Working with and supporting our local community
Last week 10 of the Kimpton Team completed the two-day Mental Health First Aid England accredited training course to become Mental Health First Aiders! Back in 2022,
Kimpton are proud to welcome seven new apprentices to our team, taking the total number to 17 across the business. We’ve spent the past few years developing our
There’s a huge change taking place in procurement as companies and local government are understanding the benefits of values-led business along with the collective need
It’s been a very busy few weeks for the Kimpton Commercial fit-out team working at Make CIC’s new HQ on Argyle street in Birkenhead and the finish line is now in
FUTURE NOW is Future Yard CIC’s annual two-day celebration of the best emerging new music, building on the legacy of their first festival in 2019. For 2024, we’re proud
You will have to excuse the flowery copy on this one, but we’re buzzing to announce that ACC Liverpool marked this year’s annual World Bee Day by welcoming some new
Last week, we joined Karen Mower at Incredible Edible Knowsley for their annual community action day to celebrate the work they’re doing to support the local community
As Enterprise Advisors, Grace Roberts, Niamh Smith and Matt Breakwell have been working with schools to explain to students the range of opportunities available in
Make CIC, the community interest company that aims to enrich communities through creativity, art, and culture, is undertaking a major expansion in partnership with
Last weekend, 18 team members, friends and family completed the ride around the Wirral to celebrate our 60th year and raise money for the Oddballs Charity. Of the 18
We have always believed in apprenticeships as a route to bring young talent into the construction industry. Since we started in business we estimate that over 100 have
Congratulations to Jamie MacFarlane who was shortlisted for an award at the Salford City College Annual Apprenticeship Awards 2024! Jamie first joined us for work
We have long believed that work experience is a great thing for young people and ourselves. We’re currently welcoming students covering all three tiers of the education
As of today, the Kimpton 60-mile bike ride for 60 years in business is 60 days away! Lee Williams, Kimpton’s Stores Procurement and Logistics Officer has organised a
We had a fantastic night last night celebrating Liverpool City Region’s exceptional entertainment and hospitality businesses at the LCR Tourism Awards 2023, hosted at
We’re constantly banging on about the career opportunities in Engineering so, to celebrate the end of National Apprenticeship Week 2024, we’d like to share Connor
Two of the Kimpton team were delighted to support our client Warrington & Vale Royal College at their ‘Girls in Construction Summit 2024’. Grace Roberts and Niamh
Now in its 22nd year, the Kimpton Cultural Tour has been an annual event since 2003, with only the covid year missing. The format is broadly the same and every year
We recently attended the LSIP – Local Skills Improvement Plan Conference held at Aintree Racecourse. It was an important opportunity for businesses to connect with
Last week Matt Breakwell had the (frankly terrifying) privilege to speak to an assembly of year 10 and 11 students at Pensby High School as part of his role as an
We have reached our target of filling 10% of roles in the company with apprentices. The target was to achieve this by Autumn 2023. For 60 years, as a business, we
If you know any school leavers interested in Engineering and Renewables as a future career, we’re recruiting for two or three young people to join Kimpton on an Industry
We’re absolutely delighted to be finalists in three categories at the Liverpool Chamber Innovation in Business Awards 2023. The awards celebrate those businesses and
Last week, we welcomed 17-year-old Robyn Wilkinson on a work experience placement from West Kirby Grammar School for Girls. Robyn, who’s a year away from sitting her
A team from Kimpton have just completed the Anfield Abseil to raise over £650 for Cash for Kids. Cash for Kids is a grant-giving charity that helps the children that
Kimpton has teamed up with Wirral’s Future Yard CIC. If you don’t know it already, it’s a community music venue in Birkenhead that showcases great local and
We understand that if our industry is going to recruit enough engineers to deliver the UK’s net zero targets, we need to play our part in attracting talent from all
By supporting schools to deliver careers advice we hope to expand the talent pool, ensuring we can attract the brightest talent to join our industry. The challenge
The Charles Thompson Mission in Birkenhead, has been tirelessly serving the community since 1892. Dedicated to alleviating poverty, the mission runs a food bank that
Matt and Grace from the Kimpton team, together with Charlotte Lawrence from Liverpool City Region Careers Hub, hosted Charlotte Goode and Ramat Suleiman from Prenton
Incredible Edible in Knowsley hosted a community action day on Friday, and the Kimpton team were there supporting the work. The community hub aim to be ‘Growing food
Looking after the mental and physical health of our team is mission critical. We often say that our team are our greatest asset and protecting and nurturing that asset
For the third year running, Scott and Steve from the Kimpton were part of the team that collected & recycled over 1400 Christmas Trees around Wrexham, Flintshire,
Kimpton recently spoke at a Business breakfast event with the University of Liverpool Management School and Wirral Chamber of Commerce. The theme was “Demystifying
As part of their role as Enterprise Advisors to the Liverpool City Region Careers Hub, Matt Breakwell and Grace Roberts from the Kimpton team, recently spent the morning
An unsightly gap in a playground area had left teachers needing to keep children away from the windows. The initial solution was both ugly and unsafe. When we saw the
As part of our work on the refurbishment of the Capital Building in Liverpool, we were tasked with the disposal of two Evacuation Chairs. These are chairs specially
Kimpton have been encouraging businesses in the Liverpool City Region to join them in offering work experience and apprenticeships to young people. Matt Breakwell
The intrepid Kimpton team have completed the Lego Walk of Pain in West Kirby, on Wednesday 24th August at Hickory’s Smokehouse. The event, created by UK Firewalk,
What’s the most painful thing in the world? Some would say dentistry work, others would say childbirth, but most would agree that firmly in the top ten of all-time
As specialist M&E Contractors, Kimpton don’t often get asked to provide gardening services but, as part of a reconfiguration of the Capital Building’s atrium
The Kimpton team have been busy again, working with the Estates Department at Liverpool Hope University. Seeing the plight of the people of Ukraine, the Hope Estates
Mental health in the workplace is a big issue. However much we are changing the makeup of our team, we have a majority male workforce and suicide is the biggest killer
In our role as Enterprise Advisers for Liverpool City Region Grace Roberts and Matt Breakwell have been working with Prenton High School for Girls to dispel some of the
The whole Kimpton team contributed food and toiletries to donate to the Charles Thompson Mission. We wrote about them previously here, but their aim is to help men and
The team working on the £5m refurbishment of the Capital Building, recently went over and above to find community schemes and charities that could make use of the
Scott Bennett and Steve Loughran of Kimpton have been busy again, collecting Christmas trees for Nightingale House Hospice. This year, they collected approximately 75
We all know someone affected by cancer. We’ve probably all lost someone to the many variants of the hideous disease. According to figures from Cancer Research UK, 1 in 2
There’s a full day at work and then there’s Keith Marsden’s day at work. Today he’s been working with our good friends at Incredible Edible to extend the irrigation
In this post last year, we shared our Environmental report for the previous 12 months, for the waste we generated at our Bromborough Head office. You can read that here.
On what has to be one of the coldest days in recent years, Steve Loughran, Kimpton Site Supervisor, volunteered to deliver food parcels for the Shaftesbury Youth Club –
Another week, another award for the Kimpton team. This one is the Social Value Award. It’s awarded to businesses in the North West who go over and above to deliver
As part of Industry Week, organised by Wirral Met College and in conjunction with Morgan Sindall Construction, this week we delivered two sessions with current students,
Scott Bennett and Steve Loughran of the Kimpton Contracts team again gave up their weekend to help with the Nightingale House Christmas Tree Collection. It’s an
The Kimpton team have been generous with their time and donations in the run-up to Christmas, with a number of initiatives to have some fun and help those less fortunate
Not to be put off by a lockdown, the Kimpton team pulled together like never before to help those who needed it most when the UK and the NHS in particular, was under
We believe that work experience for a student is only as good as the effort you put into yourself as an employer. We therefore offer genuinely worthwhile Work
Alder Hey Hospital Our Managing Director Richard Kimpton trained for over six months, lost huge amounts of weight in order to take part (and win) a white collar
In a recent project, Lee Williams our storeman/driver organised an U14’s football charity tournament that managed to raise in excess of £600 for the Clatterbridge
We are pleased to announce that we now have a lifesaving defibrillator in our offices, the defibrillator will be shared between ourselves and 3 other companies in
Kimpton Senior Site Foreman Keith Marsden is Running 2017 miles in 2017 to raise funds for Macmillan Cancer Support. Keith, who is a member of Wallasey AC, is hoping
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