Operation Easter Eggstravaganza
Apr 11, 2012You’d think Easter would bring a little light relief to the busy site teams working on the Salix Homes sites, with a few days off to give the teams a chance to recharge their batteries and fill up on Easter goodies. But before they closed down their sites, they had one major task to complete… ‘Operation Easter Eggstravaganza’.
Armed with 300 Easter Eggs, Resident Liaison Officers Garry Holt and Michelle Bailey delivered the chocolatey goodies to children on the Duchy estate. Salix Project Officer Daren Wright came along to lend a hand “it was great to see the delight on the faces of the families when we called, it’s the little acts that they don’t expect that mean so much”.
Meanwhile, across town, lead Resident Liaison Officer Adam Berry, along with Site Operative Lee Barham, played Easter Bunny to every household in Black Friar Court.
Residents were truly delighted with the Easter act of goodwill, and the site teams can now have that well earned break!
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Emanuel Whittaker shortlisted for the CCI North West Regional Construction Awards 2012
Mar 29, 2012The Centre for Construction Innovation has revealed the finalists for the prestigious annual North West Regional Construction Awards
From over 150 nominations for the ten categories, Emanuel Whittaker are delighted to have been shortlisted in two categories, the Contractor of the Year and SME of the Year awards.
The winners will be revealed at the Awards Ceremony at The Palace Hotel, Manchester on Thursday 31 May 2012.
Roy Stewart, Operations Director at the Centre for Construction Innovation, said: “The calibre and range of entries gets better year on year, the previous five years have been a huge success; with past winners going on to achieve national accolades. I have no doubt that this year’s awards will, once again, prove that the North West stands at the forefront of the construction industry”.
Emanuel Whittaker proud sponsors of the Women in Construction Awards
Mar 15, 2012
Emanuel Whittaker were proud to sponsor and present the ‘Lawyer of the Year’ Award at this years Women in Construction Awards.
The Women in Construction Awards, now in its sixth year, provides a showcase for the brightest and the best female achievers in the housebuilding and wider construction industries. The Lawyer of the Year is a new award category being celebrated this year, demonstrating the breadth of careers open to women in the industry.
The award was presented to Lucy Worrall of Croftons Solicitors LLP, seen here collecting her award from Emanuel Whittaker’s Partnerships Manager, Rukhsana Nabi.
Southway residents celebrate 10,000 home improvements
Mar 8, 2012
Southway Housing Trust have completed over 10,000 Internal and External home improvements to their homes and celebrated this milestone with a raffle for tenants sponsored by their home improvement contractors who have played a major part in carrying out the works.
A group of tenants and representatives of the Tenant Associations who have been actively involved in consultation and attending Consultative and Customer Service Improvement Groups were present to mark this event.
Rukhsana Nabi of Emanuel Whittaker joined the Chair of the Southway Board, Tony Parkinson, Chief Executive Karen Mitchell and Directors Jane Gant and Ray Smith, together with representatives of partner contractors Bramall Construction, Manchester Working and Wates Living Space in the celebrations. The contractors kindly donated prizes, which will be raffled in the next edition of Southway Stories, a quarterly newsletter for Southway tenants and leaseholders.
Dorothy gets a birthday surprise
Mar 6, 2012
Dorothy Bailey of Black Friar Court got more than she bargained for when she was asked to leave her flat for the day to allow essential asbestos removal works to be carried out.
Lead Resident Liaison Officer, Adam Berry, noticed that it was Dorothy’s 85th birthday on the day of her works. In an effort to make the day a little special for her, Adam arranged a bit of a surprise. He kitted out the Respite Flat with balloons and bunting, bought a birthday cake and presented Dorothy with a birthday card. When Dorothy thought it couldn’t get any better, Adam popped out to get Dorothy some lunch – her favourite – pudding and chips!
Dorothy and Adam spent the day together talking about her experiences over the years. Dorothy has lived in Blackfriars Court for 39 years, so she has seen many changes. Despite her time within the block, she was still very apprehensive about the works. Adam told Dorothy about his plans to hold Reiki sessions, which might help relieve her anxieties about the forthcoming works. Dorothy loves the idea – and was the first to sign up!
Dorothy’s grand daughter and son-in-law were also invited to celebrate her birthday, but were unable to come along. But when Dorothy’s grand-daughter, Caroline, heard about Adam’s little act of kindness, she was moved to tears, and sent in a lovely e mail to thank him…
“Hey Adam… can I just start with saying YOU are AMAZING!!!!!!!
You have made one little old lady VERY happy!! She’s actually looking forward to having the work done on the flat now so she can go over there to see you!!! ha.. (she was dreading it before).
You made her feel so special on her birthday and for that we are all truly truly grateful!!! She said you couldn’t do enough for her, she loved her cake, her flowers, her balloon and she said you even went out early to get her a chippy dinner!! She felt like a mini celeb ha..
I love you for making her feel so special as she is a very special lady to us. Just wish I could have joined in fun too I would have loved that, sounded great. You actually make me feel really emotional on how kind you’ve have been. You’ve put a right little spring in her step (and walker ha).
I just needed to stress how not just me, our whole family appreciate your time and effort in making her feel so comfortable because the reality is you don’t have to, you could go and do your job and leave and not give it a second thought really as I’m sure a ot of people do. So it just means so much that you care, but not because you have to but because you actually genuinely do and THAT is the difference!! We wanted her up here with us whilst it was going on, but she’s still so independent that she wanted to be at home and do her own thing and so she should but now were happy she’s happy.
Everyone should know what a fantastic job you are doing!! Especially when they are your grandma or older relatives you want everyone to treat them like you would, with love and care and that is exactly what you are doing!! So keep up the good work.
Ooh and I think she’s quite excited about the reiki too although I do not think she’ll ever pronounce it correct!
Again thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!!!!”
Caroline