Gavin Bridge

Managing Director at Galliford Try- Building Southern

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[Gavin Bridge @GavinBridge_]

Excellent handover event at Bloxham Grove Academy! @Gallifordtry were delighted to partner with The Gallery Trust and @educationgovukin. It was an honour to build such a special project which will make a positive difference to the lives of so many local children for years to come

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@gallifordtry Building Southern were delighted to handover the Edenbridge Memorial Health Centre to @NHSKentCHFT. Not only have the team built a high-quality primary care facility, they have also created over £7m worth of social value within the local community and supply chain

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@GallifordTry Building Southern are proud to handover over £2k raised for the @1stEdenbridge Scouts for two outdoor tents. The funds were raised by creating veg planters on site, bake sales and generous donations from our supply chain partners. A huge thank you to all involved

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@GallifordTry Building Southern were delighted to attend the Surrey Festival of Skills careers day, seeing around 1500 students, local charities, community groups and schools. It was a great day and we will no doubt be returning next year! #socialvalue

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Heather Bryant, Regional Community and Social Impact Manager for @gallifordtry won the Community Champion Award at the #ccsawards for her part in an innovative pilot scheme at @HMPHigh_Down providing work experience for prisoners on our live construction site. Well done Heather!

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Heather Bryant, Regional Community and Social Impact Manager for @gallifordtry won the Community Champion Award at the #ccsawards for her part in an innovative pilot scheme at HMP High Down providing work experience for prisoners on our live construction site. Well done Heather!

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Last night @gallifordtry Building Southern won 2 awards at the National @CE_Awards for 'People Development' and 'Value' for our industry leading Construction Mentoring Partnering Scheme at @HMPHigh_Down for @hmpps

Well done Team, so proud of you all and everything we achieved!

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It’s Safety Stand Down week here @gallifordtry Building Southern. Our winter stand down events focused on the important topics of mental health/wellbeing, fatigue, stress, musculoskeletal disorders, noise, and dust. Well done to our teams for delivering these successful events!

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Thank you to everyone who took the time to attend and support our @GallifordTry Building Southern annual supply chain celebration and awards in London on 5 October - we were pleased to welcome over 40 of our Aligned Partners and key supply chain. Congrats to all our winners!

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Today @GallifordTry Building Southern welcomed Dave from HMP Ford who will be working with our Aligned Partner @Halsion on our Worthing project while on ROTL. #ReduceReoffending #SocialValue

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Great day at the Recovery Fest in Stoke Park Guildford! We set up a stall to give an update about the new mental health facility we are building in Chertsey and invited the local community to visit the site, join a Career Ready Workshop we are organising with Recovery College.

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Excellent @GallifordTry Building Southern ‘Meet the Buyer’ event yesterday! By using the new @LocSupplyChain events tool to identify supply chain we were able to make the event really targeted and useful. Thank you to everyone who came along to meet us! #LSCEvents #supplychain

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@GallifordTry Building Southern held our 6-monthly Safety Stand Down 'Going Back to Basics' yesterday. 400+ people across 8 live projects and covered summer working, exclusion zones/falling objects, deliveries/collections, control of dust and service avoidance #SafetyFirst

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@gallifordtry were delighted to host the topping out ceremony at the new mental health inpatient service at St. Peter’s Hospital campus in Chertsey for @sabpNHS - the delicious cakes and sunny weather was a very welcome bonus! #mentalhealth #loveconstruction

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@gallifordry Building Southern volunteers and Macai took part in a charity football match against the prison team @hmpps HMP High Down. Unfortunately, we lost 7-2, however it was a great way to support Mental Health Awareness Week and we can’t wait for a rematch! #oneteam

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@gallifordtry were thrilled to join the @FEBrooklands Careers Fair where we presented to over 30 construction students and offered site visits and work placements. We had a great day speaking to the students and inspire the next generation to join the industry #loveconstruction

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Today we @gallifordtry hosted a Careers in Construction talk and site tour for the young people and staff members from @HMPCookhamWood to our Oasis Secure School project in Rochester and we’re very much looking forward to welcoming these students back for work experience soon

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Our @gallifordtry Building Southern Cornerstone project in Bexley today welcomed students from Woodside Academy as part of Open Doors week. Ashton is really interested in becoming a bricklayer, and Roe Brickwork were on hand to provide a taster session #OpenDoors23 #SocialValue

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Today Galliford Try Building Southern hosted and welcomed our key Aligned Partners to our quarterly Aligned Supply Chain breakfast. We held open and informative discussions on opportunities, subletting of packages, Quality Management improvement and our journey to net zero carbon

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Our Galliford Try Building Southern site team building a new mental health unit in Chertsey were delighted to host a toolbox talk on prostate cancer, in partnership with Panthera Group and @CR_UK and raised over £350! Thank you to all involved in delivering this talk