Jet-washing patios, planting stacks of plants and dishing up slices of cake, were all jobs on the menu for more than 60 Futures colleagues, as they swapped their usual day jobs for community projects.
'Futures in the Community' first started as a single day in December 2022, where all our employees left their desks behind to help give back to our customers. This time around volunteers from teams all over the business, including customer services, ICT, assets and finance, swapped their usual jobs of crunching numbers and taking phone calls, to cleaning furniture and tending to plants.
Customers and their neighbours popped along for a chat, free hot drinks and sweet treats in our 'cuppa and cake' mornings at Moulton, Kilsby, Daventry, Heage and Heanor, and saw the transformation of gardens at two nearby community centres.
We’d like to say a special thank you to Travis Perkins in Ripley, who kindly donated various items to help with the different projects, including a new storage unit for the garden of Park Crescent community centre in Heage.
Kate Curley, National Social Housing Account Manager at Travis Perkins said: “Working together with our customers to improve the local communities and provide sustainable improvements to the area is an invaluable part of my job. It's a pleasure to be part of these important community projects that bring so much more than just a physical change to the area. I hope the residents enjoy the improved green space that we all worked together to create.”
