Bastows: truly Making London Beautiful

We have today had a wonderful message from Julian Maslinski, Chair of the Westminster Tree Trust. We have supported the work of the Trust to plant trees in areas of London in desperate need of greenery.

As part of the latest tree planting initiative, 53 trees have been planted in Weymouth Street, W1, which crosses Hallam Street, where 40 trees were planted in 2009.

This follows our work with Julian and his colleagues to plant trees at a SW1 primary school in 2009, which we hear are thriving thanks to the children at the school who have learnt so much about the different types in place that they have adopted responsibility for their care.

Bastows are proud to support the scheme by donating trees, and delighted to work with the Trust to truly help to Make London Beautiful.

Audit Day

Well, the (actually very nice) auditor has been here at the Site Office, and has now gone off to inspect the sites. The meet seemed to go very well, and so now all we can do is a little reflection on what we might improve upon, and await the scores, George Dawes...

Ready, set... GO!

Busy gearing up for not one but THREE site audits tomorrow by the Considerate Constructors Scheme (http://www.ccscheme.org.uk/) with whom we register the majority of our sites.

As winners of a Gold and two Silver Awards, and nominated for two more this year, you'd think the pressure would be on to achieve the high standards we've set previously.

Luckily, being us, being conscientious, being aware of our impact of our work and having systems in place makes it stress-free... well, relatively. There's always the challenge of what we do that was better than before...