Supporting St Basils this Christmas with a shoebox appeal

Over the last two months we have been busy purchasing and donating supplies for St Basils’ Christmas shoebox appeal.

We’re taking another look at ‘Living History – Don’t time fly when you’re having fun in Nechells!’, the book created by members of the Nechells POD.

Last week, the local residents of the POD bestowed a copy of their very own published book called ‘Living History – Don’t time fly when you’re having fun in Nechells!’  It is a beautiful compilation of memories about growing up in the local area and took nearly two years to complete!

As everyone knows, supporting the local community is at the heart of McDermotts. For the last three years, every Wednesday afternoon a member of staff from Head Office spends an hour with members of the POD – the local community centre for Nechells.

We were delighted to attend the Fosse Park autumn jobs fair at the Hilton hotel in Leicester on Friday which was held as part of the ‘Recruit Fosse Park’ campaign which is a free recruitment programme set up by the owners of Fosse Park, The Crown Estate.

Last week we hosted a golf day at Walmley Golf Club to celebrate our 25th Anniversary.

Earlier this month Bobby Friel, Joe McDermott and Kevin Hogan took on the 1,000km Monkey Run in Peru.

The 25th anniversary celebrations continued on Saturday when sixteen of McDermotts’ bravest staff travelled to Wales to take on the Velocity 2 zip wire challenge.

McDermotts was founded in August 1994, so to celebrate our birthday month we organised daytime celebrations for our colleagues across all of our sites and head office.

This years’ Summer Celebration was an extra special one, marking 25 years of McDermotts.