Community News

Our Tytherington quarry has supported St Helen’s CE Primary School in Alveston with the creation of its new sensory garden.

Our Batts Combe quarry opened its doors for a family friendly open day, with over £1,000 raised from ticket sales going to local charity, Cheddar Youth Trust.

We have agreed planning conditions with Somerset Council to reopen Westdown quarry, nea

Repairs to the footpath that runs adjacent to Egford Brook in Vallis Vale are now complete and the area has reopened to the public.

We’ve commissioned a new Class 08e electric shunting locomotive at our Whatley quarry in Frome, Somerset.

Members of our Batts Combe quarry team were thrilled to honour the memory of comedy greats, plus meet act

We recently welcomed a group of 16 fossil enthusiasts from the Holiday Property Bond group to our site, following a request from a local geologist.

Great Elm residents now have quicker access to life-saving equipment, thanks to the installation of a new defibrillator funded by our Whatley quarry, along with community donations.

Martin Symons, Community Support Co-Ordinator and former Logistics Manager at Whatley quarry recently visited St Louis Primary School in Frome as part of its Aspirations Week to talk to students ab

We have completed works to create a permissive path linking Glyncoch and the Darren Ddu Road.

We have welcomed five new faces at Padeswood – four engineering apprentices and a graduate trainee manager, strengthening our commitment to skills development and local employment in north Wales.

Builder Ben Jarvis takes care of a baby hedgehog, while colleague Jason Chapman gets on with construction work. 

We are supporting the next generation of engineers through a new partnership with Somerset Studio School, Radstock (part of the MNSP Trust) and the Somerset Earth Science Centre, giving a local stu

Colleagues from our Ketton cement works were among local employers taking part in a new jobs and careers fair held at Stamford Arts Centre.

To keep our near neighbours informed about planned quarry blasts, we have introduced a free blasting notification service for residents living close to Batts Combe quarry.

Our Chipping Sodbury quarry has donated a selection of natural stone boulders to the newly opened Believe Memorial Garden at Cardiff Crematorium in Thornhill, which honours those who have donated o

Our Shap Beck quarry has supported Shap Parish Council to bring the village’s public toilets back into use.

A charity golf day organised by the Rotary Club of Chipping Sodbury raised £2,700 for the Southmead Hospital Walkerbot Appeal and other local charities, with support from our Chipping Sodbury quarr