Corporate Volunteering with Balfour Beatty

Balfour Beatty have undertaken some of the recent structural changes around Bradford city centre playing a key role in transforming the city of Bradford by making it easier for people to walk, cycle and use public transport.

They chose Bradford BEES (Bradford Environmental Education Service) to partner with to give back to the local community via their corporate volunteering activity.

“The teams cleared away old storage units and unsightly waste, plastics and rotten wood then, built new storage units and protected them with waterproofing.  The units made would be used to store materials for fencing, tree planting and propagation of plants for environmental projects.  We also made mini beast hotels from recycled wood and logs and additional much needed leaf bins.

Not only was it great for teambuilding and a sense of achievement and wellbeing but, also having made a positive impact at Stoney Ridge as the quote from Shona stated “We so appreciated your help on both these days to get a job done that would have taken us years.”

One of the volunteers described their day with Bradford BEES; “We had a great day at Stoney Ridge woodlands, helping to tidy up and organise the woodlands which were in need of a bit of TLC. It was a great day of team building, and it was fun to learn some new tricks of the trade given that I am usually sat in the office – and we chose a beautiful day to volunteer as the sun was shining all day. It was all in all a very rewarding and insightful day!