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Local grass roots sports clubs play a huge part in local communities and are needed more than ever in the current circumstances. Veseyans Rugby have over 350 children at their club along with three senior teams and they have put in place stringent social distancing measures to allow training to continue, unfortunately the additional traffic and segregated parking meant that the existing roadways were inadequate.

With the help of Paul McGowan Grab Hire Ltd we are on site this week supporting the club by constructing new roads and upgrading the existing to ensure they can continue to operate and have a great start to 2021.

It might also come in handy if Santa needs an emergency landing strip next week!!

Merry Christmas and all the best for 2021.

Veseyan’s Rugby Club Commented:

“As we look forward to a return to rugby soon as safe and possible we are still working hard behind the scenes to keep your club in great shape for the next year.

We have always been very lucky to have some great sponsors and our friends at O’Brien Contractors are working down at the club this week extending our roadway to improve the parking facilities on busy Saturday afternoons and Sunday mornings.

Club Chairman Marc Hemingway stated, “We are massively grateful to Tony Mitchell and all at O’Briens for getting this work done for us in the current economic climate, and we are delighted to have you on board as club sponsors this season.”

Leading groundworks and civil engineering contractor, O’Brien, has been awarded the CHAS accreditation in recognition of its sound management of health and safety.

Managing Director, Peter O’Brien said: “The health and safety of our team, our clients and the public is our main priority and we invest in on-going health and safety to ensure our operations are as safe as possible.

This accreditation demonstrates to our clients that health and safety is pivotal to our business and site operations. CHAS is a market leader for health and safety qualification and I am delighted our industry-leading standards have stood up against the stringent qualification criteria.”

Could you help us by donating just a £1 each? Click the link to our charity page below….

https://trust.obriencontractors.co.uk/obrien-directors-match-1-for-1-for-charity-2/

IT TAKES 30 SECONDS TO DONATE VIA PAYPAL ON OUR DONATE BUTTON!
SIMPLY CLICK THE DONATE BUTTON AT THE TOP OF THIS PAGE (bottom on mobiles)
DONT FORGET TO TICK GIFT AID!

Last year we donated £30,000 to charity organisations such as: Child Bereavement, Terminally Ill Children, Air Ambulance, Homeless Charity, Youth Charity
ALSO!!!! Over the next few weeks we will be releasing details of other fundraisers, including a holiday raffle, air miles, but this kick off campaign is simple but effective and a great way to kick off our 2020 charity drive.

The Directors will match your donations up to £15,000 to make £30,000 for charity!

Congratulations to our site operative Christie McBride, who has won our 3rd Quarter Employee Outstanding Contribution Award for  June – August.

Christie was nominated by his Project Manager Guy Baker who said: “We nominated Christie due to his willingness to learn, his good attitude to work and willingness to get stuck in on our works on the £50m Blythe Valley project for ZF.”

O’Brien Values Skills and Dedication of our Site Teams

In recognition of this, we have for many years run the ‘Employee Outstanding Achievement Award’. The award goes to a member of one of our site teams each quarter to coincide with our quarterly newsletter.

Project Managers nominate the operative that they think has gone above and beyond for the previous quarter and the candidate with the most recommendations wins the award. In recognition of their outstanding contribution, the winner gets a £500 cheque and a certificate in recognition of their hard work.

O’Brien Contractors have donated a further £5,000 to support Home of Hope, a fantastic children’s home in Mchinji, Malawi which cares for over 700 orphans from all over Malawi area.

Back in 2017 we donated £7,000 towards setting up a Vocational Training Centre, supporting the Malawi Orphan Fund through working with Phil Janes at SDC Builders Limited.  Phil goes over to Malawi with his wife and a group of other volunteers, providing their time to carry out projects at the home. This time the team will be building additional toilet and bathing facilities as well as repairs to the accommodation blocks at the village and other crucial works.

Ruth Janes – Hon Treasurer Malawi Orphan Fund said, “Many thanks for the very generous donation of £5,000 to Malawi Orphan Fund from O’Brien Contractors. I confirm that it has safely reached Malawi Orphan Fund’s bank account. We will pass this gift on to the Home of Hope in the very near future.  This money will be of enormous benefit to all the children and young people living and studying at the Home who are among the poorest, most disadvantaged or vulnerable within Malawi.”

Malawi Orphan Fund supports the Home of Hope children’s home in Mchinji, Malawi, which cares for orphans from all over Malawi, providing food, shelter and good quality education in a loving environment. Their primary means of support is through sponsorship.

Home of Hope’s vision is for equipping orphans and other vulnerable children to lead independent lives to the full, by providing them with vocational skills to enable them to enter skilled employment, or set up businesses of their own.

Home of Hope consists of 5 main sectors: the Village, the School, the Farm, the Clinic and the Vocational Centre. Together they enable the Home to best meet the needs of those they care for.

TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THIS INCREDIBLE ORGANISATION AND HOW YOU CAN HELP:  https://malawiorphanfund.uk/how-to-help

O’Brien Contractors have recently purchased 8 new vans enhancing  our fleet of over 40 vans.

The 8 new vans are replacements in line with our policy of replacement on a 5 year cycle.  This maintains a modern fleet of vans and ensures we continue to make use of the latest technology and maintain low emission standards, as well as providing safe, reliable and environmentally friendly vehicles for our staff.  The new vans take our van fleet up to 45 number.

All the vans are sporting the new O’Brien livery, captured in a very artistic shot by our Transport Manager James!

O’Brien Contractors recently sponsored the Sean McDermotts U17 squad kit.

This team are the current Warwickshire Championship and League holders which have they have held since the squad was first formed at U10.

They were also All Britain runners up in 2018 and are considered one of the most promising panel of players within the county.

Unfortunately the season has been curtailed by the current pandemic but they hope to be back playing in September wearing the O’Brien squad kit with pride.

O’Brien Supporting our Local Communities and Organisations

Throughout the year we donate / sponsor people on their charity endeavours, such as parachute jumps, sporting challenges, also supporting school publications, local independent public sports organisations (not publicly funded), maintenance of community facilities and many other varied causes.

In the last 4 years O’Brien Contractors have donated, sponsored or provided man hours to individuals or public / community organisations in the amount of £45,000 to date and will continue to assist in the future.

O’Brien’s work on our second phase contract at the Urban Splash, new Port Loop Development is progressing very well in Birmingham with O’Brien now commencing finishing works on site.

Following on from the success of our phase one works, we were awarded works on the second phase. Works on the first phase of the project was for foundations, drainage and landscaping works for 40 new 2 and 3 storey homes, including canalside housing, along with the construction of roads and pavements. On the second phase works we have been proving foundations, drainage, landscaping, roads and pavements for a further 28 number 2 and 3 storey homes.

O’Brien is delighted to continue the work with Urban Splash to create a state-of-the-art new development project.

Circled by a kilometre of historic canal, Port Loop is a brand new community with an urban island at its heart. Just 15 minutes’ walk from the city centre, this is Birmingham’s most exciting new place to live.

The Port Loop masterplan includes a range of spacious modern homes, communal gardens, a new swimming pool and leisure centre, traffic-free green streets, a vibrant community hub and central Birmingham’s first new public green spaces in over a decade. Over 1.5km of new tow paths will also help to make it part of a better connected city. A place for couples, singletons, families and all generations, it’s a brand new neighbourhood, built from the ground up.

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.

O’Brien Contractors have won our third education contract in a week, making it a hat trick of wins for us!

We have been awarded a contract for a playground expansion scheme at Abbeyfields School in Northampton, the scheme will start in the next few weeks.  The contract award followed lengthy discussions with the school and their consultants to bring the scheme to fruition.

Abbeyfield School is a mixed secondary school and sixth form located in Northampton in the English county of Northamptonshire.
offering  GCSEs and BTECs as programmes of study for pupils, while sixth form students can choose to study from range of A Levels and further BTECs

Abbeyfield School is part of the Creative Education Trust (CET). Creativity, problem-solving and innovation are central to the approach to learning.

O’Brien are pleased to announce the award of 2 new contracts across three school sites in the Midlands.

Bromsgrove and Winterfold Independent School

O’Brien have secured works at Bromsgrove and Winterfold Independent School. The project which is over two separate sites, involves the total refurbishment of the Kindergarten unit at Winterfold School, and includes the complete strip out of the existing building, installation of mechanical/electrical infrastructure along with fitting out new kitchen and toilet block facilities. The works at Bromsgrove are the upgrading of the hard landscaping to the front façade of the main school building. Works will begin on site next week for 8 weeks.

Solihull Independent School

O’Brien have secured further works at Solihull Independent School. The project is further expansion of the car parking facilities at the school and is the second phase of the works that we previously carried out last summer. The works are due to start in mid-July and will be completed in August.