Social Value
Last week, members of the Breheny team visited Sizewell Beach to participate in a beach clean alongside other businesses and contractors, demonstrating our commitment to supporting Sizewell C in preserving the coastline. A special thank you to Onsite Support Ltd for organising the event, and to everyone who took part.
We were proud to support Coventry Peace Orchard and Cardinal Newman School in Coventry, in their commemorative activities marking the 80th anniversary of VE Day. As part of our contribution, we supplied specially designed T-shirts for students to wear during the celebrations. We also donated a selection of drinks and cakes to help make the event even more special at…
Supporting Mates in Mind – Mental Health Awareness Week! As part of our ongoing commitment to wellbeing, we proudly supported Mates in Mind during Mental Health Awareness Week by pausing work across all our sites and offices for one-hour last Wednesday. This dedicated time gave our teams a chance to step away, share coffee and cake, and have open, honest…
For International Women’s Day this year we celebrate all the wonderful women in our team at Breheny proving that there are opportunities in construction for all. A few members of our team joined the local Brownies group and took part in the #girlscandoanything job interview evening. The girls learnt about #womeninconstruction and earnt their Girl Guiding Anglia IWD badge to…
We had the pleasure of welcoming students from Chelmsford College to the site. We held a talk and presentation, giving them insight into the work we’re doing and sharing some real-world experiences from the field. The students also had the opportunity to walk around the site and see the ongoing works first hand. It was great to see such enthusiasm…
We have recently assisted Constructed Pathways at HMP Peterborough to create a new training space to allow female prisoners to engage in NHBC accredited bricklaying courses. This type of initiative is vital in addressing two significant issues in the construction industry 1. Skills shortages and 2. Attracting more woman into the industry. The works were carried out free of charge…
We were invited to attend the careers fair at St Ivo School in St Ives, Cambridgeshire to promote civil engineering as a career with around 1,000 students attending between year’s 8 to 13. The remote controlled model excavator and truck proved to be a hit with the students with our Ciara Cousins and Riley Howitt at the controls.
Our staff Kara Cattell and Summer Cooke visited Anna Bruce at East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices (EACH), The Treehouse in Suffolk to present a cheque amount of £2,836.54, which was raised in Breheny’s Annual Staff Christmas Raffle. A huge thank you to everyone that contributed, and to our suppliers that donated a prize.
Our Breheny teams have been out collecting Christmas Trees in the Peterborough area in aid of Sue Ryder who are raising money for the Thorpe Hall Hospice in Peterborough. This is a great initiative where used Christmas Trees are collected raising money for Sue Ryder and then recycled. The Breheny teams including Joe Victory, Haydn Backhouse, Harry Wilding, Gary Fowler,…
One of our teams called into Bedford Foodbank earlier this week to drop off the last Breheny food delivery before Christmas. The team dropped off nappies, food and some treats to help the Charity to distribute to people in Bedford who need some extra help over the Christmas period, the delivery was organised by our team who have been delivering…
For the last 3 years Breheny have been working in collaboration with It Takes a City (Cambridge) to transform an old community space known as Joys Garden into new accommodation for the homeless in Cambridge. An Open Day took place on 29th November so residents and the media could view the new homes, and the first resident is due to…
As part of Breheny’s commitment to community engagement our Hatchfield Farm project in Newmarket, our site team recently delivered much needed new sensory play equipment to Little Buds Nursery School. The sensory cube will help to provide the children with a safe space to access their sensory needs and was specifically asked for by the Nursery. This donation follows on…