Catrin Jones

Assistant Editor

Baxi Heating smashes its fundraising target for Alzheimer’s Society

Colleagues at Baxi Heating, in both the UK and Ireland, baked, raffled, ran, cycled, dressed up, washed cars, held golf days and even held a circus to raise over £60,000 for Alzheimer’s Society.  They raised a total of £63,961.49, including 8,342.81 Euros for Alzheimer’s Ireland. In addition to raising money …

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PipeSnug goes football crazy

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PipeSnug, the innovative product that gives a quicker, smarter finish around pipework, recently sponsored an exciting EFL Championship match between Luton Town Football Club and Wigan Athletic. Chris Burdett, a co-founder of PipeSnug (along with fellow director Alex Lever) is a huge Hatters fan and was on the books at …

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BMF calls on new Government to start the real work

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The Builders Merchants Federation (BMF) is calling for swift action from the new Conservative Government to transform the construction industry. Offering his congratulations to Boris Johnson and the Conservative Party, BMF CEO John Newcomb, called on Conservative leaders to set the conditions for a more productive, greener sector, which in …

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Stelrad awarded ServiceMark Accreditation by The Institute of Customer Service

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Stelrad has recently successfully achieved the ServiceMark Accreditation from the Institute of Customer Service. Stelrad far exceeded the required scores in both the internal and external surveys relating to the accreditation and was then ready to move forward to the next stage in the ServiceMark accreditation. The final stage of …

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Polypipe’s ‘smart roof’ system bears fruit at Green Apple Awards

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Polypipe has won a Green Apple Environment Award in the annual international campaign by the Green Organisation to recognise, reward and promote environmental best practice. In the awards, Polypipe was recognised as a Green Champion for Environmental Best Practice. The award is for a group research project into ‘smart roofs’ …

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Russell Roof Tiles supporting animal rescue charities

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Roof tile manufacturer, Russell Roof Tiles is generously supporting the work of two animal rescue charities local to its sites this festive season – Hillfield Animal Home and Dumfries & Galloway Canine Rescue. Employing 160 people at its three sites in Burton and Lochmaben, the roof tile manufacturer has donated …

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Quarter of a million raised at Lighthouse Construction Industry’s Charity lunch

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Once again it was a capacity crowd at the Westminster Park Plaza Hotel in London on Friday 6th December on what turned out to be a record-breaking event for the Charity. A monumental quarter of a million pounds was raised through table sales, live and silent auctions, heads and tails, …

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Anderton step up to homeless challenge

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Anderton Concrete, part of Ibstock plc, pledged its support to help combat the homelessness crisis by walking 10km all in support of the charity, Shelter. The walk, which took place on Wednesday the 11th of December, saw nine members of the Anderton Concrete team walk throughout Manchester city centre, with …

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Scruffs win big at the 2019 On The Tools Awards

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Scruffs has scooped two top accolades at the 2019 On The Tools Awards for Workwear and Boot brand of the Year, as voted for by UK tradespeople. The Scruffs team was delighted to be amongst the finalists which were announced for the 2019 On The Tools Awards at a ceremony …

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Tarmac Cement celebrates success at Construction Marketing Awards

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Tarmac Cement is celebrating after scooping the Best Branding and Positioning award at this year’s Construction Marketing Awards. The annual awards, endorsed by the Chartered Institute of Marketing, showcases the construction industry’s creativity and innovation in marketing. Tarmac Cement beat off competition from five other shortlisted entries to take home …

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