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Six colleagues from Lanes Group plc have joined nearly 1,000 others in a giant sleep out to raise money for homeless young people. They braved wintry weather, wind and heavy rain to spend the night sleeping on the hard ground at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in East London. The Sleep Out was one of…
When you have won a world dance title the next task is to retain it, and that is just what Lanes Group plc bid team assistant Shannon Whitehead aims to achieve. In April 2019, she was head coach of the England adaptive abilities pom team that won world championship gold in Orlando, Florida, USA. Now,…
Drainage engineers working across the West Midlands are flushing out support for Unblocktober, the world’s first awareness month for protecting the UK’s sewers and seas. The campaign is challenging the British public to make small changes to their kitchen and bathroom habits for the whole calendar month of October to establish new routines that will…
Drainage and wastewater specialist Lanes Group plc has become the first service provider in the water utility industry to support its staff by using trauma risk management. The process, known as TRiM, originated in the Royal Marines and was used to assess battlefield trauma. Outside the military, it is most commonly used to support staff…
An elderly man has praised Lanes drainage engineer Michael Roberts for assisting him after he fell at home and could not get up. Michael, who works at the Lanes Group plc Leeds depot, had been mobilised to clear a blocked toilet when he found the customer had collapsed. He said: “I got to the property…
At Lanes Group, we believe our talented team of drainage engineers are doing amazing work across the country – which is why we’re thrilled that a group of Lanes engineers recently got to make their TV debut, courtesy of ITV1’s documentary series Sewer Men! The incredible opportunity saw a camera crew following our intrepid Lanes…
Paddlers from Lanes took to the water as 40 rafts made a splash for a campaign to provide clean water and toilets in two African towns. Hundreds of people took part in Thames Water’s annual charity raft race on the River Thames in Reading, Berkshire. The water company is seeking to raise £2million for Water…
A team of 22 Lanes Group plc colleagues have completed a night hike up the highest mountain in England and Wales to raise money for company charities. The night owl mountaineers reached the summit of Snowdon in North Wales in time to see the sun rise after a four-hour climb. They hope to raise a…
