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AND FINALLY Industry goes yellow for Maddie Rose Campaign


The construction industry took on a decidely yellow hue last month, when it set out to raise awareness of the Maddie Rose Campaign, which aims to open up the sector to young people, helping them grow and find worthwhile careers.


For the second year in a row, people across the sector donned their best yellow clothes, bought ties, wore ribbons, and turned their logos and social media feeds yellow, Maddie’s favourite colour, and prefaced everything


IBMG sponsors rugby clubs across South of England


with the hashtag #maddiesday. The Maddie Rose Campaign has now raised well over £150,000, in two years from individual donations and events like the Polypipe Duck Race, and the Genuit Group Golf Day to the charity collection at the last two BMJ Industry Awards, this year’s BMF Awards, the 3Ms lunch, and including the Construction Industry Ride for Youth. Organised by IBC Buying Group, the


Construction Industry Ride for Youth took a team from Lands End to John O Groats, and raised £30,000 to be shared across the Maddie Rose Campaign and Unitas Youth Trust.


Band of Builders helps ten-year-old quad amputee


Band of Builders has helped Luke Mortimer who, after contracting meningococcal meningitis and septicaemia, lost his arms and legs.


For the first time Parker Building Supplies, located on Priory Rd, Tonbridge, is sponsoring the Tunbridge Wells Rugby Club’s Ladies Tour that kicks off in October.


In Surrey, Fairall Builders’ Merchant, Godstone, has renewed its sponsorship of local rugby club, Old Caterhamians, marking its tenth year of continuous sponsorship of the local club. While, for the fifth year Hastings and Bexhill Ruby Club kicks off the season with renewed sponsorship from Parker Building Supplies in Bexhill. While in the South West, RGB also announces sponsorship of Redruth RFC, Tiverton RFC and Cornish Pirates.


Martin Stable, CEO of IBMG, said: “We are so pleased to be able to provide sponsorship to numerous local clubs in the local communities where we operate. With more than 180 branches across the South of England, IBMG is always keen to give back to our local communities.”


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Mortimer thanked the team of volunteer tradespeople who have completed a project to make sig- nificant adaptations to his home in Embsay, North Yorkshire. He said: “I would like to thank the Band of Builders team for making my life so much easier around my home. I can remem- ber that when they first came the house looked like a wreck, but then within a few weeks, it


on making adaptations himself, he reached out to Band of Builders for help, as the bungalow required sinificant amount of ad- aptations and renovation work to make life easier for Luke.


looked like a dream home that you only see on TV and I still can’t thank them enough.” Mortimer’s dad is a builder, and although he had started work


Band of Builders opera- tions director Tony Steel thanked all the volunteers who donated their time and also the local com-


munity, which rallied round with donations of food and drinks to keep the volunteers fed during the project.


Tarmac celebrates 120-year anniversary


Tarmac is celebrating its 120th year anniversary since it was founded in 1903 by Edgar Hooley, the Nottinghamshire surveyor who perfected how to make roads “stick”. Originally founded as the Tarmacadam Patent Syndicate Limited in 1903, Tarmac quickly became synonymous with roads and supported the national effort in both the first and second world wars, where it helped prepare for the D-Day landings, before building the UK’s very first motorway, the Preston Bypass, in 1958.


Bevan Browne, managing director, UK Materials at Tarmac said: “From the day that Edgar Hooley first patented Tarmac, our


has since been involved with some of the UK’s most complex and iconic projects including the Wembley Stadium, Heathrow Terminal 5, The Shard, London 2012 and Silverstone resurfacing. Tarmac was the first to pioneer and launch


business has been synonymous with innovation and part of the fabric of everyday life. Hooley’s innovative spirit is embedded at the heart of our business and we’re constantly identifying ways of delivering construction and infrastructure for a net zero world.”


The business diversified into construction in the 1920s and


warm mix asphalt in 2014, which reduces carbon emissions and can be laid quicker to reduce roadworks for the travelling public.


It also became the first to purchase and operate a battery electric concrete mixer truck and currently transports millions of tonnes of materials across the UK by rail freight each year.


www.buildersmerchantsjournal.net October 2023


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