box, while every child in the school received a chocolate selection box as a thank you for taking part. Rob Povah said: “The winning designs have now been turned into Christmas cards and we look forward to our customers receiving them soon. “We would like to thank every pupil, and all of the staff at Gilded Hollins Community Primary School, for all the effort and hard work they put into the designs. We were blown away by the children’s creativity, which made picking the winners exceptionally tough!”
Grant UK sponsors local grassroots mini and junior rugby teams
Grant UK announced its sponsorship of Melksham RFC’s mini and junior section rugby teams. For the 2021/22 season, Grant UK will be the main sponsor of these teams, supporting them at all their fixtures. During this season, Grant UK’s logo will be positioned on the shirt fronts and shorts of the players who form the junior and mini section teams, totalling 195 boys
and girls. As a headline sponsor, Grant UK also has perimeter boarding around the grounds and the company is looking forward to playing its own part in the club’s season.
Anna Wakefield, head of marketing at Grant UK, said: “Grant UK is proud to sponsor another grassroots sports club which is supporting children in the local area near to our Company head office here in Wiltshire. Melksham RFC has a strong set of teams who are all ready for the rugby season and we are excited to be one of the headline sponsors supporting the young players.”
Re-used materials idea wins CLC Dragons’ Den prize A system to allow the re-use of surplus
building materials by DIYers won a Dragons’ Den competition, launched by the Construction Leadership council and BEIS, sponsored by the Builders Merchants Federation, targeted at young professionals in the industry, to accelerate the sector’s drive to net zero. The panel, chaired by Andrew Griffith MP, the UK’s Net Zero Business
Champion and consisting of Andy Mitchell (CEO, Thames Tideway and Co- Chair of the CLC), John Newcomb (CEO, BMF), Chris Goodier (Loughborough University) and Adam Cane (ACO Water Management) interviewed the final four finalists from a competition that attracted twelve exceptional entries. The winner, Peter Morgan of the Manufacturing Technology Centre, pitched the idea of an online and physical presence for surplus and left- over building materials for the DIYer to utilise for a small charge. The panel agreed this could be set up with minimal delay and trialled regionally.
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