Your Stories

Thanks to your huge efforts, we’re able to provide charitable support to those who need it most in our construction community. Here are just a few of the people to whom you’ve made a difference.

Groundworker - Breaking free from addiction

Joiner - Overcoming Loss and Making a Difference

Site Labourer - From Setbacks to New Beginnings

Labourer – Avoiding Sleeping on the Streets

Administrator - Overcoming domestic abuse and trauma

Contracts Manager - Loss of a brother and traumatic health scare

Plant Operator - Trauma following a fatal road accident

Administrator - Relationship breakdown and financial struggles

Joiner - Homelessness and Rehabilitation

Site Manager - Marriage Breakdown

Construction Manager - Suffering a stroke

Site Manager - Lack of self-esteem and confidence

Construction Manager - On the road to recovery

Labourer - raising a young family whilst battling cancer

Construction Apprentice - From sofa surfing, to having a place to call home

Prostate Cancer - Don't delay, get tested today

Painter & Decorator - Caring for daughter with reduced income

Fit out sector - a phone call saved a life

Project Manager - counselling & a life coach

Painter & Decorator - End of a marriage

Business Development Manager - Prostate Cancer, from diagnosis, to recovery

Plumbing & Heating Engineer - A devastating house fire

Construction Plant Operator - Dealing with anger

A story from a Mental Health First AiderThe following information was given to us by one of our construction industry’s mental health first aiders. The story is an incredibly strong one and highlights the huge difference that can be made to the lives of individuals who feel that they have nowhere to turn and that their life is not worth living.

Self Employed Builder - Back to work

Construction Labourer - Finding a safer home

Site Traffic Marshall - Sudden Loss

Labourer - Suicide, back from the brink

External Cladder - When tragedy strikes

Builders Merchant Worker - Addiction and Mental Health

Partner of a scaffolder - Struggles after losing a partner

Groundworker - Life after a loss

Office Worker - Juggling a cancer diagnosis and finances

Labourer - Mental health taking its toll

Bricklayer - Tragic change in circumstances

Scaffolder - Seeking help during an illness

Labourer - Homeless and hungry

Plumber - Coping with cancer

Contract Manager - Support after trauma

Painter & Decorator - Sleepless Nights

Scaffolder - Matthew's story

Carpenter - Coping with an illness

Partner of Construction Worker - Loss of a partner

Labourer - Injury at Work

Crane Supervisor - Onsite Accident

Roofer - Fall from height

Dry Liner - Major Trauma

Construction Worker - Death onsite

Builder - Emotional Support

Builder - Motor Neurone Disease

Roofer - Accident at Work