John writes: I spoke at the House of Lords yesterday about our achievement of the Ethical Labour Sourcing Standard. Baroness Young of Hornsey hosted the reception at the House of Lords to mark the launch of ELS online, a digital tool…
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Zena writes: Last Thursday I attended the first Inspire Me workshop. VGC is proud to be an official supporter of the campaign. Most of the workshop attendees were women: a refreshing reverse of the normal gender balance at construction events. Everyone…
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Guest blogger Tony Bird writes: I’m looking for sponsors for a team charity kayak challenge. We’re aiming to raise £10,000 for Four Paws, Alzheimer’s Research and Samaritans. Why do a kayaking challenge? Well, the story begins when I started my…
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Ciara writes: Our initial Women in Construction group meeting yesterday morning went extremely well. We were delighted that our chairman, Sean Fitzpatrick, joined us for the start of the meeting. He reaffirmed that we have senior level board support for…
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Kim writes: It’s been a busy winter so far, and it’s going to get even busier. Since my last blog, I have met more people about taking my Women in construction programme into schools, as well as working with BuildForce…
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Richard writes: I’ve recently been delivering toolbox talks on language to workers on the A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon Improvement Scheme. Using the FIR toolkit from the Supply Chain Sustainability School’s award-winning resource library, the language presentation aims to create an awareness of…
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Ben writes: I attended an excellent stand-down day on the A14 in December. The event was held at the IWM Duxford RAF War Museum. There were two briefings of around four hours each, with the day split into two halves to…
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Richard writes: Recent energy usage initiatives have resulted in savings to VGC. These savings represent money, and also a smaller carbon footprint. And they support our ISO50001 Energy Management accreditation. Electricity Our total electricity usage for 2017 was slightly up…
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Sam writes: I’ve just been on a very interesting course on the future of finance leadership run by CIMA (the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants). The traditional view of a finance department is that they are gatekeepers and “just exist…
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Chelsey writes: Next summer I’m going to do the Icelandic Lava trek to raise money for Samaritans. I work for VGC as part of the payroll team. I have worked for VGC for the last year and am now part…
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Ciara writes: On behalf of the shareholders and directors of the VGC Group, Sean, Laurence and I would like to express our sincere thanks to everyone at VGC for your hard work in 2017. Despite early challenges in the year…
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John writes: December is going to be busy for my teams in the Midlands, working on a number of projects for client Siemens. Blackpool to Manchester NWEP At the moment, people are working round the clock in Blackpool and Manchester.…
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