Taking the Lead on Inclusivity

We are delighted to announce that we have retained our Disability Confident Leader status!

Disability Confidence enables us to recruit, retain and develop disabled people. The badge also shows our disabled colleagues that we recognise the value they bring to our business.

Being a Disability Confident Leader means that not only do we actively recruit and retain disabled people, we actively encourage other employers and organisations to do the same.

Leading in Tower Hamlets   

Currently, we are delivering 62 new homes and 5 new commercial spaces for the London Borough of Tower Hamlets on a central and very constrained site at Arnold Road in Bow, East London.

We have a long history of delivering projects in and for Tower Hamlets and, being neighbours to the borough, we are fully invested in the wellbeing of all its diverse communities.

To that end, we have been working with the Tower Project.  The Tower Project is a community based voluntary sector organisation which provides exemplary services and community engagement. It delivers a plethora of services for disabled children, young people and adults in East London.

One of their core services is supporting residents with special needs into employment, in Tower Hamlets and we have employed two clients of theirs at Arnold Road as well as hosting four work experience placements and a site visit.

The Tower Project recently hosted a training session for those working with those with disabilities to which we were invited. The training was amazing, and it has really helped us as an employer to gain further confidence and experience in employing and working with staff with disabilities.

Leading in Redbridge

Elsewhere in East London, Jerram Falkus is on site at Wanstead High School and Leisure Centre. Last week we hosted eight young people, all with extra needs, to do some gardening. It was a rather soggy day but at least the plants didn’t need extra watering and the gardens will look wonderful when they come into bloom!

The youngsters were with their carers and tutors from New City College in Redbridge. They will be there for one day a week over the next 6 weeks, as part of their career development PHSE subject. Once this group is done, there will be another cohort.

Jerram Falkus have supplied the tools and equipment for them to undertake their education – as builders we know where to procure spades!

Leading in Barking & Dagenham

Finally, we are also employing another client of the Tower Project at our Roxwell Road site in Barking!

So when we say we are taking the lead on inclusivity we mean it and we want others to do the same.

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