News Archive

Tuesday, 8th May 2012
New Offices creating 30 new jobs
Gelder Group has secured a £1.1m contract to build a new office complex in Lincoln that is set to create 30 new jobs. As part of the Lincoln Growth Point initiative, a new building for small to medium businesses (SMEs) will be erected on the unused railway coal yard on Kesteven Street. The building will house seven units for businesses. In addition to the building, the Sincil Dyke path w...
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Friday, 27th April 2012
DIY SOS Presenter Nick Knowles praises Gelder Groups generosity
For the second time in 6 months the Gelder Group have become involved with Nick Knowles and his DIY SOS, this time completing a radical re-design of TESCO “mum of the year” property in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire. Julie Jones is a single mother of three boys who has taken on the upbringing of the five orphaned children of her best friend who sadly died of a brain tumour in 2009, and...
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Friday, 27th April 2012
Apprenticeship Development Manager Adam Ellwood begins teaching Lincoln Christ Hospital School Year 9s
Apprenticeship Development Manager Adam Ellwood has begun teaching his self-created ‘Preparation for Work Readiness’ training course at Lincoln Christ’s Hospital School who booked all 225 year 9 students to be taught. This chargeable course was created due to the lack of high quality application forms and CV’s that the Gelder Group received last year. The idea of the cour...
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Wednesday, 25th April 2012
Major Contracts 1st Dinner Evening at Doddington Hall
Gelder Major Contracts Division held their first dinner evening at the historical Doddington Hall. The successful evening included a private tour for our guests around the Hall followed by a delightful, 3 course meal held in their wedding venue, built by Gelder Group in 2011. Our clients were entertained by speaker, James Birch, owner of the Hall who enlightened them with history abo...
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Thursday, 12th April 2012
Ian Pickwell visits Hackthorn Primary School
Ian Pickwell, Health and Safety Manager for Gelder Group’s Major Contracts division offered to go into his grandson’s class to give a talk to the year, after being told about their latest project. His grandson’s class’s project was that they had to draw a plan of a house and then make their own house using a shoebox. Ian showed them some plans of a house and drew one on...
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Wednesday, 11th April 2012
Property & Business Investment Show
Gelder Group exhibited for the first time at Lincolnshire’s Property and Business Show which was a huge success, hundreds of business people including end user occupiers, intermediaries and professional service providers gathered at the Epic Centre Lincolnshire Showground on Wednesday 28th March for this year’s Lincolnshire Property & Business Investment Show. Hannah Grewcock c...
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Friday, 16th March 2012
Work continues at a fast pace on the new Â£3,000,000.00 school in Scunthorpe
The construction of a new School in Scunthorpe continues as fast as ever. The team are working hard on a complex build in the knowledge that the school has to be completed in the summer ready for the September intake of pupils. Project Quantity Surveyor Robert Porter commented “that it is due to the hard work and effort of both Cliff Meyer (Site Manager) and Gavin Parker (Contracts Manager...
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Wednesday, 14th March 2012
Apprenticeship Development Manager Adam Ellwood & Senior Insurance Claims Manager Louisa Sharpe meet Rt Hon David Miliband MP
Adam Ellwood and Louisa Sharpe were personally invited down to the Congress Centre in London on Monday 12thMarch 2012 to give a formal presentation on Workbase learning and the importance of staff engagement within Gelder Group in connection with Union learn. The key note speaker wasRtHon David Miliband MP who was kind enough to listen to our developments with the Gelder Virtual School, in a...
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Monday, 12th March 2012
Group Virtual School Now Open
The Groups‘Virtual School’ was officially opened on the 18th January 2012 by David Way, Executive Director / Chief Operating Officer for the National Apprenticeship Service (pictured 3rd from right). This new investment is the start of a revolutionary training programme for Gelder Training where children from the surrounding area who are not in mainstream education will attend the ...
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Monday, 27th February 2012
Crawford CEO presents Gelder Team with Team of Champions Cup
Louisa Sharpe and her team were the proud recipients of the latest Gelder Group “Team of Champions” trophy, received for delivery of results beyond expectations. Louisa accepted the trophy which comes with a sum of money for a team event, on behalf of the Groups insurance coordinators. The back up team that have worked tremendously hard throughout 2011, playing a large part in the ...
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Friday, 24th February 2012
Xeric Systems
Xeric’s innovative heat treatment that eliminates bed bugs and their offspring was recently featured on BBC Look North. Xeric, a Gelder Group company, is the heat partner of Ecolab, the world’s biggest pest elimination organisation with worldwide sales of £12 Billion. Bed Bugs are a hot topic at present and a fast growing problem that is about to get much worse. During the...
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Friday, 6th January 2012

A thank you letter signed by both the Prime Minister, David Cameron MP and his coalition Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg MP for the work Gelder Group do with apprentices greeted managing director Steve Gelder on his return from the Christmas break. On receiving the letter, Steve comments “Its great recognition. Around 10% of our staff are apprentices, our training ac...
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