Patrons of CRASH commit to making an annual donation of £7,800 to the charity for a minimum of three years. These more than cover all running costs of CRASH and the surplus donations are then directed to projects.
This annual commitment allows us to budget effectively and operate efficiently, enabling CRASH to deliver a high level of practical support to frontline homelessness agencies throughout the UK.
Some Patron companies choose to give further support by supplying materials and/or staff time where individuals can offer specific on-site expertise, which CRASH directs to relevant projects depending on what needs they have.
Patron companies are also encouraged to involve their employees in CRASH community and fundraising events which run throughout the year and all across the UK. These events are not only a great opportunity for team-building and networking within the industry, but as all proceeds from our fundraising events go directly to help projects working with homeless people, they are also a fun way to put something back into the community and help those less fortunate.
Being a Patron supporter of CRASH gives companies the opportunity and means to help homeless people in a practical and tangible way.
Supporting CRASH is a fantastic way to unite and inspire your staff and colleagues while meeting company CSR targets, and we will help you do this by providing every opportunity to be involved in the charity in any or all of the following ways:
- Helping projects on a professional level and/or supplying materials
- Community challenges
Individuals/small groups give hands-on help to projects i.e. painting & decorating, gardening, IT support. - Visiting projects
Enabling your staff to see first hand how supporting CRASH is directly helping homeless people - Fundraising events
Taking part in CRASH events and/or individuals organising their own fundraising activities - Networking opportunities
With other companies & individuals within the industry - Corporate Social Responsibility
Supporting CRASH is a fun and easy way to meet your company CSR targets
Companies that become CRASH Patrons are asked to nominate the MD, Chief Executive or a Senior Manager, to represent their company on the CRASH Council. The council meets twice a year (usually in April & October) providing you with the opportunity to hear about CRASH's progress, contribute ideas, and network with other CRASH Patron representatives.
CRASH is a unique charity, created and supported by construction and property companies – it is your charity, and a charity to be proud of.
If you would like to know more about becoming a Patron of CRASH, please click here to contact our Chief Executive Francesca Roberts, who will be more than happy to explain the opportunities involved or call the CRASH office on 020 8742 0717.
A list of our Patrons, who they are and what they do.
A-Plant
A-Plant offers a vast range of equipment available to hire - from plant to traffic control and management, tools to trench-less technology and scissor lifts to accommodation units.
A-Plant has achieved a market leading position through constant dedication to their customers. Continuous investment ensures they are able to provide their customers with the most comprehensive and modern range of equipment, supported by the highest levels of service in the industry.
ACO Technologies
ACO is a leading supplier in the design, development and manufacture of surface water drainage.
Established in 1984, ACO Technologies plc is based in Shefford, Bedfordshire and uses a diverse range of materials including polymer concrete, iron, steel and plastic to develop innovative products that are supported by a comprehensive design and after sales service. ACO manufacture drainage solutions for every application including Internal and Building Drainage, Landscaping, Retail, Distribution centres, Highways and Airports.
AECOM
AECOM is a global provider of professional technical and management support services to a broad range of markets, including transportation, facilities, environmental and energy. With 43,000 employees in over 100 countries around the world, AECOM is a leader in all of the key markets that it serves. AECOM provides a blend of global reach, local knowledge, innovation, and technical excellence in delivering solutions that enhance and sustain the world's built, natural and social environments.
Argent Group
Argent is a property development company.
Founded in 1981, they have built a strong track record in developments that combine offices, shops, hotels, cafés, restaurants and - increasingly - other uses including residential; and have become a leading practitioner of city centre regeneration.
Balfour Beatty
Balfour Beatty is a world-class engineering, construction, services and investment business.
They create and care for essential assets: hospitals, schools, road, rail, utility systems and major structures. They work in partnership with sophisticated customers who value the highest levels of quality, safety and technical expertise – applying skills to meet their individual needs.
BAM Construct
BAM Construct UK is one of the UK’s leading construction services organisations.
They offer an integrated service which covers a huge range of developments, whatever their scale, complexity or industry sector; from investment and development through to design, construction, operations and maintenance.
Bauder
Bauder is one of Europe’s leading manufacturers of waterproofing membranes.
With over 150 years of experience and expertise in the roofing industry, Bauder is widely recognised for both quality of service and product innovation.
Their flat roof waterproofing systems exceed industry expectations and provide a single source solution for all their clients. Bauder’s commitment to continually advancing their range of products and systems ensures that they can deliver the right technical and commercial solution for each individual project.
British Gypsum
British Gypsum is the UK's leading supplier and foremost authority on internal wall and ceiling systems.
With its headquarters at East Leake in Leicestershire, the company currently has 5 major manufacturing plants in the UK. British Gypsum provides the industry's foremost technical support and training through its market leading Drywall Academy support function, and, via its East Leake based Building Test Centre, has access to Europe's leading suite of fire, acoustics and structural test laboratories.
Buildbase
Buildbase is one of the UK's fastest growing builders’ merchants.
All of their branches are long established companies which have been serving local trades people for many years, with knowledge and experience to match. Buildbase believes strongly in understanding the needs of the trade professional and their business is developed specifically to meet those demands - massive stocks, top quality products, competitive pricing, reliable delivery, specialist staff and exceptional customer service.
Burdens
Burdens has been providing a distribution platform for the building and civil engineering industry for the past seventy-five years and now operates throughout the UK, Ireland and around the world. With a turnover in excess of £300m, employing 1,100 people and operating from 50 distribution and trade depots Burdens has a unique position in the industry.
Burdens customer base includes major civil engineering and construction companies, house-builders, local authorities, water plc’s, and a wide range of specialist contractors and sub-contractors in the infrastructure support sector.
The Vision and Values of the Company's founding families has had a significant influence on the culture of the business and its resultant ownership model with the Burdens Charitable Foundation being a major shareholder. This ownership structure has played an important role in the growth of our Company and has significantly influenced the culture created. Ensuring that Burdens own people have the opportunity to share in the growth they create, through the value of their shares, both recognises and supports their long term commitment and innovation. Employee share ownership is a key element of the Company’s Vision and Values.
Burdens Charitable Foundation helps good causes at home but chiefly in developing countries, recognising the important role that the charitable sector now fulfils in our own society and equally our responsibility to the creation of a fairer world.
Carillion
Carillion is one of the UK’s leading support services and construction companies.
Carillion have an annual revenue of around £5bn, employing around 50,000 people in operations across Britain and in Europe, Canada, the Middle East, North Africa and the Caribbean.
They have a portfolio of award-winning work in vital areas to society: health, education and regeneration, road, rail, defence and commercial property. From the first concept to on-going facilities management and support services, we provide high quality, cost effective and sustainable solutions tailored to the needs of our customers.
Davis Langdon
Throughout the UK, Europe and Middle East, Davis Langdon offers services that combine to make a measurable difference to the value, cost and time of their clients’ projects.
EC Harris
EC Harris is an international consultancy – acting as trusted advisors to clients – in planning and executing strategies that optimise the construction, operation, use and ownership of built assets.
EC Harris’ professional skills include 17 different disciplines: from asset and facilities strategy to management information systems – quantity surveying, programme, project and construction management to software development. We also extend our capacity and capability through alliances with selected companies and supply chains assembled for specific sectors.
Galliford Try
Galliford Try is one of the UK’s leading construction and housebuilding groups with revenues of circa £1.2 billion.
Recognised for their high standards of project delivery and their approach to innovation and continuous improvement – from customer service, through project design and delivery, to supply chain management - they play an increasing role in contributing to the future of the UK's built environment.
Hanson Limited
Hanson is one of the UK’s largest suppliers of construction materials. Their products include aggregates, asphalt, ready-mixed concrete, bricks, blocks and cement.
This broad product range also includes block paving, precast concrete, clay roofing products and garden landscaping materials. They even offer specialist contracting and civil engineering services.
Hewden
Hewden is one of the largest providers of plant and equipment for hire in the UK. The business offers one of the most comprehensive multi-specialist ranges of equipment available. Combined with a strong service and safety ethos, Hewden offers its customers a deep level of knowledge and experience in meeting their hire requirements and enabling them to operate their businesses more effectively.
Hewden operate a modern fleet of over 33,000 units across small and large plant, powered access, cranes, accommodation and power. The hire fleet and support services are delivered to customers through a national depot network with a further 10 on-site operations at large customer facilities through which Hewden is able to provide a fully managed service.
Hewden operates across several industry sectors, serving a broad range of customers in construction, environmental markets, infrastructure and the industrial services sector.
Combining specialist product knowledge and market insight, Hewden delivers to its customers a unique service in the UK plant hire market.
Hilti
Hilti provides leading-edge technology to the global construction industry.
Hilti products, systems and services offer the construction professional innovative solutions with outstanding added value.
Imtech Technical Services
Imtech Technical Services are a significant provider of technical services to the building services and process industries across the UK.
Operating through five strategic business units and a network of local offices across the UK, we have a reputation for delivering complex mechanical and electrical engineering installations across many market sectors as well as providing a wide range of solutions to the water, wastewater and industrial markets.
John Laing
John Laing is a specialist owner, operator and manager of public sector infrastructure assets in the UK and internationally.
By combining their skill in the management of development risk, project financing, asset management and operations with those of their chosen partners and the project supply chain they have built an enviable reputation as a market leader in the privately financed form of infrastructure renewal and modernisation now recognised as a key element of public sector procurement policy.
Knauf
Knauf are one of Europe's leading building materials manufacturers. Knauf manufacture and supply high quality and innovative products and systems throughout the UK, servicing both commercial and DIY markets.
Their comprehensive range of construction products includes plasterboard, plaster, insulation, load bearing and non-load bearing metal stud, sound absorption boards, the Aquapanel tile backing range and fire-stopping.
Their specialist and standard systems include wall lining, drylining, drywall partitioning, floors, ceilings, structural stud linings, loadbearing partitions and loadbearing floors, shaftwall, fire protection, acoustic and thermal insulation and more.
Lafarge
World leader in building materials, Lafarge holds top-ranking positions in each of its three divisions; Cement, Aggregate & Concrete, and Gypsum.
Present in 76 countries, the Group responds to the world’s demand for housing and infrastructure. Lafarge is driven by the needs of its customers, shareholders, local communities and architects. The Group creates high value-added solutions which encourage creativity whilst leaving a lighter trace on the world.
Land Securities
Land Securities is the UK's largest Real Estate Investment Trust with a commercial property portfolio worth over £12 billion.
Land Securities is a FTSE 100 company and they own and manage approximately 7.6 million m2 of commercial property and provide property services to more than 2,500 private and public sector clients.
Lend Lease
Founded in Australia in the 1950s and listed on the Australian Stock Exchange, Lend Lease is a leading real estate specialist, which creates, enhances and manages real estate assets around the world. The Group's activities are primarily focused in the regions of Asia Pacific, Europe and the US, and cover 40 countries on six continents.
In the UK its business is focused primarily on the delivery of large scale integrated developments designed to regenerate town centre and major urban sites. Lend Lease provides cohesive in-house solutions for mixed-use developments, from planning and consultation, to development, funding, construction and asset management.
The Group also provides international project and construction management services.
M8 Recruitment
M8 Recruitment works with the construction, property and rail industries, sourcing both permanent and freelance candidates at all levels from senior appointments through to trades, labour and support staff for site and office based assignments throughout the UK.
The company is regulated by the Recruitment and Employment Confederation and is Link Up approved, enabling it to supply all areas of the construction and rail industries. The M8 Group also encompasses Currie & Associates, which specialises in the consultancy sector.
M8 Recruitment has offices in Central London, Kent and Manchester.
Network Rail
Network Rail is the not for dividend owner and operator of Britain's railway infrastructure, which includes the tracks, signals, tunnels, bridges, viaducts, level crossings and stations - the largest of which we also manage. We aim to provide a safe, reliable and efficient rail infrastructure for freight and passenger trains to use.
Packexe
Packexe are manufactures of quality carpet, hardfloor, multi-surface self adhesive protection film for home diy or the building industry.
RedSky IT
RedSky IT is the largest financial software provider to the UK construction industry supply chain.
They offer focussed construction industry software and accounting solutions to each part of the supply chain and their products help manage every process of a construction project from designing it to building and maintaining it. With over 30 years experience and by supporting in excess of 1,500 organisations critical construction software systems, RedSky are the IT partner in many construction projects.
Skanska
Skanska is one of the world’s leading construction groups with expertise in construction, development of commercial and residential projects and public-private partnerships.
In the UK Skanska carries out huge projects and literally thousands of small ones. Everyone has heard about the Gherkin in London, the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, the Dartford Crossing, the M1 widening and the huge PFI hospitals and schools that we build. At the same time they dig hundreds of holes every day to replace and renew the gas, water, electricity and telephone lines of the UK, they support many of the large buildings and infrastructure projects on our sites. They are leaders in mechanical and electrical engineering and piling and foundations and much more.
Sto Ltd
Founded in 1835, Sto is an international company renowned for world-class, energy-saving external wall insulation, render and rainscreen cladding systems, acoustic ceilings, interior plasters and paint.
Sto has become a market leader for facade insulation systems on the back of its belief in product innovation and its’ aim for technological leadership. The basis for this success is provided by Sto's guiding principle, "Building with conscience". Sto is committed to maintaining the value of old and new buildings, and leading in the design of building products in line with sustainable, ecological requirements. Leading architects specify Sto based upon its durable and technically advanced product qualities allied with a wide range of colourful, textured finishes.
Sto Ltd, with its’ HQ in Glasgow, wishes to align itself with CRASH to underline its commitment to helping to build centres for homeless people.
Visit sto.co.uk for further information.
Taylor Wimpey
Taylor Wimpey plc is a dedicated homebuilding company with operations in the UK, North America, Spain and Gibraltar.
They aim to be the homebuilder of choice for their customers, their employees, their shareholders and for the communities in which they operate.
Travis Perkins plc
A major PLC, Travis Perkins is a leading company in the builders’ merchant and home improvement markets.
The Group supplies more than 100,000 product lines to trade professionals and serious DIYers, and is a main supplier to the building and construction market, one of the largest industries in the UK.
The company operates eight businesses - Travis Perkins, Keyline, City Plumbing Supplies, CCF, Benchmarx, Wickes, Tile Giant and Toolstation (owns 30% of the company) - and has over 1,200 branches across the UK.
