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Award recognition for supporting military veterans into new careers
Mears Group has achieved the Career Transition Partnership (CTP) Endorser Award for our commitment to helping veterans find stable and fulfilling careers at Mears.
Improving Lives
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Mears Exeter join forces to create new older person's community space
Residents at Southlands older persons complex in Exeter are able to get together in any weather, following the creation of a new community building in their garden.
Social Value
Improving Lives
Volunteer project transforms Basingstoke community Scout Hut
A project which set out to renovating a century-old scout hut has completely transformed the building and grounds for future generations.
Careers
Improving Lives
Newmarket recruitment event supports Armed Forces
Mears Group combined its commitment to the Armed Forces with a recent trip to Newmarket Racecourse, ‘the home of flat racing’.
Improving Lives
Social Value
Housing maintenance team supports leading Northeast food charity
Mears Group volunteers recently got together to support a charity initiative delivering surplus food to people on low incomes.
Healthy Planet
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Social Value
Foundation
Urban community garden takes off in Ilford
Residents on an Ilford housing estate are benefiting from a new urban garden thanks to a group of green-fingered volunteers.
Improving Lives
Social Value
Mears volunteers support Spennymoor Community Meals programme
Volunteers from the Sedgefield branch of Mears Group joined forces with a local charity to help deliver hot meals to vulnerable people in the community.
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Gloucestershire counselling charity benefits from Mears makeover
Volunteers from the Mears Customer and Marketing team got together to spruce up the paintwork and do a little DIY for a small Gloucestershire charity.
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Social Value
Council partnership scores new goalposts for Thurrock park
Young people in South Ockendon, Thurrock, have benefited from the installation of new goal posts at their local park, following a collaboration between Mears Group, Thurrock and builders’ merchant, Huws Gray.
Improving Lives
Mears Foundation helps transform Thurrock community garden
Mears Foundation helps transform Thurrock community garden
Improving Lives
Jo Fry, HR Director, launches the Fairness and Inclusion Strategy 2022–2025
As part of National Inclusion week Jo Fry, our Director of HR, launches our Fairness and Inclusion Strategy 2022–2025.
Good Governance
Healthy Planet
Improving Lives
Mears UK Responsible Business Charter
Mears wants to be the best possible partner for the Government, local councils, for people who live or work in any of our branches and communities we operate in. Following wide consultation, we have developed our responsible business recommendations based on the feedback from our partners and stakeholders across the UK.
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Healthy Planet
Improving Lives
Mears Scottish Responsible Business Charter
Mears wants to be the best possible partner for the Scottish Government, local councils, for people who live or work in any of our branches and communities we operate in. Following wide consultation, we have developed our responsible business recommendations based on the feedback from our partners and stakeholders across Scotland.
Improving Lives
Smartphone initiative for Rotherham’s asylum seekers
Mears Foundation is partnering with Rotherham-based engineering company, AESSEAL to help asylum seekers temporarily housed in the town to communicate with their families and support groups.
Improving Lives
Cambridge charity benefits from cycle donations
A Cambridge charity has benefited from a delivery of abandoned bicycles thanks to a partnership between University of Cambridge, and Mears, also known as Portal.
Improving Lives
Diversity and Inclusion Spotlight - Merline St Rose
Lambeth General Manager, Merline St Rose, manages the repairs and maintenance works to approximately 27,000 Lambeth properties and gives us some insight into her experience:
Improving Lives
Our Commitment to Apprentices: Meet Dylan
At Mears, we see apprenticeships as a vital part of our approach to recruit, develop and retain talent and provide school leavers and older employees the chance to earn while they learn. One success story is of our Apprentice Electrician Dylan Andrew.
Improving Lives
Creating chances through working with our supply chain partners: Commercial Group
Mears partners with the Commercial Foundation on their #NoLimits programme for 16 to 25 year olds in Gloucestershire.
Improving Lives
Employment and skills: Our commitment to Apprenticeships
At Mears, we see apprenticeships as a vital part of our approach to recruiting, developing and retaining talent and providing school leavers and older employees the opportunity to earn while they learn.
Improving Lives
Meet the Mentor
Paddy Grace describes his time as a Mentor working with Solutions 4 The Planet.
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Social Value: Leading by Example - Anne Kinghorn
Partnership Manager, Anne Kinghorn shares her thoughts on social value and her experience leading on the projects that make a difference to the asylum community.
Improving Lives
Social Value: Leading by Example – Andrew Chambers
General Manager Andrew Chambers shares his thoughts on social value and his experience leading on the projects that make a difference to his community in Rotherham
Improving Lives
Leeds: Helping Feed the Community During COVID-19
Mears in Leeds recently came to the aid of Leeds South and East Foodbank and donated a much-needed van to help deliver food to the people who desperately need it the most.
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Mears Foundation: Grants Awarded
We’re delighted to announce that following the September Grant Application process, the Mears Foundation have been able to support charities and good causes by awarding grants totalling an astonishing £50,000.
Improving Lives
Mears and Thurrock Council bring new life to the Falconwood
Falconwood in Thurrock had sadly become a prime spot for fly tipping and vandalism, meaning that this was not a space the community could use in safety.
Improving Lives
Hebburn Helps Community Food Bank & Crisis Response Team Shop Renovation Project.
Hebburn Helps was founded in 2015 and they are a voluntary community organisation that was set up to help local families who are finding it hard and struggling to make ends meet.
Improving Lives
DWP Swap Milton Keynes: employability
Attracting new talent to our sector remains a challenge. It is key we connect with partners to support hard to reach groups, in opportunities to gain employment for roles in our business. This supports our commitment to social responsibility, in addition to meeting our recruitment challenges.
Improving Lives
Garden makeover for Peterborough girl with cerebral palsy
Cross Keys Homes (CKH), Mears and Pro Edge Construction have provided their very own ‘Love Your Garden’ style makeover to help a young girl make use of her garden.
Improving Lives
Murals For Mental Health
In July 2021 a group of our IA services users attended local arts and concerts venue, SWG3, to participate in a community spray paint project where they were assisted by local artists to design images on paper and then were taught how to bring these images alive through spray paint on a large scale.
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Career Workshops: Worktree Milton Keynes
Worktree Milton Keynes are all about inspiring local young people to reach their career potential. A career journey is very often influenced by the working people that a young person comes into contact with. Worktree’s unique expertise has enabled students to have thousands of live, real-world conversations with a wide range of working professionals.