Community Engagement

Volunteering Programme

In September we launched our Volunteering programme across the business. This programme is one of the pillars of our Sustainability strategy, and formalises some of the good work that CML have a reputation for carrying out as a matter of course without necessarily recording it.

During the last year, we were actively involved in ‘Give Construction a Try‘, a community interest company that exists to promote construction as a career to schoolchildren in areas of extreme deprivation and in the last twelve months have engaged with over 300 school leavers who would otherwise be likely to be designated as Not in Education, Employment or Training (NEET).

Working with training providers

CML also work with local colleges, universities and training providers to ensure that the curriculum offered reflects industry needs, and are represented on the Employer Advisory Boards at Leeds College of Building and Leeds Beckett University.

Additionally, Leeds College of Building has a CML employee as a Director and Governor, and during the last academic year we exceeded our FE & HE engagement target of 10 days per year.

Our staff take part in, and raise funds for:

• Mental Health week;
• Wellbeing Wednesdays;
• International Women in Engineering Day;
• Mens Health Week;
• International Nurses Day;
• Macmillan Cancer Support;
• Motor Neurone Disease Association;
• Railway Children Charity;
• Time to Talk Day.