For the 4th year running Gelder Group have supported St Barnabas Hospice in collecting Christmas trees for recycling. Our team collected over 70 trees on Saturday 7th January which will now be taken to wood chipping companies and then sold to raise fund for St Barnabas. We are very proud of the Gelder staff, Toby […]

We were delighted to be able to complete a project for Acts Trust,  Beaumont Manor will house the Lincoln Community Grocery, a low-cost membership food store stocked with surplus food that would have otherwise gone to waste. It will also house a member’s café where they will run our programme of courses aimed at empowering […]

The 20 week schedule get to get the new lighting and ventilation system put in place was a tall order, but our commitment to the Yarborough Leisure Centre was to get them back open for January, we not only met the clients expectation but exceeded them by getting it back open before Christmas. On the […]

In August we announced that Gelder Group had been recognised by the Princess Royal Training Awards team for its outstanding workplace training program. The Awards ceremony took place on Tuesday 6th December 2022 and below is the CEO Steve Gelder MBE FCGI pictured collecting the award. On the award Steve Gelder comments: There has never […]

Luke Jackson, who was appointed Health & Safety Advisor in July has successfully completed his Level 3 NEBOSH qualification in Health & Safety for Construction. Luke works alongside David Ternent our Heath & Safety Manager who is in charge of the safety, health environment, and quality assurance co-ordinating work systems to ensure that working conditions […]

In December 2009 Sam White won Apprentice of the Year and featured in our Winter Newsletter (as seen in the photograph). At the time Sam was an Apprentice Joiner and after completing his course he became self-employed and worked in undertaking Insurance and shop-fitting, until joining a Social Housing Group and working his way up […]

Our environmental officer Simon Blaydes spotted a Bittern which flew by him and landed on the reed bed.  The bittern is a thickset heron with all-over bright, pale, buffy-brown plumage covered with dark streaks and bars, it’s one of the rarest breeding birds in the UK and is a Red List species. A secretive bird, […]

Last week Gelder Group was shortlisted in three categories at the LV= GI Claims Partner Awards. The annual Awards held at the Hilton Bournemouth saw Gelder Group awarded the ‘Investment in People’ Award for our work with apprentices and overall investment into training. Gelder Group have been a working contractor with LV= since 2014, during […]

In 2016, Rick Paton, a Contracts Manager in our Lincoln IRR Department passed away from a brain tumour. In his memory we placed a bench around the lake in which he fished before he passed to raise money for The Brain Tumour Charity. After 6 years the bench had become unstable and needed replacing, and […]

Lee Wilkinson, who has been with the company for 2 years as a Contracts Manager in the Barlborough Office has been appointed Branch Manager of Lincoln Insurance Repair and Renovation Department.  The Lincoln Branch covers areas from Northampton to York and has just under 50 employees who are office based and trades. On the appointment […]