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O’Brien were the shirt sponsors for a charity game for the RFU (Injured Players Foundation).

‘Veseyans Rugby Club’ https://www.veseyansrugby.co.uk/ a casual team, made up of people from all walks of life (including our Operations Manager Tony Mitchell) and the ‘Commons and Lords RUFC, made up of MP’s, Lords and staff, took part in an exciting charity match at Twickenham where the Veseyans won 33-34 last week.

O’Brien were very proud to be a sponsor for this match!

Just in case you are wondering who Ronnie Poulton is, he was a fantastic Rugby Player! Follow the Link to read his story:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Poulton-Palmer

O’Brien Contractors has been awarded the RoSPA Gold Medal Award, which is our 6th consecutive RoSPA Gold Award!

The internationally-renowned RoSPA Health and Safety Awards, are the longest-running industry awards scheme in the UK and has been awarded to us in recognition of our practices and achievements, in helping staff and clients and stakeholders get home safely at the end of the working day.

The RoSPA Awards scheme, which receives entries from organisations around the world, recognises achievement in health and safety  management systems, including practices such as leadership and workforce involvement.

Managing Director, Peter O’Brien, said: We are delighted to have been recognised with a RoSPA Gold Medal Award again for 2019.  As a company we are dedicated to making sure that all of our sites are safe both for everyone working on them and for members of the public. Receiving this award again is testament to how hard we all work to achieve that.”

O’Brien Contractors is committed to providing safe and healthy working environments for all of our staff.  O’Brien  provides ongoing training, information, supervision and advice so that all of our employees are competent to work safely and are committed to providing the resources necessary to support this provision.

Our industry-leading standards have also been recognised with many other occupational health and safety accreditations ranging from OHSAS 18001 to CHAS, Achilles Building Confidence and RISQS.

 

Winterfold House School, synthetic grass hockey pitch has been awarded FIH Certification.

O’Brien Contractors who are FIH Certified Field Builders recently completed the design and build for the construction of the full-size sand dressed synthetic hockey pitch as well as a spectator area, black weldmesh fencing & floodlighting. In addition to this we constructed two porous macadam tennis and netball courts with floodlighting as well as access pathways and access road.

O’Brien Sports Director, Mick O’Brien, said: “We are delighted that the Winterfold House School pitch has gained FIH certification. Our sports division has been delivering top quality hockey fields for many years now and this certification recognises the professionalism, skill and high standards that O’Brien Contractors bring to all of our projects.”

FIH Certified Field Builders are companies that specialise in building hockey fields. The companies that achieve accreditation have a proven ability to construct fields to the international standards the game requires. They have appropriate in-house civil engineering expertise for the design and construction of 11-a-side and Hockey 5s fields, operate quality management systems to ensure consistency in their work, and provide comprehensive maintenance advice to their customers.

Only a small number of firms worldwide have so far achieved FIH accreditation award.

 

SMASHED IT! STAFF AT O’BRIEN CONTRACTORS RAISE ANOTHER £30,000 FOR CHARITY!

The staff at OBCL have repeated last years success and raised £15,000 from a series of organized events and challenges throughout 2018. Because the staff reached their target, O’Brien Contractors Limited generously matched the sum raised by staff, making a fabulous total of £30,000 for the O’Brien Charitable Trust good causes.

Events were organised throughout the year by our hard-working charity committee, made up of 7 members of staff, who work tirelessly throughout the year, organising events to raise much needed funds for our chosen charities. The events are enthusiastically supported by all staff and this year’s events, have included:Christmas Jumper Day – Which is very competitive!

Movember – Even the girls joined in with fake moustaches!
3 Peaks Challenge – Staff took to the hills!
Wolf Run – Staff got stuck in on the very wet and muddy course!
Charity Golf Day / Charity Auction – Staff took on our suppliers raising £8,523!
Site to Site Walk – Trekking 12-miles from our project site in Gaydon to Cubbington.

The charities that will benefit from this year’s fundraising events include:

Helping Hands Community – Helps local people in need
Molly Holly Wishes – Supports children with terminal & life-threatening illnesses
Warwickshire & Northamptonshire Air Ambulance – Rapid emergency response
Doorway Youth Homelessness – Supports homeless & vulnerable 16-25-year olds
Young People First – Works with disadvantaged & vulnerable young people
Guys Gift – Supports bereaved children

A special mention for their hard work and efforts to Kelly Davis, Michael Hughes, Berwyn, John Maxwell, Hessy Fakatou and Daniel Taylor, who have worked tirelessly throughout the year and whose huge drive for success have been instrumental in helping us reach our £15,000 target in 2018.

OBCL Managing Director, Peter O’Brien said: ‘We would like to thank everyone who participated and contributed to the success of us reaching our target again this year, everyone’s hard work and generosity enables us to donate much needed funds for good causes. We are looking forward to some fun activities in the new year to help us hit our target again for 2019.’

If you would like more information on the O’Brien Charitable Trust and our events, please click on our link for more information https://trust.obriencontractors.co.uk.

If you would like to make a donation to the trust, there is a very easy payment facility on the Charitable Trust Weblink above, where you can make a donation and leave a message, or if you prefer you can make an anonymous donation.

With the end of the year in touching distance, O’Brien felt it would be appropriate to finish it with some positivity.

Here is O’Brien’s year in review which shows how the company has exceeded its business objectives across the board for 2018.

Here at O’Brien we have had some mo-mentous fundraising results for the trust. Movember has been a huge triumph with an epic £3,125 being raised by the team and this figure is still rising.

The Charitable Trust are over the moon with the success of the tache-growing-team, their fundraising efforts has meant that O’Brien have met their £15K target for 2018.

Peter O’Brien said: “With only 4 people in the Movember team, £3K + is an unbelievable total! It has been a fantastic success, simple, straightforward and great fun. Thanks very much to everyone involved and most importantly it will have just got us past the annual £15K target, which is brilliant.”

If you would like to continue to support or donate to O’Brien Charitable Trust, please follow the link here: https://trust.obriencontractors.co.uk/

O’Brien has been awarded a contract by Urban Splash at the new Port Loop Development in Birmingham.

The contract value is approximately £1.2 million, and works have already commenced on site.

Urban Splash is an exciting new client; O’Brien looks forward to working with them to create a state-of-the-art new development project.

Urban Splash said: “The future neighbourhood of Port Loop will be both liveable and loveable. We are creating an environment that helps us look after ourselves, with homes that suit our changing ways of life in a place that embraces multi-generational living.
It will be a neighbourhood of true and lasting.”

On Saturday 13th October, 20 of O’Brien staff with friends and family, and a dog, undertook a 10 mile walk across the Cotswold’s hills.

Setting off for 8:30am the team headed up Brailes Hill, followed by Broom Hill and lastly tackling Yarn Hill, where after they took a well-deserved rest at the Bell Inn at Shennington.

O’Brien Charitable Trust were behind the event, which raised money for its nominated charities and proved to be an enjoyable day out for all.

Darren Wortley, O’Brien Buyer said: “It was a great day out with excellent comradery amongst the team, the Cotswold hills were a stunning background to whole event. We couldn’t have asked for better weather.”

If you would like to find out more about O’Brien Charitable Trust and how much they have raised so far, please visit: https://trust.obriencontractors.co.uk/ 

O’Brien is pleased to announce it is an Affiliate Partner for Wasps Rugby Club, which is based at the Ricoh Arena Coventry.

The official announcement was made on Saturday at the Wasps vs. Gloucester game. Peter O’Brien, O’Brien’s Managing Director was invited down on to the pitch with his O’Brien team to meet Wasps Managing Director, Stuart Cain.

O’Brien launched a campaign at the ground to strengthen the association between its sports and civils work. “Raise your game” was designed to encompass and promote its experience and capabilities within both areas of sports and civils contracts.

Peter O’Brien, said: “It is a great opportunity for O’Brien to be associated with a prestigious club such as Wasps. We hope the campaign at the ground will enlighten and encourage people to think of O’Brien Sports and O’Brien Contractors when they need any advice on sports and civils projects.”

O’Brien looks forward to the year ahead and supporting Wasps in their 2018/19 season.

On Saturday 1^st September 2018 a team of 18 set off on the Wolf Run, a 10K run including 30 obstacles, made up of cargo nets, a lake swim and treading through tons of mud.  The team’s ages ranged from 20 to 60 years old, the course was by no means an easy task, impressively all contenders finished unscathed and elated at the thought of a well-earned rest.

The Wolf Run event is held on a regular basis throughout the year, in all weathers, and was held at Welsh Road Farm in Hunningham, Warwickshire.

O’Brien Charitable Trust once again used a fantastic event to raise money for its local charities.

If you would like help support O’Brien Charitable Trust, please click here to make a donation: https://trust.obriencontractors.co.uk/