all of these hire companies gave their equipment for use to us for no charge to clear the rubbish from the bottom of E Field.

Each of these companies gave their time and equipment at the weekends, they asked the drivers to work at weekends to deliver the equipment us and ensured it was unloaded and checked before I was let loose on it.

Hewden started the ball rolling by giving us a JCB Telehandler for the first two weekends of the work to make a start. This was followed by M&J who provided a Dumper to move the rubbish to the car park for removal. Again Blythewood came to the rescue and aslo gave us two weekemds use of a very big 6 tonne dumper. CW Hire provided us with a Bobcat which was excellent for filling the skips and moving stuff quickly around what was fast becoming more like a building site each weekend.

We were extremely well looked after by the fantastic services provided by Select Plant Hire. Dominic Daly and his team proved to be and absolute God send to us. They provided at least five weekends of equipmnet, Dumpers, JCB Backhoe, Roller and the greatest provision of all was the driver Phil. Withiout Phil I think I would still be stuck at the bottom of  E Field swearing at a big yellow JCB. Phil was with us for three weekends and did everything in his power to clear the site and get it tidy.

Please click on each of the companies names above to find out more about them and the services the provide, maybe we can all help each other as you never know when you may need a skip or a JCB.

Once we started work on all of our projects there were a lot of companies who helped us that would have gone un-noticed as their donations of products may not have been seen by everybody. Some products were used on the rubbish clearance project such as chainsaws and files, other products have been used in the Trading Hut refurbishment. So just beacuse you did not see a big dumper with a logo on the side of it does not mean that we did not get help in other areas. 

We are very thankful to all of the companies who have given their time to help us. Each of these companies has given their product for free. When aksed to donate a product the marketing team from these companies were happy and willing to assist.

Husqvarna provided the chainsaw needed to clear back the trees in order to get the diggers in to move the rubbish away.

Oregon provided the safety helmet and gloves along with filing kits chains and oil to keep the saw going on what turned out to be a very busy schedule

McDonalds

Pizza Hut

Tesco

Sainsbury

Marks and Spencer

KFC

all provided luches for the wrok party teams each weekend.

MK Electrics provided the Sockets and fittings for the Hut Re-furb. Some of the product they supplied has not yet been fully released on the open market. Their new range of Masterseal Plus weatherproof range will be insatlled to part of the re-furb.

Marshall Tufflkex who provided the PVC Conduit and Fittings into which we have run the cabling to offer protection to all circuits being installed.

Irish Driver Harris who provided some of the cabling required

Prysmian who provided the rest of the cabling for the Trading Hut Re-furb. The cables they supplied form part of thier Afumex range - Afumex means  that in the event of a fire does not spread the flame, that it's self extinguishing and does not produce harmful smoke or acid fumes - all these effects happen with 'normal' pvc cables and sometimes with cables described as 'low smoke' but Afumex will not make the fire any worse than it already is and helps people evacuate quickly and safely from the fire. The UK are leading the way in Europe and our range of Afumex is setting a new higher standard

Steelmart who provided the corrugated roofing sheets. These roofing sheets are 16 foot long and a metre wide and will now give us a fully waterproof roof to the old hut. The sheeting is strong and will last for many years. We woudl like thank Steelmart for getting theses sheets to us all the way from Shropshire.

Builder Depot who provided the plywood sheeting for the roof which we have laid beneath the corrugated sheets to form the base to strenghten then roof.

Wickes put their name to our project by kindly donating 2 ton of sand and 300kg of cement so that we could lay a screed floor in the old trading hut.

Granfix Products helped us to get the floor levelled off by providing us with levelling compound and bonding agent. We are thankful for their help and recomend their self levelling compound as it does what it says on the tin.

Arco also donated some of their floor safety paint to ensure that we have a non slip and washable floor. I would like thank Neil Jowsey for arranging one of his team to visit us and find the correct product.

Hombase also helped to make our old hut more of a home by very kindly providing us with kitchen units, taps, sink and counter top so that we ensure that our community teams have and area for rest and welfare facilities.

Having spent the last few weeks putting together the old trading hut and getting the Kitchen units ready I was grateful for the assistance provided by Hyco Manufacturing in providing us with two under sink water heaters. These units will be fitted to both of our sinks and will finally provide hot water to the taps.

H+H Celcon have come to the front in supporting us by providing the blocks needed to build the toilets.

Plumbworld very kindly have supplied us with the toilets pans, cisterns and basins for both our ladies and gents facilities.

We would like to thank Scott Morris and the team at Plumbworld for helping out.

The sand and cement to build the walls has been kindly donated by Roy and the team at Buildbase New Southgate.