AND FINALLY Elliotts raises over £6,800 for local hospice
Elliotts, the Hampshire-based builders merchant, has raised over £6,800 for Countess Mountbatten Hospice Charity. The money was raised by Elliotts employees, customers and suppliers via a range of fundraising activities including a golf day and the Challenge Adventure Charities ‘Annecy Challenge’ – a 550-mile bike ride through France.
Employees at Elliotts also supported the charity by volunteering at their summer fete, supplying materials for the planters
Chilly partnership for Keyline and Hanson Cement
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Civils specialist merchant Keyline and cement producer Hanson Cement have worked together to ship bagged cement from Hanson’s Ketton cement works more than 9,600 miles for use in the upgrade of Rothera Wharf in Antarctica.
The work is part of a long- term programme to modernise infrastructure at British Antarctic Survey’s Rothera Research Station to ensure its facilities continue to enable world-leading research.
The wharf upgrade will improve operations and allow it to accommodate the polar research vessel RRS Sir David Attenborough as well as reduce manual handling cargo loading/ unloading time.
Hanson worked with BAM Nuttall and Keyline over a 14-month period of testing to perfect the technical specification of the cement, which needs to withstand the rigors of one of the harshest climates on Earth. Once the formulation was agreed the company had just three weeks to produce and bag 125 tonnes to be shipped from Teessport docks.
Each of the 5,000 25kg bags had to be vacuum sealed and double shrink wrapped onto heat-treated pallets to ensure Antarctica’s fragile ecosystem was not threatened by the transference of any harmful organisms or non-native species of plants or animals.
Norbord sponsors local rugby team
Players at Bannockburn Rugby Club are playing in a brand new kit this season thanks to a major sponsorship by Norbord. Club Vice President, Michael Martin Kenny, explained: “We have approximately 200 members and operate mini, midi and adult sections. Stirling County is the biggest club in the area and we’re a partner to them. The donation has been fantastic and we are delighted to have Norbord on board. The company’s sponsorship not only helped us purchase kits; it also allowed us to use other money we’d raised to fund a modern apprentice through Active Stirling. He visits local primary schools giving taster sessions and training. That wouldn’t have been possible without Norbord’s help.”
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Timber products and roofing batten importer SR Timber has donated a range of timber products totalling more than £6,000 in value to Vision West Nottinghamshire College’s Construction Centre in Kirkby-in- Ashfield.
Nearly 200 students will benefit as a direct result of the donation
in the hospice garden and donating clothes and goods for the hospice to sell in their charity boutiques. Rachel Rawlings, Corporate Engagement & Partnerships Fundraiser at Countess
Mountbatten Hospice Charity, said “We were absolutely delighted to be nominated by staff at Elliotts as their charity of the year for 2018/19. The whole team across all the branches were really keen to get involved and took part in a whole host of fundraising initiatives.
We can’t thank the team at
Elliotts enough for all the hard work they put in to the year, and how far this will go towards supporting patients and families at the Hospice.”
The cheque was presented to the charity by Tom Elliott, managing director of Elliotts, who said: “We are thrilled to have supported the Countess Mountbatten Hospice Charity. Many Elliotts employees have a connection to the hospice and I hope the money we have raised will help the hospice continue the vital work that they do.”
BLANCO supports Kilimanjaro climb
BLANCO UK has sponsored a trek by Joe Lyons, director of LYONS NI Ltd, a Northern Ireland-based kitchen component distributor, up to the summit of the world’s highest freestanding mountain, Mount Kilimanjaro, in aid of the Irish Rugby Football Union Charitable Trust. Lyons’ endeavours helped raise funds to support seriously injured rugby players in their everyday lives. He said: “The climb was tough but very successful with
all 32 team members, including four Irish rugby legends, reaching the 5895m summit together.”
SR Timber donates to promote construction skils
of batten and panels, which the college estimates will keep them in raw materials for two years. Students from the college visited SR Timber’s depot in Huthwaite to collect the materials, and they were able to fill four transit vans. Andrew Whyley, Programme Area Leader for Carpentry and Joinery at the college, said he was delighted when SR Timber’s Trading Manager Mark Parkes got in touch to make the donation. “We go through a lot of materials – which is why the donation from SR Timber is so gratefully received,” he said. “Usually, local firms generously donate offcuts and other scrap, but in this case it feels like Christmas has come early.”
www.buildersmerchantsjournal.net June 2019
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