Poole-based MC Plan & Site Services has sponsored a team of volunteers to help a local community in Nepal rebuild a school destroyed by an earthquake in 2015.
The 10 trade volunteers spent 12 days in the Nepalese town of Nuwakot where they helped to complete the rebuilding of a community school. To improve the learning environment for the local children, the group undertook refurbishments of the classrooms and maintenance of the school grounds and built a toilet block.
Raising nearly £3,000 towards the project, the volunteers included: Helen Cook, Mark Cook and Ben Oxland of MC Plan & Site Services; Alexandra Eaton of AE Marketing Solutions; Chris Cowley of Chris Cowley Interior/Exterior Decorating; Kenny Tucknott of Sunseeker; Penny King of Planning Precision Bournemouth; Adam Ayling of Griffiths and May Carpets and Flooring; plasterer and builder Michael Fraser; and Tim Collier of Lilliput Electrical.
Cowap joins the Big Sleep Out
Rural chartered surveyor and EG columnist Charles Cowap and friends have raised £635 as part of an international initiative to help homeless and displaced people around the world.
The group were among an estimated 50,000 people around the world who spent a night sleeping outside as part of the World’s Big Sleep Out in December. The event set a target of raising enough money to help one million people who have no choice but to sleep outside every night.
The event is run in partnership with the Institute for Global Homelessness, Unicef USA, Malala Fund and Social Bite.
For more details, visit www.bigsleepout.com
Arcadis sows seeds of sustainability in Salford
Arcadis is helping the Royal Horticultural Society create Europe’s largest new public garden in Salford, Greater Manchester.
The design and engineering consultancy has been brought in on the 154-acre project to deliver core sustainability benefits, including rainwater harvesting and sustainable energy sources to heat the glasshouses.
The £30m scheme, which aims to create 140 jobs by 2029, will open to the public in late 2020.
Dates for your diary
Property Race Day
The 2020 Property Race Day will take place on 10 July at Ascot Racecourse in Berkshire. Now in its 14th year, the event has raised more than £2.5m for children’s charities, with beneficiaries including: SOS Children’s Villages, Hope & Homes, LandAid, Starlight, Daktari Bush School and Plan UK. The day will include a champagne reception, seven races, a live and silent auction and a post-racing live band. There is also a free CS2 Property Race Day Train to take guests directly from London Waterloo to Ascot. For more information, go to http://thepropertyraceday.co.uk
PROPS Awards
The 2020 PROPS Awards will take place on 12 May at the London Hilton Park Lane, W1. The awards, which raise money for children’s charity Variety, cover categories including Deal of the Year, Property of the Year, and the Proptech Award. Since the PROPS began in 1992, they have helped raised more than £10.5m for the charity. For more details, go to www.variety.org.uk/events/props-awards-2020
London Landmarks Half Marathon
Industry charity LandAid has 10 places for the 2020 London Landmarks Half Marathon on 29 March. Race to help end youth homelessness while taking in the London sights. Sign up at https://www.landaid.org/events
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