We have recently donated timber posts to two local community groups within South Tyneside, near to our A183 scheme! Supporting the communities in which we work as we perform our jobs is an important part of our business - giving back and showing our gratitude to those surrounding us reaffirms our commitment to creating a positive impact wherever our business takes us!
50 posts were donated to a local beekeeper to form hives with. The owner does a huge amount in the local community, running free classes for both children and adults alike on beekeeping (participants can even don beekeeping suits to get a real feel for the work). We hope that, with our donation, these free classes - as well as the importance of beekeeping - can keep going!
The South Tyneside District Scouts were the second group to get a donation, receiving 75 posts. Supporting the local scouts community with resources to help both young people and adults in their activities was a great cause for us to support, benefiting a wide range of people in addition to upholding our community commitments!
Both donations came with the added support of two of our employees to aid in the banding, loading and unloading, in addition to machinery to support these processes including an 8t machine and a tipper!
You may be asking yourself ‘why posts?’. The timber posts we donated were sourced directly from our A183 site in South Tyneside, taken from the perimeter fencing and repurposed for the above to continue serving the local community after their initial use had come to an end! Gifting the posts to local groups in need not only builds and maintains relationships with the local community, but helps to reduce landfill emissions. One tonne of rotting wood in landfill produces a quantity of methane which is as harmful as 600kg of CO2, emphasising how important it is to reuse as much as we can!
The groups we have donated to no longer need to buy from new, reducing costs for them and wasting far less energy. Overall, it takes less energy to prepare wood for re-use than it does acquiring from standard forestry sources. After two days of banding, loading, delivery and offloading, we fully expect both groups to make excellent use of the donations! Knowing that this is helping make an environmental difference through reducing the damaging contributions to landfill and its harmful effects makes us feel great, and we hope everyone involved feels this too!