South Wales team completes week of volunteering

A team of 39 volunteers from across our businesses in South Wales swapped their day jobs to complete a week-long volunteering initiative for Girlguiding Central Glamorgan at its Gorwelion camp.

The 5.5 acre site near Porthcawl, south Wales, provides young people with the opportunity to camp and learn new skills but had fallen into some disrepair due to lack of use during the Covid pandemic and as a result of storm damage.

The volunteers took advantage of the one paid day a year Hanson offers its employees to support local community projects and activities and carried out a range of improvements including: resurfacing the entrance road and car park; clearing the pathway and vegetation; installing a new boundray fence; and rebuilding and stocking the wood shed.

“With such a large team of volunteers we were able to make a huge difference to the site, improving accessibility and safety, and I am very proud to have been a part of it,” said health and wellbeing specialist Tracey Middleton-Lee, who helped organise the activities along with Lithalun quarry manager Ben Tierney.

Julie Thomas, County Commissioner for Girlguiding Central Glamorgan, said: “Girlguiding is a charity run by volunteers so any improvements require a lot of fundraising before we can proceed.

“I, along with my team, cannot tell you how much the work carried out by the Hanson team means to us. The coordination and professionalism with which it was scheduled and carried out was exceptional and it would have taken us years to achieve what was completed in just one week.

“It will make such a huge difference to the hundreds of children using the site which include other organisations who use our facility such as Socuts and a local unit that supports children with additional needs. Thank you!”