The Lighthouse Construction Industry Charity is the only charity that provides emotional, physical and financial wellbeing support to the construction community and their families. A crucial element of their strategy is to provide a wide range of free and widely available pro-active resources to support the industry.

July is ‘Talk To Us Month’ and the charity to encourage talking about our feelings, which is much easier said than done. Talking can be a way to cope with a problem you’ve been carrying around in your head for a while. Just being listened to can help you feel supported and less alone.

Who can you talk to?

Talking to someone you know can be a great place to start. Lighthouse Charity have various channels of free support you can use, depending on what you’re most comfortable with, including their phone helpline and text service.

If you or someone you know is struggling, reach out for free and confidential support

• Call 0345 605 1956 (UK) 1800 939 122 (ROI)

• Text HARDHAT to 85258 (UK) 50808 (ROI)

You can find out more about this support at https://www.constructionindustryhelpline.com/talk-to-us.html

Work is well underway at our Saxty Way site, in Thirsk, where we are building 47 dwellings with a mix of 2/3-bed semis, as well as four flats and eight bungalows. Already, twelve of the rent-to-buy properties are at second fix, with others at roof structure height.

As we celebrate #Net Zero Week, we are proud of the site’s excellent environmental credentials, with energy-efficiency measures which include all the homes fitted with solar panels and heated via air source pumps.

Working on behalf of Karbon Homes, the site, which started in June 2022, is due to be finished in February 2024, with the first properties expected for completion in the next few months.

It was great to catch up with the Employability Team at Thirteen Group to discuss our plans for future engagement on apprenticeships and work experience.  We are looking forward to developing our partnership alongside the Westdale Road project, in Thornaby. The site, which features 37 plots, is beginning to take shape, with all the foundations and sub-structures in place. 

Thank you to Peter Venis (Employment Engagement Officer), Philip Bentham (Employability Team Manager) and Nusrat Razzaq (Training Officer) for their warm welcome and for sharing some fantastic ideas to encourage and support more people to gain employability skills in the construction sector.

Peter said: “The commitment to social value and proactive approach makes it easy and enjoyable to work with T Manners & Sons. I’m excited to see how this partnership develops, some great ideas for projects to upskill & give experience to members of our community have been seeded”.

Trish Manners, Head of Business Support at T Manners & Sons, added: “It is great to have the opportunity to not just build a quality product for our clients but also to help make a real difference in what we make and the surrounding communities they are built in.”

The past few weeks have seen us celebrate:

We have reached a tremendous milestone hitting 3000 followers on Linkedin. Reaching our 3000^th Linkedin follower today reflects the recognition that we understand the bigger picture required to keep our workflow healthy and maintain a strong reputation by means of modern methods.  The hard work that has been applied in order to build this over recent years has resulted in our following growing steadily and from strength to strength.

Trisha Manners attended the Kings Coronation Garden Party Celebration at Buckingham Palace in recognition for her voluntary contribution, in particular for the Community Peer Mentoring Programme for Durham Police and Crime Commissioner.

T Manners received the NFB Heritage Mark

Robert Manners was awarded the NFBs Special Recognition Award in light of his long serving career within the Construction Industry.

We successfully completed our full ISO and SSIP Audit.

We look forward to updating our pages with more updates and project overviews.

Celebrations and Opportunities

It has been a cracking period for our Specialist Joinery Department. Passing our BM TRADA audit providing continuity of accreditation. Bespoke work completed, fitted with remarks about high quality (we would expect no less) and two of our workshop apprentices receiving Distinctions on completion of their courses! All that hard work paid off. Very much well deserved and Congratulations!

Joinery craftsmanship is an integral part of our commitment to quality and delivery. We are always looking to ensure our talent pipeline is robust. If you have the determination and drive to work in a fast paced progressive environment and be considered as part of our amazing joinery team please send your CV or spec to [email protected] or contact us for more information. We have a specific vacancy for an experienced Bench Joiner and will collate applications for experienced site and those interested in Apprenticeships should an opportunity arise.

Joinery #BespokeJoinery #custombuilt #healthcare #fittedfurniture #vacancy #benchjoiner #sitejoiner #careerinconstruction

C E L E B R A T I N G H & S The company was awarded the NCSG Training Achievement Award 2021 (we have just received the engraved trophy, pictured with our H&S Lead Wayne our Construction Director and Nick Redpath).

Additionally a number of our employees have been chosen by Northern Counties Safety Group to receive a certificate for their commitment and contribution to improving health and safety on site during 2021.

Congratulations Dave, Neil, Mykal and Tony in achieving this recognition and for your efforts in keeping high health & safety standards on T Manners sites.

“The NCSG Training Award recognises the ongoing commitment of T. Manners & Sons Ltd to their workforce. Ensuring that they maintain the highest of Health & Safety standards across all aspects of their work, by having trained and competent staff at all levels.” Regards Nick Redpath DipNEBOSH, DipRSA, CMIOSH, AIEMA, AMICE, Operations Director

We are committed to continue our best practice approach to H&S as an organisation.

Happy New Year! And its certainly back in full swing! We send well wishes to all and hope we can strive forward with positive energy. Following an extremely challenging period given the environmental and industry constraints as well as our own significant leadership changes we have just received confirmation that following our re-accreditation assessment at the end of 2021 we maintain our Silver status. This affirms the culture, processes and people we have in place to succeed as a business and hope to continue to build and strengthen this opportunity we have.

We are committed to the success and legacy of the business, and that of our people and communities we serve and therefore continuous improvement initiatives underpin our business and people strategies to ensure optimum results.

#opportunity #energy #IiP

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It is great to get some good news during these ever challenging times!  As a family business we strive to prioritise employee welfare and as such, despite the extensive business constraints we have faced over the past 2 years, we focused our energies on strategies and initiatives to try and extend support as we could.

We are incredibly humbled that this has been recognised and we have been shortlisted for an award in this national activity within the Construction Industry.

We have also submitted a Lifetime Achievement Award for Robert Manners who has devoted over 40 years service in leading and developing the business to the present day.  Winner to be announced on the night.

Well done to all of our employees whose participation and collaboration on initiatives is a true reflection of how we are growing strength to strength together. 

Subject: Construction Awards of Excellence – Health, Safety or Wellbeing initiative of the year

Congratulations on being shortlisted as a finalist for the Construction Awards of Excellence 2022 – Health, Safety or Wellbeing initiative of the year

The independent panel of judges said it was an extremely difficult decision to shortlist due to the quality and number of entries for the awards. You can view the full list of finalists at: www.builders.org.uk/the-nfb/construction-awards-of-excellence/the-2022-finalists