PAISLEY-based Clark Contracts is supporting a range of charities through the company’s volunteering scheme.
Since 2017, the contractor has offered its employees the chance to spend one paid working day per year volunteering for a charity of their choice.
The initiative means over 2,000 hours can be spent supporting charities across Scotland, and over recent months, a number of employees have used this to support charities including Erskine, Fresh Start Scotland, Finding Your Feet, Hansel, Move on Wood Recycling and the Prince and Princess of Wales Hospice.
Two employees from Clark’s design management team spent the day supporting Erskine, which provides support to veterans in Scotland. The team undertook a stock-take of inventory and merchandise before joining the residents of McKellar and Haig House for a reminiscence session in the ‘Bunker’, to socialise with the residents and rekindle memories.
Six employees from Clark’s Edinburgh Office spent a morning volunteering for Fresh Start Scotland, who help people who have experienced homelessness set up their new home. This team helped out in Fresh Start’s warehouse in Pilton, Edinburgh.
The contractor has also supported Paisley-based Finding Your Feet, with two separate volunteering days. The first was completed by the marketing and business development department, which completed gardening works, followed by a team of quantity surveyors who assisted with moving furniture.
Three separate groups of employees from the fit out division, construction division and HR and recruitment department volunteered with the Prince and Princess of Wales Hospice, where they helped organise donations which will be sold in the charity’s retail stores.
Ayrshire-based charity, Hansel, has also benefited from the initiative, with a senior contracts manager and senior quantity surveyor spending a day painting the interior of a new den at Red Rose House respite centre in Stevenston.
Finally, the company’s MD has supported Move on Wood Recycling (MOWR), by offering support and guidance to help grow the charity by identifying new business opportunities. MOWR is now receiving further support from a member of the marketing team to help develop a marketing strategy.
Gordon Cunningham, MD of Clark Contracts, said, “This initiative was introduced following a suggestion by our company steering group, and it is brilliant to see so many employees using the benefit to provide valuable support to a wide range of charities, who all do amazing work within their communities and across the country. We hope this continues as the year goes on, with charities continuing to benefit from our employee’s time.”
