Refurbishing a Welfare House for Service Families

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Welfare House Refurbishment Provides Calming Space for Service Members

We are excited to share that we recently completed a pro-bono renovation project as part of our contract with Amey working on the Colchester Garrison. Our team donated £5,836 and 176 volunteering hours to modernise one of their Contact Welfare Houses, which provide spaces for family support during times of illness or crisis.

We were able to update and transform the space, including:

Providing and installing brand-new modern kitchen
Repainting rooms throughout the property
Installing new carpets and flooring across the entire property.

Working in collaboration with Garrison G1, DIO, Amey and Pinnacle, we have shown the importance of partnership to deliver valuable community projects and support. Additionally, the delivery of the project aligned with the arrival of two new Axis CLC employees, which offered a great opportunity to introduce them to our values and the benefits of collaboration.

We are proud to have received fantastic feedback about the quality of our work and the impact it will have on families at the Colchester SFA. We hope this refurbishment will help to support service members and their families in their time of need and provide a calming space for the delivery of support services.

I wanted you to know how much I appreciated, and I am so grateful for all your efforts to transform one of our Contact Welfare Houses on the Colchester SFA. It was a joy to see Garrison G1, DIO Accommodation, Amey, CLC and Pinnacle all working together, and I cannot tell you the difference this will make. Contact Houses are a huge element of the welfare wrap, and they are there so often needed when our service families are in a time of crisis, dealing with sick relatives and need extra provision for family support and to have close family with them.

At a time of great challenge, strain on resources and the demands on our workforce, your commitment, care and support for our soldiers and their families is so heartening to see. Our people are at the centre of this, they matter, they do amazing things and now again they need our help and to know there is a Firm Base to support them.

Thank you for going out of your way to make the contact house a home from home.

Lt Col Ed L Rankin DL

Commander, Colchester Garrison