Corporate responsibility: Airwave clearing the way for the future
“We are always pleased to support the local community and the team had a great day"
Despite it being the busiest time of the year for the Airwave finance team in Slough - financial year end - they donned their gardening gear and spent a day at Ryvers School in Langley transforming an overgrown corner of one of the playfields into what will become a peaceful reading area for the children to enjoy.
The initiative formed part of a programme already in place at Airwave for the company and its employees to ‘put something back’ into the local Slough community. Airwave has been working with the Slough Business Community Partnership to uncover community projects which we can support.
Armed with their own equipment, as well as commercial shredders and strimmers, the team spent the day cutting back overgrown shrubs, brambles and nettles and then took away all the foliage in a truck donated for the day by a work colleague.
Over the spring/ summer months, the newly-cleared area at the school will be used as a reading area for the children. The school is also looking to encourage local species of birds into the area to give the children a truly magical experience of mixing reading with nature.
Parminder Dost, chief financial officer at Airwave said, “We are always pleased to support the local community and the team had a great day. We worked very hard and are so proud of the end product. We look forward to working with the school in the future.”
Slough Business Community Partnership matches the manpower or specialist skills of local businesses with public sector organisations and charities.
Source: www.airwavesolutions.co.uk
