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Toolstation and Young Person’s Community Interest Company, VIY, help refurbish Middleton Select Amateur Boxing Club
Toolstation, one of Britain’s fastest growing suppliers
of
tools, accessories and building supplies, has announced its fourth tie-up with the Volunteer It Yourself (VIY) Community Interest Company, helping fund the young volunteers participation in refurbishing the Middleton Select Amateur Boxing Club, based on Windemere Road. The project will bring brand new, improved changing
facilities to the boxing club, aiming to attract
SOLEX 2022 space is sold out
new community members and help boost their revenues. The project saw 18 volunteers, aged between 14-24 years old, the majority of whom are disengaged or excluded from mainstream education and training, help to improve the club facilities. The renovation included adding in new toilets and showers, upgrading the changing rooms, and building an accessible bathroom, which was not available before the refurbishment began.
skills training, and mentoring of the volunteers were funded by Toolstation. The initiative is helping more young people learn DIY and trade skills and to consider a career
in the construction In total the group spent 25
days on the project, learning new hands-on skills and gaining meaningful work experience. The City & Guilds accreditations,
and building industry. The VIY programme combines DIY and volunteering and challenges young people to help repair and refurbish community facilities while learning vocational trade skills on the job, helping them become more employable in the construction sector. The refurbishment of Middleton Select Amateur Boxing Club is the fourth VIY project which Toolstation has helped to fund, with previous projects including the creation of an outdoor social and exercise space for Coventrians RFC.
Lord Mayor Councillor Clare Louise Carragher and Merseyrail FC Players open new Travis Perkins branch
After a two-year Covid induced absence SOLEX (The Summer Outdoor Living Exhibition) space has sold out, and there is already an exhibitor waiting list for 2023! This is great news for the exhibition and the industry, as we will once again be bringing together all the top outdoor leisure brands from across the UK, Ireland, and Europe under one roof. This year the exhibition is in halls 17/18/19 from 12-14 July 2022 NEC, Birmingham and we just can’t wait to see everyone again. As well as three packed halls filled with fantastic furniture, BBQs, firepits, heaters, chimeneas, spas, lighting, outdoor buildings, gazebos, parasols, and garden accessories, we have, for the first time, a Loving Outdoor Living Zone outside hall 17 where our BBQ and firepit exhibitors will be lighting up their fire products for everyone to see and maybe cooking up the odd, tasty treat for visitors.
Gina Hinde, Solex Director,
says: “ I am really excited about the level of interest for the exhibition and really looking forward to welcoming all the exhibitors and visitors back again after our two- year break.” Visit
www.solexexhibition. com for more details.
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Travis Perkins has opened the doors to its latest branch in Liverpool, with a little help from Sefton Council’s Mayor. Councillor Clare Louise Carragher and players from Merseyrail FC were the guests of honour as Travis Perkins opened its new branch in Liverpool, Aintree. The new branch has created 20 new jobs, with a quarter of those filled by women, in what is traditionally a male dominated sector.
The new branch is 2.5 acres in size, almost the size of two football pitches. The site will also include electric forklift trucks and electric charging points.
The new branch will include
Travis Perkins’ trusted Hire Service, where customers can hire quality
up-to-date tools,
Evergreen brings commercial strategy closer together
Evergreen Garden Care has invested £7 million this year in order to increase their peat free production capacity – announced back at GLEE in 2021 - cementing their position as
leading the peat free
roadmap but demonstrating the
scale of investment
required by manufacturers due to the different handling requirements of raw materials in peat free mixes. In response to this increased demand and strategic plan, Evergreen Garden Care has made
some key changes
plant, and equipment plus get all their building supplies in one go, and get expert know-how to keep customers safe. Its yard will also boast an expansive range of products including bricks, blocks, timber, lintels, drainage and landscaping. There is also a Benchmarx Kitchen and Joinery showroom in Aintree, less than one mile from the new branch. Branch manager William
John Dempsey says: “We’re really excited to have opened the doors to our new site to the tradespeople and builders of Liverpool. We’re delighted to be offering hard landscaping for the first time as well as showcasing our new Benchmarx kitchen showroom and Hire Service. We have a great team in place and have everything you need, when and where you need it.
Tarmac supports Band of Builders garden makeover for woman whose dog detected her cancer
dog alerted her to ovarian cancer. The landscaping project was the team from
supported by
Tarmac has teamed up with Band of Builders a national charity
for tradespeople, to
help transform the garden of a South Shields woman whose
Tarmac’s cement business and saw half a dozen voluntary tradespeople landscape Tess Robinson’s garden to make it a more peaceful and relaxing space for her to continue her recovery from chemotherapy. These volunteers – who are part of the Band of Builders community – will offer their time and expertise to ensure Tess can benefit from a newly renovated garden. The main element of the project will be to build a new
decked area in the garden so that Tess can sit outside and enjoy the sunshine. Tess Robinson says that if it
wasn’t for her dog Lola jumping on her stomach and smelling her breath, her low-grade serous carcinoma (LGSC), a rare form of ovarian cancer, may have gone undetected for longer.
After witnessing some peculiar behaviour from her chihuahua, the dog then jumped on Tess’s abdomen which resulted in her doubling over in pain and making the decision to go to A and E, where she was later diagnosed with stage 3 LGSC.
internally to the Leadership Team and the roles that manage both Supply Chain and Sales. Phil Harrison will move across to Operations & Supply Chain Director from his current role as Sales Director for Independents. Phil has been an important strategic member of the UK Leadership Team for over three years where he has built strong relationships with our key customers across the country. Mark Portman, UK Managing
Director said: “This move demonstrates the strength of talent we have in the organisation to be able to promote people from within. This move will further bring
and Operations & Supply Chains closer together as we continue to improve the service that we give to our customers.”
Phil Harrison said: “I am looking forward to taking on this new challenge within Evergreen. It’s essential for Supply Chain and Sales to work together closely to ensure that we can meet demands to satisfy the needs of the growing number of gardeners across the country.”
As part of the changes Andy
Williams, currently Regional Manager for the South within Independents, will take on the role of interim Head of Sales for with all of the Independents Sales team reporting into Andy. As part of this change Andy will sit as part of the UK Leadership Team. A final change is that Nic
Griffin will take on the additional responsibility of interim Southern Region Sales Team Manager.
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