Galliford Try is a national housebuilding and construction company delivering industry leading performance in the construction of a sustainable future.
Communities
Our engagement with communities is based on four key principles:
- Contributing to the community through our core activities such as providing schools, healthcare facilities, affordable housing and transport infrastructure.
- Engaging with the communities and individuals in the areas in which we operate.
- Delivering wider community benefits such as local employment.
- Charitable investment.
We ensure that our operations are integrated into the local community as effectively as possible. Practically, this means:
- Promoting safety on building sites through local campaigns, particularly targeted at schools.
- Keeping local residents and organisations informed about construction plans and progress.
- Involvement in education programmes and school visits.
- Participating in community work.
- Supporting local charities and events in which our employees are involved.
Galliford Try is an Associate Member of the Considerate Constructors Scheme, demonstrating our commitment to improving the image of the industry. Eight of the Group’s projects have been awarded national awards under the scheme during the year.
Supporting this scheme reflects how Galliford Try makes every effort to provide a positive representation of the construction industry by projecting an image of competent management, efficiency, awareness of local environmental issues and neighbourliness as outlined by the scheme’s Site and Company Codes of Considerate Practice.
A number of our projects have invited Ivor Goodsite, the industry mascot for the Considerate Constructors Scheme, to site to show to young children, who live or go to school around our sites, how to be safe around construction sites as well as learning about what takes place on them. Our site managers also engage in visits to schools near our developments, where we talk about site safety and our community involvement extends to workshops and consultations with the local community to ensure that their views are taken on board in our projects.
