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Branch Bros

 ​A South Lincolnshire builders’ merchant is helping Community First Medic Responders during the Covid-19 pandemic. Branch Bros – which has branches in Deeping St James, Holbeach and Bourne – has provided a range of items including eye protection, suits, gloves and face masks, to support the vital work of LIVES in Lincolnshire. LIVES is a charity that provides sector leading training and equipment for their army of volunteers, who deliver vital care across Lincolnshire to those in the first critical moments of a 999-medical emergency, before handing over to the ambulance service.

Tarmac

An asphalt supervisor at Tarmac’s Mountsorrel Quarry, Leicestershire, answered a personal plea from his NHS frontline wife by donating personal protective equipment to Glenfield Hospital where she works as a deputy sister. The kit sent to the hospital, where his wife has been moved to work on a respiratory ward, included FFP3 face masks, gloves and visors. The donation made by the team at Mountsorrel is part of a wider employee-led campaign at Tarmac, which has seen sites donate personal protective equipment to NHS and social care workers up and down the country.

Cheetham Hill Construction Ltd

The Bury-based civil engineering contractor Cheetham Hill Construction has donated their surplus face masks from their site at Broadway Green to help with the efforts made by Saddleworth Roundtable to source donations of personal protective equipment to those places in need in the local area. The masks were delivered to Royal Oldham Hospital. ​

Kier Highways

As well as successfully started working on a Birmingham Highways Ltd contract to ensure the UK's transport sector continues to function throughout the pandemic, Kier Highways also donated 40,000 disposable gloves to Birmingham City Council to provide care teams across the city with vital PPE.

Barhale

Barhale's Scotland division donated spare personal protective equipment (PPE) including face masks to the City of Edinburgh Council. This enables the Council's operatives to stay safe whilst they carrying essential repairs in vulnerable tenants’ homes

NDA

Dounreay site in the north of Scotland has joined in with the coordinated effort across the NDA group by placing all resources, not considered essential to the safety and security of the site, at the disposal of Highland Council and NHS Highland. Staff at the site, near Thurso in Caithness, that have required skills and experience are also being made available to work on projects which are helping the region’s response to the Covid-19 outbreak. A £30,000 donation has been made to the North Highland Initiative to support community initiatives to support vulnerable individuals, and a donation has been made to Wick Food Bank for purchase of freezers. All the site’s PPE stocks, except that which is essential to the continued safety and security of the site, have been made available to the NHS and a member of the team from the site is working with NHS Highland to support patient assessment centre at Caithness General Hospital.

Knights Brown

Civils contractors Knights Brown donated 10 pairs of safety glasses and 20 FFP2 face masks to Wiltshire Health and Care, Salisbury, as well as 70 pairs of safety glasses to Southampton and Salisbury hospitals. FFP3 masks and gloves were donated to a local doctor who contacted one of the company's customers to ask if Knights Brown had masks on one of its sites which was paused. These were delivered to the doctor’s home address by the furloughed site manager.

Tideway

Tideway is a member of Business in the Community and joined BITC’s National Business Response Network, which links its member businesses with community organisations/charities needing help during the crisis. While support through these channels is being developed, one of Tideway’s main works contractors was able to give direct help to a local hospital in desperate need of protective equipment. Ferrovial and Laing O’Rourke, the joint venture responsible for the Central section of the project, donated 800 masks and 250 disposable boiler suits to the NHS for use at St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington.
 The NHS approached Laing O’Rourke over the Easter weekend with a plea to donate whatever suitable PPE stocks they could. With a reduced work force currently operating at Kirtling Street and Heathwall Pumping Station as construction works are temporarily reduced, those on-hand were tasked with preparing the equipment to be collected the following morning.

ADT Workplace

ADT Workplace Ltd teamed up with ADT Energy Ltd to supply North Manchester General Hospital with a delivery of much needed face masks, in the hope they help provide vital protection for our frontline key workers. Our NHS heroes are working around the clock to provide outstanding care for our nation during this difficult time and this is just a small token of ADT's huge appreciation. As the news headlines suggest, there is a shortage of PPE for all key workers, so please donate what you can to protect those putting their health on the line for us during this very difficult time.

Baxi Heating

Design engineers at Baxi Heating have switched high technology 3D printers from making prototype boiler components to frames for protective face masks in the COVID-19 pandemic. The boiler manufacturer’s Preston site is pulling out the stops to use the technology to print frames for full-face visors for NHS workers.
Alan Peel, Product Design Team Leader at Baxi Heating, is leading the project, despite currently self-isolating and working from home – where he is programming the 3D printers remotely. Baxi Heating has been rescheduling its manufacturing programme to meet the demand for electric water heaters in healthcare settings, including a number of Nightingale hospitals and recovery centres nationwide. The manufacturer is also carrying out free repairs for NHS workers with Baxi boilers.

The Bristan Group

The Bristan Group has donated much-needed PPE to healthcare professionals and other key worker staff in the West Midlands.
The group, which comprises of taps and shower manufacturer Bristan, and Heritage Bathrooms, has donated items to Birmingham City Council to answer their call for PPE equipment. A further donation has also been made to Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust. In total around 3,000 items have been provided to the community.

Protective Film Solutions

Suppliers of protective glass window films, Protective Film Solutions, has donated more than 5,500 pieces of personal protective equipment (PPE) to hospitals, care homes and other medical facilities across the country, to prevent the spread of COVID-19. In normal times, the company distributes protective glass films for office spaces and retailers, as well as anti-fog film for freezers. At the start of lockdown, Protective Film Solutions acted quickly to convert its manufacturing facility, and by early April were producing and distributing vital protective visors for key workers free of charge. Recipients of the visors include the coronavirus wards of Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Buckinghamshire and Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Kings Lynn, as well as Heydeys Care and Support (Cumbria), 360HC Home Care (Wakefield) and Benllech Dental Surgery (Anglesey). The films usually used for protecting freezers and windows have been repurposed to create face shields which cover the eyes, nose and mouth. The visors have a sturdy plastic headband to keep the visor in place, and an elasticated back to ensure a tight fight. Fabric masks can then be worn underneath.

Tolent

One of the North East’s biggest construction companies, Tolent, has donated much-needed FFP3 face masks to James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough. The donation of 4 boxes of the masks, normally used to protect from dust, came after workers from the Gateshead firm carried out critical maintenance at the hospital.

Magnox

As part of its ongoing commitment to support communities during the coronavirus pandemic, Magnox has now donated more than 130,000 items of lifesaving personal protective equipment (PPE). The PPE has gone to those working on the front line, to support priorities established by the network of local resilience forums across the country. The 14 Magnox sites across the UK have been keen to do all that they can to support doctors, nurses and care workers to respond safely. The donated items include disposable respirators, suits and gloves to provide crucial protection and come from both Magnox and our contractors and suppliers. All are in short supply as global stocks of PPE dwindle amid the pandemic. All the PPE can be spared without impacting on nuclear safety or the sites' emergency preparedness. It would ordinarily be used to support the delivery of work and projects on the Magnox sites, however much of this work has been temporarily paused while the country focuses on responding to the pandemic.

Stepnell

NHS staff at Derbyshire’s Langwith Medical Centre have been gifted a selection of treats and hygiene products from construction giant Stepnell, to help lift spirits during the covid-19 crisis. The company’s East Midlands office showed its support and appreciation for the NHS by delivering a selection of cleaning products, disposable gloves, biscuits, Easter eggs, tea and coffee to say thanks to the key workers for their efforts on the coronavirus frontline. Stepnell completed construction of the new, state-of-the-art medical centre in 2019, providing patients with access to modern facilities and a wider range of services.

Carey Group

In response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic The Carey Group is proud to support the NHS by donating Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to the Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. Jason Carey, Joint Interim CEO, said: "We are pleased to be able to play our part and support the NHS and the heroes who are on the front line in the battle with COVID-19. Our PPE donation consisted of over 1,000 masks, goggles, gloves and face shields and was delivered earlier today to St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington, North West London. We will be further helping with the donation of fresh vegetables, fruit and bread over the next 3-4 weeks."

Aggregate Industries

Aggregate Industries' cement team at Cauldon in Staffordshire responded to a call from local medical practices, and has donated FFP3 masks, nitrile gloves, and hand sanitizer to the NHS.

Arcadis

Arcadis has coordinated an industry-wide campaign to collate a million items of PPE for NHS staff urgently needed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Initially tasked by NHS London with finding 250,000 PPE items over four days, Arcadis collaborated with over 40 organisations across industry including Network Rail, CBRE, Kelly’s, Laing O’Rourke and Mace who all donated substantial volumes of equipment. Together, the organisations quadrupled NHS London’s request, locating over a million items ready for collection or drop off including 150,000 gowns/coveralls, 650,000 masks and 420,000 gloves. A large amount of the PPE went to North London hospitals.

Erith Contractors

Erith were able to respond to an urgent plea from Darent Valley Hospital in Dartford to support their ongoing fight against coronavirus.  Darent Valley’s Wellbeing Team, based at the hospital just 6 miles from our Erith head office, requested donations of pens with styluses to enable nurses and doctors to be able to use touch screen computers while wearing protective gloves. Erith have sent their entire stock of over 150 branded stylus pens to the team for distribution to the nurses and doctors in order to support their local hospital with this specific request. Erith are proud to have been able to provide support to NHS hospitals and the essential retail sector during these unprecedented times. To date works have included asbestos removal to various hospital wards across the country to enable ward upgrades and conversions to ITU wards, increasing capacity for treating patients with coronavirus symptoms.  

Scott Direct /Seahawk

Scott Direct is a national distributor of workwear and safety-related products, part of the family-owned Scott Group. The business has been uniquely equipped to respond quickly and effectively to the Covid19 pandemic both through the combination of its national distribution centre in Grangemouth and its recently refurbished, Fife-based protective workwear manufacturing sister company, Seahawk Apparel. Seahawk is generally concerned with the manufacture of specialist protective workwear and PPE for the likes of the oil and gas, petrochemical and construction sectors. Since the outbreak of Covid-19, the business has adapted its operations to manufacture personal protective equipment for NHS staff.
With an experienced in house team of 25 including designers, pattern cutters and sewing machinists Seahawk was quick to identify its potential to manufacture essential, frontline protective garments. With support from Scott Group’s Health and Safety team, their priority was to implement a range of protective measures, including social distancing to ensure the wellbeing of their employees and enable manufacturing to continue.  The team were proud to play their part as essential workers with a role in the national response to Covid19.

Mitchellson

Mitchellson, a family-run Groundworks and Concrete Frame Specialist Contractor, donated much-needed personal protective equipment to NHS staff in support of the fight against Covid-19. The company provided FFP3 masks, maximask half-masks with filters, and safety goggles to Hillingdon Hospital and Northwick Park Hospital in Harrow.

Travis Perkins

Businesses across the Travis Perkins plc group have pulled together to support the national effort during the COVID-19 pandemic. Travis Perkins, Benchmarx, BSS, CCF, Keyline, Toolstation, Wickes and Tile Giant, as well as the Group’s Plumbing & Heating businesses City Plumbing / PTS and the Underfloor Heating Store, have all played their part in supporting the NHS and other care professionals on the front line. The Group has pooled stock to provide extensive donations of PPE to local NHS trusts across the country and provided vital construction equipment and materials to critical infrastructure, such as the NHS Nightingale hospitals to help build capacity in the health service at this challenging time.

Marshalls

​Keen to continue to help keep frontline care staff and residents safe during the COVID-19 pandemic, Marshalls has sponsored more PPE for care workers. 1,000 custom-made face shields have been delivered to staff at Calderdale Council, who are now distributing them to be used by social care workers across the district. The shields have been made by Thomas Dudley Limited on a not for profit basis, as part of their support for the NHS and key workers. This builds on Marshalls previous donation of some of their own PPE to Calderdale Royal Hospital to support the COVID-19 response, as well as donating 100 tonnes of screed for the Manchester Nightingale Hospital. 

FM Conway

As part of FM Conway’s effort to help our care homes and health care workers get the protection they need to fight against COVID-19, the company have donated much needed visors and sanitisers to a number of our local care homes in the South East. At the time of writing FM Conway has donated 870 visors and 123 hand sanitizer products to those care homes most in need. 

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Cantillon/DE Group

Demolition services provider Cantillon and contractor DE Group have launched the Contractors Appeal, in order to reach out to their competitors, peers and partners for donations of masks, overalls, glasses and gloves.
To date equipment donated is estimated to exceed 100,000 items of varying PPE, which has been delivered directly to five ITU Units, as well as supplying direct requests from funeral directors to hospices, medical practices to care homes. Building on this work, a collaborative SHIELD has been founded, which is 3D printing visors and sewing scrubs, entirely funded by donations and staffed by volunteers. More information on SHIELD can be found at www.shieldproject.org . The distribution and collection of PPE is through NEAD www.thenead.co.uk database. SHIELD has agreed the logistical support of DHL and Parcel Force which allows distribution from its hub in London to anywhere in the UK for free or minimal cost.

Colas

The Warrington depot of the UK infrastructure contractor Colas donated personal protective equipment for local frontline care workers. The donation was made in line with the firm’s ongoing action of providing additional personal protection equipment for risk-assessed activities to ensure the country’s roads and railways remain safe for key workers to travel.

QTS Group

National rail infrastructure maintenance firm, QTS Group, has pledged further support during the COVID-19 crisis by donating protective eyewear to NHS frontline workers. In partnership with Network Rail Scotland’s Works Delivery team, QTS has donated 40 pairs of Bolle safety glasses, plus additional boxes of safety goggles, to the Adult Theatre team at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow. In addition, QTS has joined 3D Crowd, a group of almost 5,000 volunteers around the UK who are using 3D printers to supply face shields for NHS staff. 

LLW Repository Ltd

LLW Repository Ltd (LLWR) has made a second major donation of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to support the NHS’s battle against COVID-19 in Cumbria.Following an initial donation of 560 all-in-one protective suits to LLWR’s local North West Ambulance Service Station in Egremont last week, the company has delivered an even larger consignment to the Cumbria Local Resilience Forum at Lillyhall. A further 733 protective suits, 1,800 pairs of gloves and 89 face masks and respirators were handed over at the Forum’s Distribution Centre. Gary Cunningham, LLWR’s Head of Operations, thanked members of the company’s workforce who turned out at the Repository Site to support this effort, adding: “The suits we donated to NW Ambulance Service last week were operational stock. “But this latest donation required us to think very carefully about how much more PPE we could provide, while retaining enough to deal with any emergency that might arise at LLWR. The team had to comb the site, checking every building and storage area to confirm our PPE inventory was correct before separating out the majority of it ready for donation.”

Mid-Sussex Timber (MST)

A family-run timber and building materials merchant in Sussex has donated much-needed personal protective equipment to NHS staff. Mid-Sussex Timber (MST), which celebrated its 90th anniversary of trading last year, has provided a range of items, including goggles, safety glasses and face masks, in a bid to tackle the shortages faced in the healthcare sector.

Bradfords Building Supplies

Bradfords Building Supplies has donated vital personal protective equipment (PPE) to healthcare professionals across the South West. The company has provided equipment including eye protection and face masks in a bid to tackle the shortages faced in the healthcare sector.
Bradfords Building Supplies, which celebrates its 250th anniversary this year, orchestrated a response from the 45 stores across its network, in line with a national appeal from Construction Leadership Council member, the Builders Merchants Federation (BMF).

Galliard Homes

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Galliard Homes, London's largest privately owned developer have been actively donating PPE to NHS staff and key workers. They have been working with the Galliard team to donate PPE to charities and organisations that have a close association with the company’s ethos and community.
 PPE stocks have so far been sent to:
 

• Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust - a specialist orthopaedic hospital located in Greater London
• Haven House Children’s Hospice based in Woodford Green
• Southwark Council (Central collection for distribution in Southwark)
• STOLL Foundation Charity - Provider of supported housing to vulnerable veterans based
• Chess Homeless Charity based in Chelmsford

 

MP Moran Builders & Plumbers Merchants

Bart Murphy has taken huge strides forward to get much-needed PPE equipment out to healthcare professionals. Four weeks after launching his appeal, the Operations Director of London-based MP Moran Builders and Plumbers Merchants has overseen the donation of almost 18,000 items of PPE to 12 hospitals, trusts and charities. A GoFundMe page ‘Support our NHS Heroes’ has been set up by Bart to continue to raise money to purchase even more PPE for the NHS.

CS jv

​Costain Skanska Joint Venture (CSjv) continue to deliver the Enabling Works South contract on behalf of High Speed 2 Ltd. Staff recently donated supplies of PPE to the NHS. A range of items including masks, protective overalls, overshoes and goggles were all delivered to the nearby University College London Hospital.

QIH

​QIH (Quinn Building Products and Quinn Packaging) has donated its stocks of vital PPE to health care workers on the front line. More than one thousand units of PPE equipment, including masks, Tyvek suits, nitrile gloves and safety glasses have been provided to Cavan General Hospital, South West Acute Hospital in Enniskillen and to a number of local community care providers.  QIH has also been able to source a consignment of surgical masks from its suppliers to donate to the healthcare sector.

Mark Vitow Ltd

A distributor of plumbing and allied products has stepped in to donate hundreds of items of PPE stocks to support healthcare professionals.
Mark Vitow Ltd has delivered more than 500 face masks to residential and nursing homes and care providers across the UK. The company made the donation through the online initiative #FindTheMasks, which is led by a global team of volunteers – supported by sponsors including Google – who are working to build a comprehensive database of PPE needs during the COVID-19 pandemic. Mark Vitow has also provided masks to Essex and Herts Air Ambulance for their crew. Mark Vitow Ltd recently celebrated its 30th Anniversary and has grown into one of the leading distributors of plumbing, heating and bathroom supplies. Based in Hertfordshire, the family-run business supplies plumbing and heating merchants across the UK.

Polypipe Building Products

Polypipe Building Products, the market leading manufacturer of above and below ground drainage solutions, has been doing everything it can to help communities during the COVID-19 Pandemic. As well as fulfilling essential orders, Polypipe donated half a tonne of polypropylene to students at Bradfield Technology College who have used the material to manufacture more than 12,000 visors for health care workers so far. Another 500 kilograms of polypropylene was donated to the Silverstone Technology Cluster (STC), in Northamptonshire, to manufacture crucial supplies of equipment for frontline healthcare workers across Northamptonshire. The Silverstone site was crafting supplies that were then donated to care homes, hospitals and community services in Northamptonshire and medical staff from the armed forces. Working with their supply chain partners Polypipe also organised protective equipment donations and collections from other local businesses which included thousands of plastic aprons for the Doncaster South primary care network which covers 43 practices across Doncaster.