The Guinness Partnership’s Post

We are honoured to have won the Collaborative Working award at this year's EEM Building Communities Awards. Our DIY Skills programme has helped 65 female participants in Oldham, Sheffield and Salford gain basic DIY and maintenance skills, including joinery, tiling, and plumbing. As well as training, the women received mentoring, support and guidance to promote self-confidence and help them get into work.   Eadaoin Kelly, our Senior Community Partnership Manager said: “We are delighted to have won the Collaborative Working award, in recognition of our multi award winning DIY skills programme. This training programme could not have happened without our partners, who have been instrumental in making this a success – and of course our participants and their enthusiasm and commitment. A huge thank you to EEM for giving us this fantastic award.” Thanks to all our partners for making this programme possible. CITB, Edmundson Electrical Ltd, Frameworks Social Enterprise CIC, Great Places Housing Group, Hispec - Life Safety & Housing Solutions, Jewson Partnership Solutions, Oldham College, Salford City College Group #CitySkills, Salford, Salix Homes, Smart Works Greater Manchester, The Sheffield College, Triton Showers, Wates Group. #BCAwards25 Find out more here: https://lnkd.in/e444aNe6

  • The Building Communities Awards 2025 Collaborative Working Award naming The Guinness Partnership as the winner.
  • Some of the partners who have supported the programme holding up their certificates at the awards night– from left to right: Gareth Barnbrook from Hispec, Maxine Breen from Triton Showers, Joanne Miller Great Places Housing Group, Kim McBride and Eadaoin Kelly from Guinness, Adele Chalmers  from Jewson Partnership Solutions and Chris Loughlin from Hispec.
  • Recent programme participants in Oldham with their certificates of completion, alongside key programme support leads from each of the partner organisations

A great pleasure to be involved and congratulations to all the team!

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Well done to everyone involved, this is a fantastic achievement! 🎉

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The Guinness Partnership Congratulations, well done to the team! 👏

Roisin Ahmed

Regional Head of Customer Service at The Guinness Partnership

4mo

Congratulations to everyone involved.

Christopher Melia

Strategic Customer Success Partner

2mo

Congratulations on this well-deserved recognition! Empowering women with practical DIY skills and boosting their confidence is truly impactful, and it's inspiring to see such strong collaboration across sectors to make it happen. Well done to everyone involved — this is community transformation in action. 👏🏽🔧✨

Thom M.

Founder Building Homes - Faster, Smarter, Safer. Principal Contracting & Project Management. Specialising in MMC, committed to reducing embodied carbons - whilst maximising Biophillic designs with sustainable energy!

4mo

The Guinness Partnership That’s great achievement. Well done to everyone involved

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