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.
Children from Queen Boudica Primary School in Colchester played Bob the Builder as they helped out on the site of Linden Homes' Northfields development on Turner Road.
Approximately 40 children aged 5-7 spent the day at Northfields as part of a school project on building and construction. They decorated the hoardings at the site with their own art and looked around the finished three-bedroom showhome before a hands-on demonstration of how to lay bricks.
This latest school visit followed Linden Homes’ efforts to help raise £500 for North Primary School through a charity Christmas card competition.
Roseanne Bullen, Sales and Marketing Manager for Linden Homes, commented: “It is a joy to welcome the children on-site at Northfields, which is at the heart of the local community. The children have always been curious about the new homes being built right next to their school; through these kinds of hands-on and interactive initiatives we hope to encourage that enquiring nature and inspire the children to learn more about science and technology. These children may well find themselves living at Northfields some time in the future.”
