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We are recruiting for a Maintenance Decorator to join our Small Works and Fire Doors Division. The applicant needs to drive, be able to work independently and preferably to have experience. The work is likely to involve undertaking small repair decoration projects, following fire door installations and small works maintenance. A very competitive salary is offered and the successful applicant will be provided with their own van. Please send your CV to [email protected] by Friday, 18th August.

We have a number of apprentices working on our Westdale Road site, in central Thornaby, including Nathan, who works for Buildroute as a bricklayer and lives within the local catchment to the development.

Nathan is currently studying towards his Level 1 bricklaying apprenticeship at East Durham College.  Wayne Howmans, Site Manager at Westdale Road, said: “Nathan is progressing well in his first year as an apprentice. He is working well with the bricklaying squad he has been placed with, and shows willingness to learn and care for the work he carries out.  The squad he is with still have employed an apprentice that they trained previously, now out of his time he has become a full-time member of the team.”

If anyone currently lives in a local Thirteen Group property and is interested in an apprenticeship, please contact us on [email protected].

We are proud to be working on a new-build project at Ramsey Crescent, on behalf of Believe Housing, comprising ten bungalows for affordable rent. As part of our commitment to support the local community, we were delighted to donate £100 of provisions to Angel Trust, in Bishop Auckland.  Mykal, the site manager at Ramsey Crescent, delivered the donation and saw first-hand the sterling work the Angel Trust do in the local area.

Joanne, Food Bank Manager at Angel Trust, said : “We are very grateful for T Manners’ generosity and will ensure their  donations support those in the community who need it most.”

Pictured left to right – Joanne (Food Bank Manager), Mykal (Site Manager and Judith (Pantry Manager).

It’s great to be working on a second project with Karbon Homes at Back Lane in Thirsk, not far from the Saxty Way site.  Another rent-to-buy project, Back Lane features 10 bungalows and 54 houses, to support the local community with a range of affordable housing choices.

There is a lot of activity on site at the moment with ground workers installing drainage, all foundations have been excavated and cast, and sub-structures are in place to plot 44.

We look forward to keeping you posted as the site develops.

Working on behalf of Thirteen Group, we are delighted to receive a glowing Considerate Constructors Scheme Monitor’s Report for our Westdale Road site, in central Thornaby. The report rates the site ‘Excellent’ in the three key criteria of: Respect for the Community, Care for the Environment and Value for our Workforce.

The site has been praised for the excellent start to its works and for showing consideration in its operation to ensure the minimum impact on the local community, including a good start in both its careers and community events planning. Environmental systems have been credited as being robust, with a number of good practices implemented, such as favouring local suppliers and sub-contractors to reduce travel, fuel and ensuring local spend. Additionally, the site is providing its workforce with excellent welfare facilities and has been applauded for taking a large number of the scheme’s e-learning modules.

Well done to site manager Wayne Howman, contracts manager Chris Sinclair, quantity surveyor Rebecca Hodge and the rest of the team for their dedication to achieving such an excellent report.

Thank you McVickers for your great feedback about our work together on the Dr Ryan House project.

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.”