Social Value

More than just building

At Halsall we are committed to engaging with the local community and responding to social, environmental and economic issues across all aspects of our work before the work starts on site. 

Our effective communication process ensures that all individuals and stakeholder groups are fully informed and can provide feedback, ensuring we minimise as much disruption to local communities as possible. 

We aim to engage with everyone within close proximity to our projects. Some of our previous activities include visiting schools to raise awareness of health and safety and taking pupils on site visits. 

We stay true to what drives us and ensure that our efforts are driven by the passion and commitment to ethical change of our people.

The Considerate Constructors Scheme

 The Considerate Constructors Scheme (CCS) is a non-profit-making, independent organisation set up by the construction industry to improve its image by striving to promote and achieve best practice under five key areas:

All of our sites are registered with the scheme. We take pride in achieving excellent scores and are regularly awarded performance beyond compliance certificates. You can see an example of this at the bottom of the page.
Supporting the Local Community

We are committed to investing locally and building strong, collaborative relationships with the local community. We actively use local labour and materials wherever possible on all of our projects. We are proud of our heritage as a long-standing employer in our local community and support young people starting their careers by offering structured apprenticeships, internships, and trainee and graduate roles. 

As well as employing locally, we sponsor local sports teams and have been involved in local charitable causes and events. Most recently we hired an ice cream van for a local street party in Bristol and again for the children of Windrush Primary School in Witney. 

Our most unique community support experience was with the Hereford and Worcester Fire and Rescue Service. They made the most of our tower crane on our Droitwich site. It’s no surprise that the Fire and Rescue service don’t get too many opportunities to practice a tower crane emergency rescue, so they arrived in the their full uniform and did just that. We were more than happy to allow them to use our site for such an important training activity.

Halsall Cheque Presentation at Merriott Squash Club Nov 16th 2021 copyright Neil Phillips
Added Value

We ensure we add value everywhere we can. We focus on maintaining our robust relationships which can be demonstrated through our continuous repeat business we see year on year. In numbers, 70% of our projects were either from repeat clients or recommendations. 

As a regional principal contractor and developer, our strength is our sub-contractor base and supply chain in the areas we operate. We build firm relationships with companies around and throughout the region to allow us to deliver quality consistently. 

We regularly implement the use of off-site manufacture, which aids in reducing waste, lowering our environmental impact of transportation and speeding up programme, to ensure we are minimising disruption to residents, businesses, schools and all individuals that are in close proximity to any of our sites. 

We take our responsibility of being a neighbour whilst on site seriously. We understand development is disruptive and we aim to minimise this for those around us. Engagement with the community is undertaken throughout the development process. We aim to engage with everyone within close proximity to our projects. Some of our previous activities include visiting schools to raise awareness of health and safety and taking pupils on site visits, attending careers events and even donating our NHS hoarding banners and a happiness rainbow bear to young girl with autism after her love of the illustration and rainbows.

Aurora and Bear, NHS Murial Patchway, 28th Oct 2021copyright Neil Phillips
Employment Skills Plan - Plymouth Stand 8
Our People
Continuous Professional Development

We employ talented people and promote a working environment where we motivate, encourage and create opportunities for our personnel to grow. We have a real passion for and strong history of training and development; our Managing Director Andy was once a trainee at the company and many others have progressed through in this way. Every employee has regular reviews with their Line Manger, and every year the Performance Development Review (PDR) and Leadership Development Plans are carried out where we review current performance, set objectives with clear, realistic timescales, and gain an understanding of the individual’s career aspirations to allow us to put a personal development plan in place. These plans are regularly followed up with Line Managers and Mentors and ensure consistency with our values and our management standards. All employees are offered training relevant to their job roles, along with a suite of soft skill courses ensuring they have the correct skills and are confident to be able to do their job effectively. Our KPI for training is set at 3.5 days per person, per year. Currently, we are over performing in this area and are at 4 days per person, per year.  

Employee Engagement

Twice a year we hold a company meeting with all employees within the business. Our Leadership Team provides a presentation on the Company, what we have achieved over the past six months and what our forward focus is. Each year, we conduct a people survey and a health and wellbeing survey where we ask all of our staff to complete a confidential questionnaire about their experience of working for Halsall. The data received allows us to gain an understanding of our areas of strength and weakness and helps provide us with a direction for improvement.  Once the data has been collected and analysed, we hold a people survey review meeting in groups where we discuss the findings and communicate our improvement plan. We know that a healthy and happy workforce results in an efficient, productive business. That’s why we invest in people and wellbeing. It is a priority and in our utmost power to look after the physical, phycological and social wellbeing of our employees. 

As a result, we were accredited ‘Gold’ for the Investors in People and Investor in People ‘Wellbeing’ category for the next 3 years. We have 4 fully trained Mental Health First Aiders who are our Ambassadors for Mental Health in the workplace.  

The Ambassadors are committed to help create a healthy supportive workplace and are here to help all colleagues with a friendly chat and advice. Over the years, the quality of our workplace environment has improved and we were delighted to have won the South West Constructing Excellence award “SME of the Year” as well as being nominated for “People Development” which is something we are extremely proud of.    

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Supporting the Local Community

We are committed to investing locally and building strong, collaborative relationships with the local community. We actively use local labour and materials wherever possible on all of our projects. We are proud of our heritage as a long-standing employer in our local community and support young people starting their careers by offering structured apprenticeships, internships, and trainee and graduate roles. 

As well as employing locally, we sponsor local sports teams and have been involved in local charitable causes and events. Most recently we hired an ice cream van for a local street party in Bristol and again for the children of Windrush Primary School in Witney. 

Our most unique community support experience was with the Hereford and Worcester Fire and Rescue Service. They made the most of our tower crane on our Droitwich site. It’s no surprise that the Fire and Rescue service don’t get too many opportunities to practice a tower crane emergency rescue, so they arrived in the their full uniform and did just that. We were more than happy to allow them to use our site for such an important training activity.

Halsall Cheque Presentation at Merriott Squash Club Nov 16th 2021 copyright Neil Phillips