Design of converted laundry to MRI suite at Louth County Hospital

Gelder Group have been appointed as main contractor to transform a former laundry building into a £850,000 MRI suite at Louth County Hospital following a long-running community fundraising appeal. The suite will include a £465,000 MRI scanner, clinical rooms and waiting areas for both outpatients and inpatients. The project will due to be completed by the end of March and it is expected that 8,000 patients a year from Louth and the surrounding rural areas will use the scanner at the hospital, rather than having to travel further afield.

ULHT’s MRI Service Lead Chris Bilton said:

The scanner will provide us with much more detailed and faster scans. It will also help to improve cancer treatment as patients can be scanned earlier, leading to a quicker diagnosis and therefore being able to start treatment sooner.

If you would like more information about this project, please get in touch.

Gelder Group secures contract with City of Lincoln Council

Gelder Group’s Facilities Management & Building Division have secured a contract with City of Lincoln Council to carry out planned and responsive maintenance repairs to the city council’s commercial property portfolio.

The Group is also signed up to the council’s Social Responsibility Charter which has been launched to showcase employers in the city who go above and beyond to support their employees and local community.

Paul Staines, who runs the repair & maintenance side of the business at Gelder comments:

We’ve been working closely with City of Lincoln Council for a number of years and have a great relationship with them, so I’m delighted that we’ve secured this contract. All the work will be carried out using local trades and local suppliers so this is also good news for the city’s economy.

The council’s contract with Gelder Group is for an initial period of two years, with options to extend for a maximum of a further six years.

Linkage Students working in the Environmental Park

Gelder Group Community Vision launched in 2017 set out to ‘Build strong Communities’ has taken another big step towards that goal and is now working with Linkage College.

Linkage is a Lincolnshire based learning disability charity which provides a range of services including a further education college, care, day services, and employment support to help people with learning disabilities get into work. Students from the college have visited Gelder Group Head office over the course of the year and its students, who are studying City and Guilds Practical Horticulture/Skills for Working Life, have been working in the 16 acre environmental park to keep pathways clear, tending the planted areas, planting new bulbs and creating habitats for small mammals and insects.

Helen Spencer, (Horticulture Lecturer/Work Experience Team Leader) from the college commented about the initiative:

We are delighted to be working in partnership with Gelder Group and hope this relationship will continue and develop, I know our students love coming here.

If you would like more information about this collaboration, please get in touch.

The Optimism Advantage

In the wake of Brexit gloom Gelder Group and Streets Chartered Accountants teamed up with motivational speaker and founder of the organisation ‘Live Big’ Stuart Baldwin to deliver an inspiring London event based on ‘The Power of Optimism’.

The event took place at St Martin in the Fields, Trafalgar Square, London and was attended by 100 invited politicians and leaders from the worlds of business, entertainment and sports.

Steve Gelder, Gelder Group CEO comments:

I just felt like some of our customers and associates seemed a bit low.  Everyone I speak to is sick to death of Brexit, as well as our politician’s petty arguments and inability to work together as a team.  We therefore joined forces with Streets, hired a great venue and got Stuart to give us all a pep-talk based around ‘optimism’ in an effort to cheer us all up.  We achieved that as well as lifted the profile of our respected companies.

Stuart Baldwin has a remarkable ability to galvanise and lift the spirits of virtually any audience and has teamed up with Invest Gainsborough & Team Lincolnshire to host a similar free event in Gainsborough on 18^th November 2019.

Networking at the Live Big event.

Tickets to this event can be secured by emailing placemanager@west-lindsey.gov.uk.

Littleborough Lane, Marton

Gelder Living has secured a further development site. This latest acquisition is on land off Littleborough Lane, Marton where it will develop 9 bungalows for sale on the open market.

Despite an ageing population and high demand, just 2,418 bungalows were built in the UK during 2018. In line with our Vision of ‘creating high quality affordable homes that inspire communities’ Gelder Living intends to improve on that statistic.

Gelder Living currently has 49 properties under construction at Kirton-in-Lindsey, Knaith, and Gainsborough with a further 7 sites and 70 plots under consideration. For more information about Gelder Living, please get in touch.

Commencing work at Grayingham Road, Kirton in Lindsey

Work has started on site at Grayingham Road, Kirton Lindsey where the company is delivering 16 new properties in a joint venture with housing provider Ongo.

The £2m development consists of 6 semi-detached two bedroom houses and 10 two bed semi-detached bungalows.

The first properties will be ready for occupation during the Autumn of 2020 and a large proportion of the work will involve the further development of the Groups growing intake of career College Construction Apprentices.

The Fourth Rick Paton Memorial Charity Match took place on 8^th September 2019. It was a cool start to the Day with Gary Cox even having to scrape ice from the windscreen! Eight ‘’coiled springs’’ were in high spirits full of banter as per usual! The draw was tense (LOL) with the low numbered pegs and Rick’s peg being the hot favourites. The efforts the travelling Barbarian’s made, battling fire,  ice and wind paid off with all three gents drawing very favourably and saw Big Alan sat comfortably in Rick’s Peg.

Start time was called early, such was the excitement to get fishing with the War Cry coming from defending champion, Gary Cox.

Yet again the sky line looked like a scene from Braveheart with a torrent of feeders, leads, floats, bait and carbon fibre poles being unleashed. Dave Troop’s feeder was so big , the splash resembled a Snap On Tool Cabinet going in. The suave as ever Jim Smith, clearly not being happy with how deep his swim was and was raising the bottom gradually throughout the match with Boilies, Tiger Nuts and Kilos of particles. Dave Wass was off to a good start with a flurry of small fish, at least securing some valuable weight early doors. The match continued at a steady pace with fish steadily coming throughout. The fish seeming to push out to the deeper water as the match went on. Ex Gelder employee – Andy Wright putting in another solid shift and produced a real gem of mirror carp, just showing the quality of fish we have in the Lake. A hairy battle with an unseen power house was a highlight, with Big Al having to use pure skill to free a large Carp from the weeds in the dying seconds of the 3.5 hour match!

Bright conditions made the fishing difficult but the weigh in saw plenty of fish of all sizes and colours returned safely.

The highly skilled Barbarians secured third and second place, Big Al taking third and winning biggest fish of the Match, Phil the power Middleton putting a quality bag of hard earned silvers and carp together with the consistency he is well renowned for. Bald Blaydes took first place with a mixed bag of Carp and Orfe caught from various other pegs around the Lake (LOL). Jane Blaydes made a Chocolate cake to mark the occasion that was won in the raffle by Top Rod – Jim Smith.

As always the real winner was the event itself with 65.00 pounds raised for the Brain Tumour Charity.

Thank you to all that attended the match, including the staff and visitors, in particular the Paton family who very kindly gifted a bottle of Champagne for the largest fish of the Day.

In 2014, with the help of HRH Princess Anne we said we’d create a brand called ‘Gelder Living’ that would develop ‘High quality affordable homes that improved communities’.  This is now a reality with the first 9 bungalows hitting the market at Heynings Close, Knaith Park in Gainsborough.

The properties are low maintenance and come with generous garages, ample parking, PV electric solar panels, underfloor heating and fully fitted carpets. Pygott & Crone property agents are the marketing agent. For more details contact newhomes@pygott-crone.com

For more details contact newhomes@pygott-crone.com

Lincoln Social Responsibility Charter

The Lincoln Social Responsibility Charter has been launched by City of Lincoln Council to showcase star employers in Lincoln who go above and beyond to support their employees and the local community. Gelder Group have now successfully accredited for the scheme by registering the huge number of socially responsible activities they carry out every year.

Councillor Ric Metcalfe, Leader of City of Lincoln Council, said:

We are delighted to introduce the Social Responsibility Charter to award our role model employers who go the extra mile to reduce inequality and enhance Lincoln as a place to work.

We’ve seen organisations doing all sorts of positive activities, including paying the Living Wage and granting leave for employees to engage in community activities around the city.

This charter is not only of benefit to the employee, but the employer receives a host of benefits such as a happy workforce leading to increased staff retention and happy customers, making it a fantastic opportunity.

All you have to do is sign up on our website and demonstrate what positive activities you are undertaking as an organisation.

We strive to become a more socially responsible city and look forward to welcoming more organisations on board.

The Gelder Group have dozens of initiatives across its group which directly benefit staff and the communities they work in. On the accreditation Gelder Group CEO commented:

Our Vision 2020 goal is to be ‘the company to work for’ and also ‘build strong communities’, I’m delighted to be amongst the other brilliant local construction companies who have signed up for the initiative. I hope we can all learn from each other and good practice.

To learn more about our vision please visit our Vision 2020 page.

The shortlist for the East Midlands Property Dinner Awards have been revealed and Gelder Group along with Turner & Townsend, Maber Architects, Nottinghamshire Fire & Rescue Service have been nominated in the category of Construction Project of the Year 2019 for the Newark Fire Station. The black tie extravaganza takes place on Thursday 12 September 2019 at De Vere East Midlands Conference Centre, Nottingham.

Ian Griffin, Insider business editor, said:

The high number of submissions for the Construction Project of the Year and Property Deal of the Year highlights the appetite for major development and big transactions in the East Midlands, despite concerns over Brexit.

Gelder Group CEO commented:

We are delighted to have been nominated in this category, the whole team who worked on this project deserve to be praised and I’m sure they will enjoy the evening and hopefully pick up the award.

Newark Fire Station