Construction Newsletter Issue 18 - Winter
Building Big
with our local schools
The Big Build
Wrapping up for winter It's been a busy year for Wembley Park. Amidst all the development that is taking place in this corner of borough, we've been working hard to deliver a robust and powerful community engagement programme. Alongside our contractors, we have engaged over 7,000 school pupils across Brent this year through our educational engagement programme. From workshops on workplace resilience to site tours of live construction sites, we endeavour to inform and educate the wider community on the careers available within the construction and built environment industry. Our contractor community framework, which works alongside our educational engagement programme, sets out the structure for our various pre-employment and progression pathways into the construction industry. This includes our initiatives for our Women in Construction and BAME in Construction programmes. Over 6,000 individuals have attended our numerous talks, events, seminars and workshops. Over 2,400 individuals and 14 community projects have benefitted from the third round of funding from the Wembley Park Community Fund this year. Grants of between £1,000 and £10,000 have been awarded to charities, community and voluntary organisations aiming to create better places, better lives and better local networks.
workshops at schools, making benches out of reclaimed wood at St. Raphael's community garden, increasing awareness of dementia and so much more. Collectively we've volunteered over 670 hours this year to projects across Brent.
The Big Build
Since 2017, the Wembley Park development has helped 123 people secure construction apprenticeships and 75 residents into other construction jobs.
Students from Mora Primary, Mitchell Brook Primary and Brentfield Primary had been tasked with the challenge of building an outdoor musical play area from recycled materials creating large-scale instruments from junk.
There are still a range of opportunities available for residents to apply to, which will be promoted to the local communities of Brent. Quintain and their partners Wates, McLaren, McAleer & Rushe, John Sisk & Sons, Huber and O’Keefe, are proud to have set an example for how developments can support local employment.
This November, Wembley Park invited 60 school children from three Brent primary schools to take on the annual Big Build challenge.
After a briefing by Intercultural Musicology, the children got to work using collected recyclable materials to start constructing their musical instruments.
These apprenticeships and jobs have included business administration, site management, electrical installation, plumbing and heating, dry lining, painting & decorating, general construction operative, bricklaying and quantity surveying. The Wembley Park skills team has also been proactive in encouraging women and residents from black and ethnic minority groups (BAME) to access the opportunities available, both groups that are underrepresented in the sector. Email the Wembley Park skills team to find out how you can get involved:
skills@wembleypark.com
This was a joint initiative between Quintain/Wembley Park and contractors: John Sisk & Sons, Alandale Logistics, McAleer & Rushe, Wates Construction, and McLaren Construction. Thank you to all the children who took part, working as teams to create musical instruments from the recycled materials donated from Wembley Park offices.
In support of Brent London Borough of Culture 2020, 40% of this year's funding pot has been allocated to arts and cultural projects in the borough. Through the Wembley Park employee volunteering scheme, members of Tipi, Quintain and Wembley Park staff have travelled across the borough delivering
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Women in construction school talk
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