Hanson partners with Dorset Highways on volunteer project

Hanson has offered its aggregate and contracting services to help create a new access road and improve safety at the Joseph Weld Hospice in Dorchester – an inpatient unit for Weldmar Hospicecare, a charity providing end of life care for people in Dorset.

The project, in conjunction with Dorset Highways and part of the council’s ‘on the job’ staff volunteering day, involved designing and building a new road from the hospice’s carpark into the field it uses to host fundraising events.

Hanson donated 24 tonnes of asphalt to the scheme and provided the people and equipment to lay the road. The volunteer effort, also supported by W J Road Markings and Bradfords Building Supplies Ltd, has saved the hospice £20,000.

“We are delighted to have helped Dorset Highways on this community initiative,” said Hanson Contracting’s major projects director Denis Curran.

“Our aggregates division provided the materials and our contracting team carried out the work.

“We hope that the money saved can go some way towards helping the hospice to support its patients and their families.”

In addition to the new access road, an improved drainage system has been installed to remove water from the carpark, which will also reduce ice forming in the winter, improving safety and preventing defects.