M25 Junction 10 improvements - our work in the community
We want to make a positive difference for communities living near our roads, especially where we’re carrying out works. Here are some of the ways we've supported local communities around our M25 junction 10 improvement scheme
Painshill Park volunteering
Volunteers from our team participated in a landscaping initiative at Painshill Park.
Our team engaged in various tasks such as scrub clearance, weeding and cutting back hedges, helping to maintain and enhance the park's scenic beauty.
The activities were tailored to meet the landscape's specific needs and priorities, ensuring the park remains well-maintained for visitors to enjoy.
East Surrey College careers event
Our team visited East Surrey College to showcase career opportunities with us and Balfour Beatty.
We highlighted roles in Customer Engagement, Project Management and Environmental careers.
Together, we helped 100 students from Construction, Engineering, Business and Science courses explore potential career paths.
Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) volunteering
We helped prepare RHS Wisley's Rose Garden for summer.
Our volunteers and staff from Atkins and Balfour Beatty spent a day fertilising soil alongside RHS staff.
As well as supporting this beautiful garden, it gave us an insight into the RHS and its work.
Cockcrow Bridge drawing competition
We teamed up with Balfour Beatty to spark young imaginations through our 'Building Bridges Near Nature' competition.
This gave local school children the chance to design actual bridge barriers for our project. Competition booklets highlighting local heathland wildlife helped to give them ideas.
Altogether, pupils from four primary schools submitted hundreds of nature-inspired designs.
Visit to Marist Primary School
Following the success of our bridge design competition, we were invited to kick off the school's Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) week.
We gave a special presentation to 500 students about how connections shape our world.
We used the the heathland bridge project as a real-life example of something that brings people, communities and wildlife together.
The kids were really exited by the link between classroom learning and actual projects happening in their community.
Visit to the Raleigh School, Byfleet
We visited local students to hand out awards and chat about what we're doing at the M25 Junction 10 scheme.
It was perfect timing as they'd been studying how places change over time in geography classes.
We worked with their teachers to set up a fun challenge. Students looked at maps of their school and suggested improvements to make it safer, greener, and better connected to the local community.
Litter picking in Newark Lane car park, Ripley
Fourteen volunteers from our project partners participated in the Great British Spring Clean.
Our litter picking crew included members from Hercules Construction, K2Recovery, Civils Construction and Highway Care.
Despite bad weather, our efforts made a real difference to the local area.
Sensory garden for adults with autism
Our team, Balfour Beatty and our supply chain helped transform an outdoor space at Stonepit Close into a sensory garden for adults with autism.
80 volunteers spent four days helping to create the garden. Different surfaces, plants and objects will help to stimulate the senses of touch, sight, scent, taste, and hearing.
We worked in partnership with the National Autistic Society and The Glasshouse .
The Glasshouse social enterprise offers second chances to women prisoners reaching the end of their prison sentences. The work at Stonepit Close will help support women from a local prison, helping them to develop skills and experience.
Work experience
A student from St John's spent three days working alongside our M25 J10 project team.
Community work, environmental protection and engineering solutions were taught alongside staff to understand our different project roles.
The student fully enjoyed it and is coming back for a longer placement next year.
Nepalese engineers visit
Nepalese engineers recently toured our M25 J10 project through a partnership with Balfour Beatty and Nepal Engineers' Association UK.
Our team shared knowledge about project design, planning, execution and upcoming key milestones.
This experience offered the visiting engineers professional development and knowledge exchange opportunities within UK infrastructure delivery.
Ashcombe School careers fair
Our team members recently joined Ashcombe School's careers fair.
They spoke with students about the range of apprenticeships we offer.
The event was part of National Apprenticeship Week, helping young people discover careers in highways.
Recruitment day for military leavers
We teamed up with Balfour Beatty to help people leaving the military find new career paths and make useful connections.
The event was also a chance to celebrate Balfour Beatty's Gold Military Covenant Award.
Volunteering at Christophers Children Hospice
Our site volunteers spent the day painting a shed and side gates at the hospice.
They also enjoyed a site tour of the hospice.
