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Carpentry Students Create Bug Hotel for RHS Cancer-Awareness Garden

For the second consecutive year, students at Leeds College of Building are using their skills to help create a poignant RHS show garden. The Level 1 Diploma Carpentry & Joinery students have crafted two five-foot triangular wooden bug hotels. The structures will feature at the main entrance of a garden going on display at RHS Tatton Flower […]

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Financial and mental health support for construction workers

Case workers at Lighthouse Construction Industry Charity helped lever £562,000 of furlough money and benefit entitlements for construction workers that might otherwise have gone unclaimed.

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Construction students will help build new college campus

A group of 12 students will help construction company Wilmott Dixon build a new college campus.

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Construction workers offered free wellbeing workshops

Check out this positive news story from the Rooftop: a construction software company and construction industry charity have teamed up to offer a series of free workshops to people working in the construction industry. The offer comes after the charity The Lighthouse Club sees a spike in calls to its helpline.

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Campaign launched to end alleged HS2 exploitation

Unite the union say workers are being denied direct employment and forced to operate via exploitative payroll and umbrella companies.

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