Mears
Mears Group Plc, a leading social housing maintenance company
A 27th London Home-Start scheme took a step further to completion in November 2007 thanks to help from national construction firm Mears and a local primary school. Home-Start Wandsworth was at development stage at the time. Not only did it need to secure vital funding and volunteers, but also a base to work from. West Hill Primary School in Southfields, London, kindly donated one of its own rooms to Home-Start Wandsworth, the only problem was that the room was in urgent need of repair.
Mears, which is the leading Social Housing repairs and maintenance provider in the UK, seemed the ideal choice for Home-Start to approach as they believe that local companies should contribute to supporting local communities. Mears does this by volunteering the skills of its workforce to help provide long-term sustaining benefits to local people.
Thanks to an already established relationship between Mears and Home-Start, (Mears Head of Human Resources is also a trustee for Home-Start Bury), Mears were happy to get in involved.
Dawn Lambert, Head of HR at Mears said then: "I have been involved with Home-Start for several years now and really believe that it's a wonderful charity. Home-Start not only helps the families it works with but benefits the community at large. When Home-Start came to Mears for help it was a perfect match as Mears is dedicated to supporting local communities. The refurbishment undertaken by Mears will help many people within the community for a very long time."
Home-Start Wandsworth got up and running in September 2009 and is now supporting some of the most vulnerable children and their families in the borough.
Teams of volunteers from the Mears branch in Nottingham also came out to the new Home-Start Centre in Leicester and transformed the kitchen and garden. The painted wall, in particular, in the garden has made it really child friendly, and gave some of Mears’ call centre staff a welcome opportunity to spend some working time outdoors.
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