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Keylite crowned winners at the NI Social Media Awards 2023


Keylite Roof Windows (Keylite) has taken home the award for the “Best Use of Social Media in Service / B2B” at the 2023 Northern Ireland Social Media Awards for its Kick it with Keylite 2022 charity initiative, which it took part in to support mental health awareness. It’s reported that men in the UK and Northern Ireland are three times more likely to die by suicide than women. However, in construction – a male-dominated


Builder’s brew is off the menu!


industry – men are three times more likely to die by suicide than the national average for men. Irish-owned roof window manufacturer, Keylite, decided


to play its part in combatting the stigma around mental health by supporting Mates in Mind, a leading charity that works to raise awareness for these issues within the construction sector. Keylite did this through its 2022 Kick it with Keylite campaign, which challenged the construction industry to ‘keep it up’. Encouraging merchants, trades and all those in the sector to record themselves doing as many keepie


Neoperl hold its “Neolympic” event


Neoperl has announced its staff have been taking part in a Neolympic event for the past five weeks, playing a game a week with teammates from all departments across the company.


A study of tradespeople has revealed that two thirds, 66%, love bacon and that baked beans are their least favourite item - and most surprising of all, 20% said they prefer a glass of water over a brew.


The study, conducted by metals4U, asked tradespeople their favourite breakfast items. It revealed that 30% chose coffee as their drink of choice, 21% said they’d have juice or water and only 16% would choose a cup of tea. Bacon and sausage were neck and neck for the title of a builder’s favourite breakfast item, with 43% of builders choosing them. It was a tight run contest between the two for the favourite breakfast sarnie, but bacon, 36%, just edged out sausage, 34%. Builder’s top five items are included; bacon (43%), sausage (43%), fried egg (37%) and scrambled egg (34%).


Builder’s least favourite items included; black pudding (8%), hashbrowns (12%), beans (16%), toast (19%) and fried bread (24%).


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Its 150+ staff based on the Malvern site were invited to join, and teams were created combining staff from different departments and shifts – its staff played Football, Speed Pool, Netball Goals, Pyramid Cup Challenge and Cornhole. Mike Burton, operational


site director at Neoperl UK, said: “Although these were sporting events, we learned so much more. It was a great Teamwork exercise where everyone had an input and encouraged each other, albeit through tears of laughter sometimes.


“It was an initiative that we believe will improve communication significantly throughout the business. We found that by placing people in teams that they did not work with daily, encouraged everyone to communicate. From rounding


Civils Store raises over £26,000 for Air Ambulance UK


Civils Store has raised £26,412.80 for Air Ambulance UK at its black- tie charity dinner, as it celebrated its 10 year anniversary. The event was held at the de Vere Tortworth Court Hotel, Wotton -under-Edge, Gloucestershire on July 2; the event featured a Gala Dinner, Charity Auction, Raffle, Casino and Live Music.


A spokesperson for Civils said: “The amount or money raised has exceeded all our expectations and is testament to the generosity of the amazing industry that we are all proud to be part of.” Over forty suppliers and customers supported the event


up the team to attend on time to working out the best way to play, to cheering and encouraging their teammates on and the feedback from staff was all very positive indeed.”


Stelrad provides radiators for cricket club


by way of table sponsorship and donations of raffle prizes. Emma Carter, from Air Ambulance UK, spoke at the evening reminding; everyone that on average each life- saving mission by the Air Ambulance costs £3,962 and is funded almost entirely by the kind donations provided by events such as Civils and members of the public.


Stelrad has announced it has provided support to Ashington Cricket Club, it provided them with replacement radiators. The town of Ashington, in Northumberland, has recently come into the news because it is the birthplace of 1966 World Cup Winners Bobby and Jackie Charlton, the former passing away recently.


“It is a tough job in this current economic climate to keep the club financially afloat. If it was not for sponsors and businesses like Stelrad who support us, we would definetly struggle,” said Steve Storey, club chairperson.


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uppies as they can, share on social, donate to the charity and nominate a ‘mate in mind’ to get involved using the hashtag #KeepItUp. 2022 witnessed its best year yet for the Kick it with Keylite initiative, hosting over fifty pop-up events at builders’ merchants across the UK and Ireland, ‘keep it up’ videos posted across social media, and most importantly, £20,000 raised for such a vital charity.


Orlagh Bibby, head of marketing & E-Commerce at Keylite, said: “We are delighted to have been awarded “Best Use of Social Media in Service/B2B” by NI Social Media Awards for our #KeepItUp Kick it with Keylite Campaign.”


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