Charity News

Lanes drainage engineers on a mission to help charity

21/05/2018

The Birmingham City Mission drainage survey, cleaning, and repair team, headed by Amey Site Supervisor Mark Bissell (in the orange jacket) and, to his right facing, Dean Evans, Mark Davies, and Connor Murphy, from Lanes Group, and Andy Morton, from Birmingham City Mission. Drainage engineers from Lanes Group plc have joined other contractors in helping…

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Yummy to intrepid – £25,000 raised for cancer charity

15/03/2018

Big-hearted colleagues working for Lanes Group plc have braved gale-force winds and buzzing clipper blades to raise over £25,000 for Macmillan Cancer Support. Teams and individuals working at depots and offices across the UK for the UK’s largest independent drainage specialist, and sister company UKDN Waterflow (LG) Ltd, contributed to the fund-raising effort. Macmillan Cancer…

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Hiking to the heights for cancer support

16/08/2017

A team of have-a-go-hikers from Lanes Group plc will be challenging their fitness and head for heights by climbing one of England’s highest mountains in aid of charity. The colleagues who all work at the Lanes HQ and operational depot at Eccles, Greater Manchester, will climb Skiddaw, just north of Keswick, in Cumbria, in aid…

Mick achieves highest ambition for charity

09/08/2017

CCTV drainage engineer Mick Bradley realised a life-long ambition and raised hundreds of pounds for a local cancer charity when he reached the highest point in the UK. Mick, who works at the Lanes Group Eastleigh depot, near Southampton, took up the challenge to walk to the top of Ben Nevis in Scotland in aid…

Lanes staff raise thousands for Macmillan

21/04/2017

Teams and individuals working for Lanes Group across the UK have raised over £6,500 for Macmillan Cancer Support. The money has been collected over 12 months for Macmillan which was selected by staff as the Lanes company charity for the year. In total, the amount raised by staff fundraising activities was £6,575.26. Thanks to a…

Teachers and pupils welcome life-saving heart device

12/01/2017

An astonishing 3,000 people, including hundreds of children, are getting enhanced protection from sudden cardiac arrest after Lanes Group donated a heart defibrillator to a Berkshire school. The drainage and asset maintenance specialist has donated the life-saving device to St Mary’s CE Primary School in Slough, Berkshire, which is located next to a Sure Start…