Charity News
Zoe Renshaw has won a prestigious national award for her selfless voluntary work by being a lion, a frog, an elf – and a whoopee cushion! In the last five years, the Lanes Group bid manager has spent many hours of her spare time helping a number of community groups, and is always willing to…
Lanes Group’s annual charity fundraising campaign has raised over £17,000 for Cancer Research UK. A final totalling up of all donations made has shown that hundreds of staff, plus their families and friends, raised £8,500.10 for the charity during 2015. When combined with Lanes Group’s pledge to match the money raised by staff, the total…
Hard-paddling raft racers from Lanes Group plc have finished second in a Thames Water charity race – despite a crash on the start line. A Lanes Group team was taking part for the first time in the annual Thames Water raft race on the River Thames in Reading in aid of WaterAid. A total…
Intrepid Lanes Group rafters are appealing for sponsors as they prepare to take on all-comers in a Thames Water raft race – paddling a craft made from recycled sewer repair materials. It is the first time that Lanes Group has entered the annual Thames Water raft race, which takes place on Thursday 7 July 2016,…
Lanes Group has been commissioned by leading construction contractor Laing O’Rourke to carry out drainage surveys and cleaning work at the UK’s newest NHS cancer treatment centre. The company’s drainage engineers have carried out CCTV camera surveys and high pressure jetting at the £160 million cancer centre, located at Guy’s Hospital in central London. When…
Lanes Group jetting engineer John Addison has taken the plunge for the RSPCA in a swimming challenge in memory of the pet dog he called his best mate. John, who has worked for the Lanes Preston depot in Bamber Bridge, Preston, for four years, has completed the 100×100 swimming challenge at his local public pool…
Hundreds of staff have contributed to a record total for the latest Lanes Group annual charity campaign. Lanes employees responded wonderfully to the challenge and raised £4,061 and 10p for Cancer Research. As Lanes Group pledged to match all staff donations, pound for pound, the total raised during 2014 was £8,122.20, which is the best…
Lanes engineers have put their jet vacuumation technology to a very special use – emptying a ‘bath of baked beans’. They vacuumed up the beans at the Holiday Inn Warrington on Thursday (June 19) after General Manager Anthony Milligan had spent the whole day sitting in them in the hotel foyer. He raised over £500…
