After an unprecedented year, and with Christmas just around the corner, housebuilders around the country have been helping to support local charities.
Linden Homes donates new sports equipment to local primary school
Linden Homes has donated £1000 to St Luke’s Primary and Nursery, a school local to their Brunel Street Works development, in thriving Canning Town. The donation will support the school’s PE department, enabling the purchase of new outdoor sports equipment for the 172 pupils.
The donation from Linden Homes will enable St Luke’s to upgrade its goals and nets for its budding young football team and will provide for a range of other outdoor equipment that will benefit all the students.
Brunel Street Works is entering its third phase of exciting development. The new one-, two- and three-bedroom homes will be available in the new year, in advance of which, the latest show home will be opening its doors in December. Not just a housing development, Brunel Street Works also offers onsite retail, workspace, and indoor and outdoor community space.
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Acorn Property Group and Galliard Homes donate to Bath’s Jane Austen Centre
Developers Acorn Property Group and Galliard Homes, who have transformed the historic Hope House on Lansdown Road in Bath into new homes, have pledged support for the city’s Jane Austen Centre, an institution badly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Acorn and Galliard have donated £1,000 to the Jane Austen Centre, as part of the centre’s ongoing fundraising round which has seen hundreds of individuals from Bath, Somerset, and around the world donate. In addition, the developers will donate a further £100 for every home sold at Hope House upon completion between now and the end of March 2021. The funds will be used to support the centre’s reopening following the easing of lockdown restrictions.
Located a short walk from Bath’s City Centre, Hope House features a magnificent Grade II listed Georgian mansion which has been transformed into an exclusive collection of apartments along with a range of carefully created new build apartments and townhouses set in six acres of beautiful parkland. Following an extensive restoration working with heritage specialists over three years, Hope House is now complete with residents enjoying their new homes and the latest phase of properties released for sale. The development is over 75% sold overall with residents loving the balance of countryside and city life.
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Anwyl Homes pledges to Hope House Children’s Hospices
As part of the Xmas Party Heroes campaign - an initiative to donate unused company funds set aside for festivities - Anwyl Homes has pledged £3,000 to a children’s hospice.
The funds will assist Hope House Children’s Hospices to continue their vital work in caring for children and their families in Shropshire, Cheshire, Mid and North Wales with life-threatening conditions.
With the usual Christmas parties cancelled this year due to the Covid-19 pandemic, a national charity campaign is encouraging companies to donate the money they would normally spend on their festive celebrations to a good cause instead.
Catrin Dowdeswell, area fundraiser for Hope House Children's Hospices, said: “The current pandemic has had a significant impact on Hope House & Ty Gobaith Children’s Hospices. Our donations disappeared overnight, our shops closed and our events were cancelled. We currently face a lost income figure of £1.25 million as a result.
“We are looking to secure financial support before Christmas to ensure that the families we care for continue to receive the bespoke care they deserve. Only if our community comes together will we weather this storm and be there for every family who needs us. We could not be more thrilled to have Anwyl Homes as one of our founding champions.”
Anwyl has donated a total of £7,000 to five charities as part of the Xmas Party Heroes campaign.
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Avanton volunteer with Trees for Cities
London developer Avanton have volunteered with charity Trees For Cities to plant 300 trees along Agnes Street in East London.
The young trees, which are a variety of native and non-native species will help to tackle air pollution from nearby roads and sequester CO2 emissions. The trees also add colour throughout the seasons, provide habitats and food sources for local urban wildlife and create shade throughout the summer months.
The 300 trees planted by the Avanton team in Mile End are the bulk of trees that will make up a hedgerow of 500 whips along Agnes Street. Alongside the young trees, Trees For Cities have planted 20 large trees, areas of native hedgerow and woodland habitat.
Avanton will be offsetting their carbon footprint in the future and are incorporating green outdoor spaces at their Coda site in Battersea and pipeline projects on Old Kent Road.
Cambridgeshire housebuilder raises £100,000 for charity
Giving The Proclaimers a run for their money by walking over 570 miles, B&DWC - Barratt Developments' divisions across the UK raised £100,000 for The Outward Bound Trust and Macmillan Cancer Support
A team of colleagues from Peterborough-based homebuilder Barratt and David Wilson Homes joined forces with divisions across the country to take part in the second annual Big Barratt Hike, put together by Barratt Developments PLC to raise money for The Outward Bound Trust and Macmillan Cancer Support.
The divisions’ fundraising efforts raised £25,000. This amount, coupled with a company-wide donation of £25,000, and Barratt PLC’s promise to match the amount raised, means that each charity will receive £50,000.
Barratt Homes supports local children’s charity
Leading housebuilder Barratt Homes West Midlands has donated £1,000 to a local children’s charity as part of its Community Fund scheme.
Assisted Reading for Children (ARCh) is an Oxfordshire based charity that recruits and provides training and support to reading helpers that offer one to one personalised reading support to children aged six to 11. With a growing network of volunteers, ARCh has reading volunteers supporting around 900 children every week in over 120 primary schools across the county, but more are needed.
The charity is based in Bicester, close to Barratt Homes’ development on Middleton Stoney Road, The Chimes.
Adrian Evans, managing director of Barratt Homes West Midlands, says: “ARCh is an excellent example of a local organisation going the extra mile to support families and promote social and educational equality amongst children in the local community.”
Bellway makes festive donation to food banks
As part of its ongoing commitment to charitable giving and supporting the communities in which it develops, housebuilder Bellway has made a series of donations to Trussell Trust food banks across the North West.
After a difficult year and with the festive holiday fast approaching, four Trussell Trust food banks across the region have shared a donation of £600 that will be used to help local individuals and families most in need in the coming weeks.
Bellway has also donated to independent food banks, and has recently make a significant donation of more than £1,000 of food items to a new Liverpool food bank known as the Festive Food Bank which has been set up by Andrew Murphy from Litherland and covers areas including Bootle, Maghull, Fazakerley, Old Swan, Litherland, Aintree and Kirkby.