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 […]

It really is great to see the wildlife within our Head Office Environmental Park thriving, the footage from last nights camera shows a glimpse of the activity coming and going from our Owl Tower which was built by Apprentices almost 10 years ago. Every year we have managed to create the right environment for owls […]

The work to install new lighting, ventilation and a new ceiling above the swimming pool at Yarborough Leisure Centre is progressing on schedule, the £500k project will take 20 weeks to complete and will be completed early next year.

Following a summer of diverting drainage runs, installing new roads and general works, upgrading infrastructure building work on the first phase of six homes at Nettleton Fields has commenced. These properties are located on the edge of the beautiful Lincolnshire Wolds, they range from three bedroom bungalows to five bedroom homes and are the most […]

In June Gelder Group adopted 27 chickens from The British Hen Welfare Trust to be rehoused in our bespoke chicken run in the Environmental Park at Head Office. The chickens took to their new life exceptionally well and we have just recorded over 1000 eggs collected from the chickens. Some of the chickens were in […]

The 3200 sq ft extension to the Grove Pet Foods in North Scarle, which is part of Cranswick PLC was recently completed. The extension consisted of a training room, canteen, 1st aid room, changing room and toilets with shower facilities. Paul Cayley, Cranswick Group Construction Manager and Graeme Watson, Group Engineering Director stated they were […]