Some of the Greenview team recently attended the Lisburn & Castlereagh City Business Awards 2023 (LCCC Business Awards). We are delighted to have been awarded the Winner of the Contribution to the Community Award.

This award recognises businesses that are reaching out beyond their day-to-day business activities. Those making a positive impact and engaging business within the local community and bringing about great social benefit.

The LCCC Business Awards judges noted that “Greenview are fully invested in corporate social responsibility. As a result they are having significant positive impact in the local community. There is a real passion to make a difference and the community-focused ethos makes its employees want to get involved.”

We would like to thank each and every one of our employees that made this possible. Especially those that give their time and energy to make a difference in the communities where we live and work.

Check out the highlights of this brilliant awards night here

See more of our awards and accreditations here

Throughout December, Greenview employees have donated generously for local charities and foodbanks, working together to make a difference for the communities where we work.

We are delighted to have made donations to Lisburn foodbank, The People’s Kitchen Belfast, Newry Women’s Aid, and Cash for Kids ‘Mission Christmas’ toy appeal.

This also accompanies our Christmas Raffle which raised £210 for The People’s Kitchen Belfast and Crisis, our Charities of the Year for 2023.

Our Corporate Social Responsibility commitment focuses on achieving positive outcomes in the communities where we operate, enabling our customers and communities to positively benefit from the positive impact we create.

Thank you to each and every member of our team for your support and help.

1 November 2022 marks Greenview’s fifth anniversary. Since the creation of the Greenview in 2017, there has been rapid growth in terms of the services provided, the customers we serve and the people we employ.

Our services have developed over the last five years; we now deliver fully integrated building services across the UK and Ireland including mechanical and electrical, facilities management, capital works, and sustainable energy solutions.

Just like our services, our team has grown and now includes over 300 employees, each of whom make us who we are. To support our growth, we have invested over £300,000 in training and development, including our bespoke Apprentice Programme (representing 10% of our employees) and Management Development Programme. We value and celebrate difference; 53% of our management are female, much higher than our industry average.

Our growth provided a platform for continued expansion in the services we offer within a controlled and managed methodology, through both acquisition and organic growth. Our commitment to collaboration, innovation and high levels of quality and performance, has placed us as the trusted partner of choice for many clients across a range of sectors. We now have over 55 clients, and our contract portfolio ranges in scope and size up to £16 million. Our teams have now collectively attended over 750,000 visits. We have worked through turmoil and controversy, we have had some difficult times, but we have also had some amazing times, and have become stronger for it. We have our employees at the heart of every decision we make.

We would like to thank each and every one of our employees, clients, partners and suppliers for supporting us as we look forward to the next five years.

To mark Energy Saving Week in Northern Ireland, we wanted to share our top energy saving/efficiency tips which will not only benefit the environment but will also help cut costs of energy consumption in the home, helping reduce your energy bills this winter.

Energy Saving Week is about helping share tested tips with householders to help them save energy, reduce costs, and help lower the impact our energy use is having on the environment.

You can view our tips including some ‘how to’ videos here: https://greenviewgroup.com/energy-efficiency/

We are delighted to share that we have been shortlisted as Finalists for Large Contractor of the Year and Apprentice of the Year at the NI Plumbing and Heating Awards 2022.

The 2022 Awards recognise NI’s plumbing and heating contractors, consultants, merchants, manufacturers, people, products and projects.

Huge congratulations to one of our apprentices, Patrick McAllister, who has been shortlisted in the Apprentice of the Year category. We are proud of each and every one of our apprentices. Through our apprenticeship programme, we aim to help close the significant skills gap in Northern Ireland.

The awards are judged by an independent panel of respected industry experts who have unrivalled experience and industry knowledge. Our services are delivered by a fantastic team who are committed to delivering high levels of quality, being a finalist for Large Contractor of the Year, we are delighted that their performance and high standards of quality have been recognised.

We look forward to the awards ceremony on Friday 11th November and wish everyone the best of luck.

Greenview are delighted to announce our sponsorship of Lisburn Youth Football Club’s Reserve team. Greenview have sponsored the team’s new match kit for the season ahead. Keep up with how the team do throughout their season here

Pictured are:

• Greenview’s Jonathan McCambley, Associate Director – Air Conditioning and Refrigeration
• Stuart Caswell, Lisburn Youth Football Club’s First Team and Head Coach
• Senior players Glyn Rees and Matty Knox

Through our Corporate Social Responsibility commitments, we are passionate about making a positive difference to local teams and community groups.

We welcome suggestions and requests from our employees to achieve positive and sustainable outcomes in our local communities. Our community-based activities over the last 12 months have ranged from sponsoring a number of sports teams, improving community facilities, employee volunteering and our school engagement programme.

Find out more about our Corporate Social Responsibility commitments at https://greenviewgroup.com/corporate-social-responsibility/

At Greenview we are committed to our sustainability pledge and will continue to deliver services that feed into the government’s decarbonisation targets. To help honour this commitment, Greenview has signed the Climate Action Pledge NI, a public commitment to achieving an ambitious target of reducing its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 30% by 2030.

The Pledge is a driver for business to take action on the climate emergency, working to ensure a liveable future and limit the increase in global temperatures well below 2°C.

By signing the Climate Action Pledge and setting and striving to achieve ambitious Greenhouse gas reduction targets, Northern Ireland organisations can demonstrate their commitment and willingness to collaborate to address this critical issue.

The Pledge is a cornerstone of the Business Action on Climate campaign, an initiative of the responsible business network Business in the Community (BITC), which inspires and supports organisations to act as a force for good, convening business to tackle key societal and environmental issues.

Greenview’s CEO, Michael Burke said “The climate emergency is particularly relevant to us at Greenview as our business designs and delivers measures and services in the energy efficiency and renewable sectors.  We at Greenview are committing to support climate action by signing this pledge and we hope that in doing so, we can reduce our own impact on the environment and further help other businesses to achieve their climate emergency goals.”

Kieran Harding, Managing Director, BITC, said: “Signing the Climate Action Pledge is an act of public accountability that proves to an organisation’s stakeholders, customers and employees that they are taking ambitious action on the climate crisis”.

“To make a real difference, businesses need to collaborate and act now. We are delighted that Greenview has joined our growing group of Northern Ireland organisations that have made a public declaration to take action urgently.” For more information on the Business Action on Climate campaign and the Climate Action Pledge NI, please visit www.bitcni.org.uk/climate or email environment@bitcni.org.uk.

On the 29^th July, we held coffee mornings across our four sites: Carryduff, Mallusk, Newry and Hampshire. The coffee mornings were in aid of Brain injury matters, our Charity of the Year for 2022.

Brain Injury Matters (NI) is a charity which supports, promotes and empowers all those affected by Acquired Brain Injury (ABI). They support through a range of innovative programmes and initiatives led by a diverse team of clinicians. Helping those affected by ABI become more independent, achieve their goals and adjust to life with brain injury.

A huge thank you to everyone who took time out of their day to donate to a worthy cause. We are delighted to announce that we raised a total of £432.35.

We would like to thank all of our talented bakers for taking time to bake their delicious cakes. The generous contributions made the morning a huge success.

You can find out more about the inspiring work that Brain injury Matters deliver here

To view more of our fundraising activity at Greenview, visit our News page here

Five students from Springvale Learning in Belfast have completed a 12-week work experience programme with Greenview. This work experience has been to complement their Level 1 and 2 Plumbing courses. The students were each partnered with an experienced operative, spending two days on-site each week to gain valuable industry experience. Three of the Springvale Learning students will be continuing their work experience at Greenview for the remainder of the summer.

At Greenview, we commit to providing opportunities for students to develop their skills, gain industry experience and achieve qualifications. We provide these opportunities through our training and development programmes, to help support the next generation of engineers and operatives. Work placements offer students skills development and valuable “on the tools” experience in a live-working environment, whilst also developing confidence.

A huge thank you to our partner operatives who have supported the placement students!

Read more about training we provide at Greenview here

The programme aims to challenge misconceptions and to encourage females to consider opportunities in sectors such as engineering and construction that offer flexibility and wider career choices. The #notjustforboys programme aims to increase awareness amongst young females of the wide array of career opportunities available to them in sectors where women are typically under-represented, such as construction and engineering. This is achieved through engagement including primary school taster sessions, awareness events, mentoring, work experience or placements, and apprenticeships.

We embrace equality and opportunity for all; we proudly employ more females than our industry average and we have a good gender balance across our difference roles. Nonetheless with the industry facing a skills shortage, we believe it is important for us to encourage a wider pool of talent by inspiring females to make informed choices about their career.

The NotJustForBoys programme’s social impact creates training opportunities and employability pathways for females in non-traditional sectors. We will be working in partnership with Women’sTEC to inspire females to consider a wider range of career options and offering support to students in their journey.

You can read more about the NotJustForBoys programme here: https://www.notjustforboys.org/.