Throughout the year, various teams and individual employees engaged in a variety of events aimed at raising funds for different charities and causes.

Our Group charity, the ‘Nexus Community Trust’, organised a range of fundraising events and activities including bingo, raffles, coffee mornings and bake sales. The charities that have benefited from these efforts include Barnardo’s, MacMillan Cancer Support, The Pink Ribbon Foundation, Alzheimer’s Society and the Essex Air Ambulance.

Tamdown, once again, took part in the annual Housebuilder Challenge in support of the Youth Adventure Trust. The charity offers vulnerable young people a programme of outdoor activity and support that aims to help them increase resilience, build confidence, and learn new skills so that they can fulfil their potential and lead better lives. The Housebuilder Challenge brings teams together from across the housebuilding industry to take on a tough hiking challenge. This year the event took place through the spectacular Black Mountains in the Brecon Beacons in Wales and raised over £90,000 for the charity.

Teams and individuals from across the Group took advantage of their volunteering days to support local community organisations. Tamdown’s Commercial team set aside their calculators for the day to assist at a local pre-school by laying a foundation for the construction of a storage shed.

In the summer, our Stanford-le-Hope site team, led by Site Manager James Kennedy, organised a delivery of wooden battens along with other donated materials to the Aveley Men’s Shed, a charity dedicated to providing support to retired and widowed men by providing companionship, carpentry skills and getting them involved in community projects. After a newspaper article was published about the donation, it led to additional enquiries about the waste pallets. It was ultimately decided to support three more meaningful causes:

• Benyon Primary School in South Ockendon;
• Wild Crest Club in Corringham for their annual community bonfire; and
• Treetops Learning Community in Grays.