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COMPANY PROFILE - BY SANDRA DICK


 GRASSROOTS: PJ Skips sponsor the local U12's  PJ SKIPS gradually expanded from waste collection to waste recycling


A chance opportunity that turned into a multi-million pound caring business


IT wouldn’t have been a terribly large advert, but the notice tucked away in the pages of the Daily Express back in 1982 was big enough to change lives. Not only did it inspire the launch of a multi-million pound business, but it would be one that’s now bringing comfort and nourishment to the hungry and vulnerable. Peter Baker Beall was farming the land at his childhood home, Cophall Farm at Polegate near Eastbourne at the time. He was making a little extra from a logging business he ran from adjoining woodland, when he spotted the advert. It off ered an opportunity to take on a mini-skip business, complete with a 3.5


tonne vehicle, 15 skips and a book on how to get things started. “To be honest, I think it was more of a pamphlet,” said Peter’s niece Harriet Hamer. “But he fi gured he could take a skip load of logs out to a customer, empty this and then bring it back fi lled with waste, and it would work well.”


What Peter started in the early 1980s has now evolved into a business boasting a £4m a year turnover.


PJ Skips employs 40 extremely dedicated staff , and it has a fl eet of 18 modern trucks – there are 7.5 tonne skip trucks through


 PETER Baker Beall with Fleet Manager John Urben


12 SHWM September, 2018


to 32 tonne eight-wheelers, covering all kinds of services for domestic and commercial businesses. There’s a fully licensed recycling facility handling thousands of tonnes of aggregate annually. Construction industry waste is screened, crushed and graded on site and becomes high quality recycled aggregates. The business has scope to handle up to 75,000 tonnes of waste per year. That alone is quite a success story from one advert, a truck and a ‘how to run a skip business’ book. But PJ Skips wanted to go the extra mile. In recent weeks it has announced a new venture: a substantial sponsorship deal with their local Hailsham Foodbank to help provide a part-time administrator and purchase extra services, products and food to help those unfortunate enough to be trapped in a harsh era of austerity and cuts. Every month the businesses deliver an impressive sum to the foodbank’s coff ers, and certainly not because PJ Skips’ trio of directors think it will bring orders for skips. That’s unlikely from individuals who can barely aff ord to put food on the table, but they do so because they believe it’s the right thing to do. “We felt the community supports us a business, and we wanted to give it something back,” said managing director Nick Ellwood. “There’s so much austerity. In Hailsham alone, around 1,500 people have been fed through the food bank. The town’s population is 25,000 - that’s a high proportion of people in need.


www.skiphiremagazine.co.uk


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