Caring employees pitch into community projects

ExxonMobil staff across the UK rolled up their sleeves to participate in community projects for this year’s Day of Caring.

The annual initiative encourages employees to take a day out of their offices to offer much-needed practical support to local groups such as charities, the Scouts and schools.

A team from the head office in Leatherhead painted large sections of Fetcham Preschool. Others from the same site worked with a theatre group for people with disabilities, redecorated a building for a scout group, planted a garden at a homeless shelter, and worked on conservation projects.

Fawley volunteers cleared an overgrown area for the benefit of wheelchair users at Forest Front Nature Reserve; developed paths and fences at Lepe Country Park; created a new path at Holly Hill Woodland Park; constructed an outdoor learning area at Wildground Junior School; and built fishing platforms and improved wheelchair access at Holbury Pond.

A team from ExxonMobil Chemical’s UK Advanced Elastomer Systems site helped St Mary’s Roman Catholic Primary School with its Forest Project, which introduces children to nature, by constructing raised planting beds, creating a path and building structures to make shelters. The team from Newport, Wales, also supplied the school with gardening tools and waterproofs.