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Corporate Social Responsibility at Tamdown

L OCAL C OMMUNITY E NVIRONMENTAL & S USTAINABILITY H EALTH & S AFETY C HARITY P EOPLE This model illustrates Tamdown’s approach to Corporate Social Responsibility

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Environmental & Sustainability

The Tamdown Group understands the importance of sustainable construction practices in helping reduce the impacts on the environment and also improving economic profitability for both our Business and that of our Client’s.

The Tamdown Group works within the “ConstructionSkills” 10 point plan for construction companies to enhance sustainable construction

practices as summarised below: 1. The Tamdown Group use recycled or sustainable materials whenever possible.

2. Our buying department is conscientious in ordering only the materials which are needed for our sites.

3. Our buying department use local suppliers whenever possible to minimise the road journeys to and from the site.

4. We ensure that we take advantages of grants and funding available to sustainable construction.

5. On site, we ensure that site employees are aware and considerate to site neighbours and regularly register our sites with the considerate constructors scheme.

6. Keeping up to date with new legislation and technologies and implementing best practice whenever feasible.

7. We ensure that waste is separated and recycled and dispose of the remainder legally, where applicable using registered waste carriers only and keeping a record of relevant paperwork.

8. We ensure the avoidance of causing pollution to land, water or air by stopping uncontrolled water entering or leaving excavations and run off from earthworks.

9. The Tamdown Group are keen to protect the natural environment, biodiversity and heritage by identifying and safeguarding important or protected areas.

10. We ensure the health and safety of those on our sites and the local community during construction.

The Tamdown Group understands CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) is a key driver for businesses seeking to embrace sustainability into their business.

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Health & Safety at Tamdown Our Focus on Health and Safety

Health and Safety is at the forefront of every employee in our business. We have a dedicated health and safety team that works alongside our construction personnel in educating, monitoring and improving our teams together with carrying out frequent HSQE (Health, Safety, Quality and Environmental) site audits. Our internal “workSmart” initiative focusing on behavioral elements of health and safety practices is a pioneering approach to continuous improvement.

We are proud to be BSI accredited to 18001.

Graeme Burston M.C.I.O.B, Director responsible for safety, Bovis Homes:

"I have been impressed with the commitment and dedication of the Tamdown Group towards Health & Safety and delivering a good service to time, cost and quality. Recently I had a meeting with Tamdown to discuss how they dealt with manual handling assessments, Bovis Homes was so impressed with the Tamdown Group's manual handling risk assessment system that this has now been adopted throughout the business as a model of best practice.”

“Tamdown are certainly a company that I would recommend.”

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Our People Passionate about our people

Here at Tamdown, we are committed to releasing the potential of our people and developing their knowledge and skills, providing them with a rewarding and satisfying career .

Tamdown prides itself as a learning organisation, constantly seeking innovative solutions to problems and growing stronger each time with the effort expended.

Our people work hard but play hard too; we endeavor to ensure all our employees have a good work-life balance. We are proud to have been shortlisted for the “Best Places to Work in Construction” awards in 2008 and 2009 and have been investor in people accredited since 2002.

Examples of Tamdown’s commitment to employee development

Our Finance Director Dawn Hillman is a typical example of how Tamdown supports personal growth by professional development and strives to embrace employees who demonstrate career ambition, energy and passion for continuous learning, Dawn joined the Tamdown Group in 1985 as a receptionist.

Our HSQE Manager has over 30 years experience within the groundwork's industry and started off as a plant driver. Mick Bray has worked his way up through the ranks to HSQE Manager, Tamdown has supported him in achieving his ambitions.

Joe O'Brien has taken advantage of one of the comprehensive apprentice schemes offered by the Tamdown Group and is about to embark on his final year on an plant mechanics apprenticeship.

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Our People Apprenticeships at Tamdown

The Tamdown Group works together with the National Construction College in delivering apprenticeships in Plant, training with on-site experience.

Construction Operations and Plant Mechanics. The National Construction College is the leading provider of specialist apprenticeship courses. Working with companies for over 40 years, delivering apprenticeship courses which combine college The Tamdown Group is committed to apprenticeships and aims and objectives.

to our community, developing our people effectively in order to improve our performance and achieve our Throughout our history we have developed and continue to run apprenticeship programmes.

opportunities.

In addition to Site Based apprenticeships, the Tamdown Group also offer a range of office based development

The Tamdown Group is dedicated to the running of apprenticeship schemes to ensure we have the skills for today, tomorrow and beyond.

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Charity and the Tamdown Group

The Tamdown Foundation

Recently the Tamdown Group set up the Tamdown Foundation with the aim to raise £100,000 for charities in 2011. Five charities have been nominated by members of the Tamdown team; each charity has a very personal link with a member of our staff. We have witnessed the love and support these charities provide at the most trying of times .There are inspiring stories and there are sad stories. The Tamdown Group is committing 1% of its profits in 2011 to get the fund underway. Fundraising will be achieved through a number of activities including the annual Tamdown Triathlon, Summer charity ball, London to Paris bike ride and 24 hour swim.

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Working together with our local community HCS (formally Trident) work experience for local students

The Tamdown Group regularly offer 2 week work placements for local students every year through the HCS formally known as the Trident scheme, historically this has been predominately office based, however the Tamdown Group are looking to extend this to Site.

HCS has a well-established track record of supporting young people between the ages of 14-19 to prepare for life beyond the classroom.

The aim of the work experience offered by Tamdown is to help young people improve their employability skills and develop as individuals, as well as making the work placement process as easy as possible for employers, learners, schools and colleges.

We fully support our local County Council and regularly attend an annual employment evenings which evolves local employers setting up stands and providing local students in their last year of school information about careers within our organisation.

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Working together with our local community

We believe in supporting our local schools and students, a number of our senior management team have undertaken a variety of school based activities with the aim to educate students about employment and industry by visiting nursery’s, secondary schools, further and higher education establishments

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What’s my Job?

Head of HR Mark Waine thoroughly enjoyed participating in “

What's my Job?"

a work-related learning event for all the students in Year 10 at The Ramsey College in Halstead, Essex. The aim of this event was to give the students an insight into the wide range of careers open to them, to illustrate what it takes to achieve at this level and to provide an opportunity for the Students to ask questions.

Mark has also participated in a number of other educational activities; one of his most memorable was giving a “bob the builder” talk to four year old children at a local nursery.

In addition to participating in career events at local schools, Mark has committed to a mentoring programme with a student at Anglia Ruskin University studying for a degree in Human Resource Management.

Mock Interviews

With three school age children of his own, Director Andy Parton fully understands the importance of education and business working together to support young people within the community and regularly gives time and commitment to schools and colleges across Essex.

In addition to taking part in a “E Buddy” e-mentoring scheme for local students, Andy has recently participated in a mock interview event at Alec Hunter Secondary school Braintree, aiming to help students prepare for employment following education.

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Working together with our local community

Building a working partnership today to ensure a tomorrow for wildlife

The Tamdown Group is a proud corporate member of the Essex Wildlife Trust, the county’s leading conservation charity.

It has more than 35,000 members, manages and protects over 7,250 acres of land on 87 nature reserves and 1 nature park.

The aim of Essex Wildlife Trust is to protect wildlife for the future and the Tamdown Group is active in joining other local companies in putting something back into the local environment now and for future generations.

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Working together with our local community

Mentoring Programme with degree students from Anglia Ruskin University

The Tamdown Group has a close working relationship with its local university One example of this is the Degree students mentoring programme which Tamdown has played a part in for a number of years.

The programme involves a series of one to one sessions with degree students is designed to match students at university with individuals in a relevant job, who make a commitment to help them gain an understanding of their work environment, its culture, its expectations, its demands and even its frustrations.

Employers nationally identify the lack of business awareness among graduates as being a significant barrier to progress.

Addressing this key concern, Anglia Ruskin University's Employer Mentoring Scheme has been developed as a targeted program, giving individual students support and mentoring from a graduate or businesses..

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Mark Waine with his Mentee Hamza Babar (second year civil engineering degree student)