We held cake sales, charity football tournaments, ran The Wolf Run, Charity Golf Event and rounded up the year with our first Charity Gala. Not only did we hit our target, we smashed it raising £12,137.02p for these very worthy causes. A huge thank you to all that got involved.

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We wish them every success in their new roles.

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It has been a great couple of months for Team MyPad having been awarded 2 more Bricks Awards for Site Management by the LABC.

A huge well done to Tom Cook of Dove Garage and Jimmy Kram of Dovecote Lane for being recognised for their quality of workmanship and site management

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Anya Lyons joins us as Assistant Partnerships Manager to complement our Land and Planning Department, and Joe Coffey is coming on board as a Senior Site Manager, leading our new development at Oakleys Road.

Additionally, Nicola Evans joins us as Senior Engineer, strengthening our engineering team with her extensive experience. Elliot Rowbotham takes on the role of Site Manager, bringing his dedication and skills to our on-site operations.

We wish them all the best in their new roles.

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Our Team will present to a judging panel on June 26th with the winners to be announced at the CN Specialists awards ceremony on 7th September at the Hilton London Metropole. These awards celebrate outstanding achievements by specialist contractors and we are delighted to be in the running for this prestigious award…

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Known in the industry as The Bricks, their full name is The LABC Warranty Bricks Site Recognition Awards and we won one in January “for the consistent quality of workmanship and site management” at our Earls Court site in Carlton, Nottingham.

Not to be out done, our site team at Dove Garage at Ashbourne was also recognised with a Brick in February.

The Bricks Site Recognition Award winners are chosen every month and are then further shortlisted at the end of the year, when only the best of those sites will be rewarded with The Bricks annual award trophy, one of the construction industry’s most prestigious awards.

As well as standards of workmanship and overall management of the site, the assessment for The Bricks also includes health and safety matters, general tidiness and inspection outcomes.

“We’d be delighted to receive The Bricks Site Recognition Award from LABC Warranty for just one site,” said Operations Director, Dave Holland, “so to be shortlisted in two months out of two is a brilliant achievement. I’m especially pleased for our staff and contractors working on these sites as this is a recognition of their hard work, professionalism and expertise.”

Sarah Sheppard, Technical Director at LABC Warranty, said: “It takes skill, commitment and a dedication to quality of construction for a site to receive The Bricks Site Recognition Award. Nothing pleases my team and I more than to see developments meet and maintain such high standards.”

If you’d like to find out more, the LABC website is here.

https://www.labc.co.uk/

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While James was at The Quadrant, everyone who was in the office that day gathered for a team photograph and the result is included here (as well as on the Our team page of the website).

What looks like a kitchen (and IS a kitchen most of the time) is also our entertaining and networking area – so it made sense to get the twelve of us together around the big marble island. We’re not going to name names but this shot includes someone who is involved at MyPad at each stage, from land to living.

The Technical department is where it all starts:

Planning – these are the people who suss out the potential for new community housing sites and then work with our partners and local authorities to ensure that all the permissions are in place to go ahead.

Design – we work with architects and partners to ensure that our houses and apartments are ideal to become the homes of the future.

Engineers – our work isn’t just about bricks and mortar, it can also be about surveying, steel structures and problem solving. That’s where the MyPad engineers get involved.

Buying – big construction projects rely on having everything the builders need, in the right quantities, in the right place and when they need it. That’s where the procurement/buying team come in – they’re fiendish negotiators on price too so that our homes come in on budget at great value.

Then there’s Operations, which covers the construction side of things, once planning, design and engineering have done their stuff.

The people from Operations included on this team photograph are just the tip of the iceberg as a lot of our practical building and construction work is sub-contracted to specialists. In all, we work with more than 30 different sub-contractors for everything from plumbing and electrics to roofing and windows.

Many of them have been working with MyPad for several years so it’s a bit of a shame that we couldn’t include them on the photograph as they’re very much part of our team too.

Finally, there’s the Commercial department, which includes accounts and payroll as well as sales and marketing and other commercial functions. Once our properties are sold – whether to community housing partners or to private buyers – they’re all set for living, the last link in the MyPad land to living chain.

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Padel (or Paddle) is a favourite – it seems to fit the company name!

The game is a hybrid of squash and tennis played with a perforated racket – no strings attached. According to an article in The Guardian in February, there are already more people playing padel than tennis in Spain, Portugal and Sweden so we’re right on trend.

Decathlon, the sports retailer, sells all the kit and says its popularity has “come from nowhere” and it could “become the next big UK participation sport.” The big advantage over tennis is that you can pick it up quite easily and get to a level where you can play a good game. And the walls of the court mean there’s less running after the ball too!

If you’d like to know more, there’s a whole area on the Lawn Tennis Association website just about padel.

https://www.lta.org.uk/play/ways-to-play/padel/

As well as the padel teams, a group of us use the gym in the building on a regular basis and there’s a boxercise class on a Wednesday that some of us have got involved with too. It all helps us get to know each other outside of work, make connections and build the team.

STOP PRESS: A few of us will be running (or crawling) The Wolf Run at Stanford Hall in Leicestershire at the end of June – and we’re expecting to get VERY muddy as well as exhausted. If you’d like to sponsor our fundraising in aid of Prostate Cancer UK, we’ve a Crowdfunding page here.

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