Delivering essential accommodation buildings
Foundation Matters provides an invaluable opportunity for children to get away and enjoy a range of low-cost holiday activities, such as orienteering, canoeing, archery and bush craft, in an outdoor setting.
However, as a result of its success, demand for the charity’s services has continued to rise – and so too has the number of volunteers needed to support its mission. To address this, founder Jem Hudson took the strategic decisions to extend the site’s current accommodation facilities and build four new staff blocks, which would future-proof the essential work the charity undertakes.
He says: “As the number of children attending our holiday camps has risen, we need more volunteers to help us provide a safe and stimulating experience. Our original building is no longer large enough to cope with demand. To make it as easy as possible for our volunteers to give their time, we needed to provide more on-site accommodation, and so we started looking at building additional facilities.”
Having worked with Marley since the construction of the site’s main building when it opened in 2014, Jem was keen to build on the relationship as planning for the first of the new four blocks got underway. He continues: “After speaking with Marley, they immediately helped us in a number of ways. They supported with the design specification solutions for the new blocks, which included the selection of Marley’s weatherboard solution to clad the exterior of the structure.
“I was impressed with the minimal maintenance requirements of the weatherboard, as well as its great looks. We had used log sidings on our buildings previously, but they have to be re-stained every year, which is both expensive and time consuming. Marley’s weatherboard removes this job for us and frees up valuable resources for other important areas.
“Marley also worked with us to maximise the budget we had for the build and provided a high quality, aesthetically pleasing solution that the charity could afford.”
As well as the grey weatherboard cladding used to adorn the exterior walls, the new block has also seen the installation of 199m2 Smooth Grey Edgemere concrete slate tiles on the roofscape. Providing a complementary visual appeal that sits perfectly with the surrounding landscape, part of the project planning process included Marley suppling Edgemere tile samples to ensure that the grey specification would match the existing roofing colour on the original building.
As part of its holistic support, Marley also recommended MKM Derby as the roofing contractors and the project was completed on time and within budget.
Foundation Matters provides an invaluable opportunity for children to get away and enjoy a range of low-cost holiday activities, such as orienteering, canoeing, archery and bush craft, in an outdoor setting.
However, as a result of its success, demand for the charity’s services has continued to rise – and so too has the number of volunteers needed to support its mission. To address this, founder Jem Hudson took the strategic decisions to extend the site’s current accommodation facilities and build four new staff blocks, which would future-proof the essential work the charity undertakes.
He says: “As the number of children attending our holiday camps has risen, we need more volunteers to help us provide a safe and stimulating experience. Our original building is no longer large enough to cope with demand. To make it as easy as possible for our volunteers to give their time, we needed to provide more on-site accommodation, and so we started looking at building additional facilities.”
Having worked with Marley since the construction of the site’s main building when it opened in 2014, Jem was keen to build on the relationship as planning for the first of the new four blocks got underway. He continues: “After speaking with Marley, they immediately helped us in a number of ways. They supported with the design specification solutions for the new blocks, which included the selection of Marley’s weatherboard solution to clad the exterior of the structure.
“I was impressed with the minimal maintenance requirements of the weatherboard, as well as its great looks. We had used log sidings on our buildings previously, but they have to be re-stained every year, which is both expensive and time consuming. Marley’s weatherboard removes this job for us and frees up valuable resources for other important areas.
“Marley also worked with us to maximise the budget we had for the build and provided a high quality, aesthetically pleasing solution that the charity could afford.”
As well as the grey weatherboard cladding used to adorn the exterior walls, the new block has also seen the installation of 199m2 Smooth Grey Edgemere concrete slate tiles on the roofscape. Providing a complementary visual appeal that sits perfectly with the surrounding landscape, part of the project planning process included Marley suppling Edgemere tile samples to ensure that the grey specification would match the existing roofing colour on the original building.
As part of its holistic support, Marley also recommended MKM Derby as the roofing contractors and the project was completed on time and within budget.
