Kirklees Neighbourhood Housing, a housing association in West Yorkshire, surprised one of its tenants, Molly James, with a hamper to celebrate 100 years of social housing in the UK.
Molly, who is 103 and has lived in social housing for 73 years, is one of 14 centenarian KNH tenants to receive goodies donated by local business. KNH manages 22,000 homes for Kirklees Council under the governance of a board of councillors, tenants and co-opted members.
Batting for gold
Goldcrest’s property charity rounders tournament has raised £1,000 for LandAid.
Cushman & Wakefield – aka the Benchwarmers – took the winning Gold Bat. Runners Savills, Capstone and One Dome battled hard with runs. The charity event took place in South Park, London, SW6.
St. Modwen honours soldier
St. Modwen Homes has helped complete a play area at Staffordshire Regiment Museum, created to honour local fallen soldier Ian Fisher, and to commemorate the role of his squadron 3rd Battalion the Mercian Regiment (STAFFORDS). Warrant Officer Fisher was killed in Afghanistan in 2013.
St. Modwen Homes funded the materials needed to complete the works on the final stages of the three-year project.
The new play area at the museum, named Camp Fisher, is designed to look like a warrior armoured fighting vehicle, and was opened on 28 August by Ian’s family.
Property pair take a dip for chosen charities
Barton Willmore planning director Colin Laverty, and Morris & Spottiswood commercial manager Paul McGuire, have raised more than £5,000 for charity in a marathon swim of Loch Lomond.
Both amateur swimmers, the pair completed the epic 22.6-mile swim in 13 hours. Laverty raised over £2,700 for Accord Hospice, and McGuire raised £2,500 for the Scottish Association for Mental Health.
SHW gets all hands on shore
Twenty-two members of SHW’s London office donned wellies to take part in a regional volunteer day on the River Thames.
The surveyors-turned-conservationists spent the day on Chiswick Eyot, a small tidal island, cleaning up the banks, clearing invasive vegetation and shoring river defences. The event was facilitated by environmental charity Thames21, part of SHW’s corporate social responsibility programme.
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