UK charities’ £30,000 windfall as BAM celebrates 140 years
Over thirty UK charities are set to receive windfalls of €1,000 to mark the 140 years anniversary of Royal BAM Group. The UK charities were nominated by employees of Royal BAM Group’s UK companies: BAM Nuttall and BAM Construct UK. Among the UK charities to benefit are CRASH, the construction industry’s charity for homeless people of which BAM is a Patron, the Alzheimer’s Society, Childline, and Hands around the World.
Royal BAM Group, the European construction, civil engineering and property enterprise, started 140 years ago as a small carpentry workshop in the Netherlands. Today, the Group has 27,000 employees and an annual turnover of €9 billion. There are 28 BAM companies operating in Europe and internationally on presitigous projects such as the new stadia in South Africa for the Worldcup 2010.
Francesca Roberts, Chief Executive of CRASH, said ‘CRASH is absolutely delighted to receive this donation which will be used to help improve accommodation and facilities for homeless people. I’d like to compliment Royal BAM Group on celebrating its 140 years so imaginatively and appropriately in the current tough economic climate.’ Royal BAM Group made a total of 140 donations of €1,000 each to charities all over Europe. The successful charities were drawn from a pool of 1300 nominations put forward by employees in the various Royal BAM Group companies.
