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We are focused on delivering skills, education and employment support to help develop a local talent pipeline and address the skills shortage, ensuring we are the employer of choice for the most talented local people.
We will do this by ensuring we offer exciting career paths to everyone with ambition, regardless of their background. We will take our people on a learning journey and ensure a physically and mentally safe, respectful and exciting place to work.
We focus on making a difference to our local communities through the following flagship initiatives:
Our Skills, Education and Employment Volunteering Programme
Our expert Social Impact Team works with a whole range of regional stakeholders, to create, launch and manage innovative solutions to local skills, education and employment problems. They lead our SEE Volunteering Programme, which is ‘needs driven’, and operates from both ‘top down’ and ‘bottom up’.
We manage ‘top down’ requests from our customers for SEE project volunteers to support schools, colleges and educational establishments around our contracts, and ‘bottom up’ grassroots requests from our people to support initiatives in their local community. Examples include:
- TutorMate volunteering teams - supporting young children age 6 with 121 reading in schools with multiple indices of deprivation in London Borough of Islington
- Marketing Director supporting Year 6 students at Sandbach High School with insights into Digital Marketing and Social Media careers at a Careers event
- Engineers talking to Year 6 students at a high school in London Borough of Hillingdon about their career journeys as part of our social value commitments for our SCS JV HS2 project
If you have a local SEE project you would like Sunbelt Rentals to get involved in, please email your local Regional Social Impact Committee:
scotlandrsic@sunbeltrentals.co.uk
northrsic@sunbeltrentals.co.uk
midlandsrsic@sunbeltrentals.co.uk
Beacon Schools and Colleges Programme
Our Beacon Schools programme was founded in 2021. It aims to support 250 young people through one week work experience programmes aimed at demystifying the world of rental and the vast array of exciting careers available between now and 2025.
We work strategically with Beacon Schools and colleges located close to our Regional Operational Centres to encourage students to apply for apprenticeships and early careers with us We would love to hear from potential collaborative partners across the UK who are interested to join us in delivering our Beacon Schools and Colleges Programme. Please email socialimpact@sunbeltrentals.co.uk for more information
On-Site and Construction Skills Centres
We work in partnership with a number of contractors across the country to help deliver collaborative skills training either on site or at a college located close to major projects or developments. We can donate pop up classrooms to help students learn in a (safe) real world environment, and we can also work to loan plant and equipment to support students as they pursue their CSCS cards and relevant practical skills training qualifications.
Examples of this include: The Southwark Construction Skills Centre; City of Wolverhampton College; South & City College Birmingham; Solihull College . If you would like to find out about how you can support this please email socialimpact@sunbeltrentals.co.uk for more information.
Our Planet is our action plan for positive change, and our blueprint for a greener future. Driving carbon emissions down, helping our customers achieve their sustainability goals today, and developing the skills we all need for tomorrow. A key focus of this is skills, education and employment. We use our wide network of depots and thousands of specialists and experts across the UK to help reach those who may need additional support with their education and careers. We also run programmes across communities and targeted at young people to help demystify the construction industry and help build a strong pipeline of talent.
In 2022, Sunbelt Rentals launched its first, national Big Winter Donation Drive. Led by its network of internal Regional Social Impact Committees (RSICs), who deliver social impact locally to depots, the Big Winter Donation Drive supported different charitable causes each month from October to December.
Carntyne Riddrie is a not-for-profit food bank serving people in one of the most deprived areas of Glasgow. Bolted on to the Carntyne and Riddrie Credit Union it helps the local community by giving food to those who need it. It is non-referral based so anyone can just turn up and it supports thousands of people each year. The food bank is run by a team of volunteers and relies solely on donations to operate.
A crucial part of Our Planet sustainability plans is to create skills, education and employment opportunities that help shape a better future for those involved and builds upon creating a more responsible future for our planet, our people and our communities.
We have joined the global effort to improve literacy for all by partnering with the charity Innovations for Learning through their Chapter One programme. A significant focus of Our Planet sustainability plans is to help give young people the best start to life and a fair chance to build a great future.
From all our nationwide depots we actively reach out within local communities to find ways we can generate social impact, providing support where it is most needed. One of our focus areas is social equality and improving opportunity and equality for those who are reforming themselves and trying to transform their lives.
Sunbelt Rentals is proud to support young people across the UK. Whether it be getting an education, building a career or helping their mental and physical wellbeing, we are passionate about changing young lives for the better. It is also important that we make a difference where we operate and regularly work with our clients or industry partners to provide much needed support to smaller charities or causes near to our hundreds of depots nationwide.