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Franke staff volunteer to help Groundwork improve green spaces in Greater Manchester
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ranke staff have been helping to improve green spaces across Greater Manchester after teaming up with national
charity Groundwork to volunteer their time at four community projects across the city. Twenty employees from the Franke team each spent a day working in
the outdoors supporting initiatives set up by local people and backed by the charity, which aims to create a sustainable future for people, places and businesses in Greater Manchester. Across the four volunteering days Franke staff have helped the Friends
of Turn Moss in Stretford to improve their much- loved park by creating a wildflower meadow and extending their pond area. They also undertook various tasks at Trafford Eco Park, home to Groundwork’s head office, including clearing an area to make way for an outdoor classroom and laying a woodland path to improve accessibility. Later in the month they helped to develop the allotment area at the Lighthouse Centre in Brinnington to help revitalise the area and their final volunteering day consisted of helping the Friends of Lostock Park to remove self-sown tree seedlings from a large wild flower bed, preparing a new rockery outside the group’s hut and varnishing wooden animal sculptures around the park. Jeanette Ward, communications manager for Franke UK, said: “This is the second year that Franke has volunteered with Groundwork Greater Manchester and we have thoroughly enjoyed getting hands on with various tasks to improve local green spaces, so that communities can enjoy them. We see the partnership with Groundwork as a great way to make a real,
tangible difference in local communities. It’s also a great opportunity for staff to learn new skills, strengthen team relations and gain a sense of achievement through giving back to local communities and projects.” Liz Edwards, from Groundwork Greater Manchester, said: “We really
appreciate the hard work from the volunteers at Franke who have given their time to help another four community projects. This support is vital to our community groups and has given all the community volunteers a real boost to their project.”
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TTA Awards 2020 – Could this be your year?
could be of interest to those working in the kitchen and bathroom industries. These include project categories: Best Domestic Project; Best Commercial Project – Small (up to 250sq m); Best Commercial Project – Large (over 250sq m); Best Heritage Project. Many of the entrants in these categories, particularly Best Domestic, feature kitchen or bathroom work. There are also people categories including: Tile Fixer of the Year;
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Trainee Tile Fixer of the Year; and Employee of the Year – not to mention business categories and Awards for the best new products. Anyone interested in entering this year is encouraged to get working on
their entries now. The big Awards night will take place on Friday 27 March at The Hilton Birmingham Metropole. This year there will be no chance of the deadline for entries being extended beyond 31 December. So don’t get caught out – do the work now – the rewards are considerable! Winning a TTA Award is the biggest accolade possible in the tiling
industry, bestowing long-lasting kudos and acclaim on to those who do well. A couple of the categories – Tile Fixer of the Year and Trainee Tile Fixer of the Year – additionally offer some really attractive prizes, as well as the Award itself. As previous winners have discovered, winning a TTA Award can have a major impact on the development of a business or the success of a new product. All winners are able to promote their success in marketing activities for their brand or product in the months following their win. The cachet of ‘TTA Award Winner’ really can make a difference! TTA is very grateful, as ever, to its Award sponsors. This year’s Gold sponsors are: Banks & Lloyd, Jackoboard, Mapei, Norcros Adhesives, Palace Chemicals, PCS, Shackerley (Holdings) Group Ltd., Tilemaster Adhesives, Trimline Group, UltraTileFix. Silver sponsors are: CITB and Lithofin. The Awards are free to enter and full details, together with the online entry form can be found on the Awards website at
www.ttaawards.com.
he TTA Awards are now open for entry until the end of December and feature a number of categories which
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