29 Oct 2018

On the 20th of October 2018 Plastic Building Supplies Ltd hosted a 30th anniversary celebration. In attendance was around 200 staff, some customers and suppliers at The Talk in Norwich.

The Talk Norwich

PBS hosted a raffle and an auction raising over £2000 for East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices (EACH). Companies sponsoring the prizes included: Easy Innovations, Drinklink, Midland Lead, Toolbank, Broadfix, Brett Martin, Window Ware, Lustre Coastings, Floplast, Kestrel, Rostrons, Rehau and Mancroft Insurance!

EACH Charity Auction

PBS would like to sincerely thank these suppliers for helping them achieve their fundraising efforts for the evening.

Carol & Sophie from EACH were also in attendance and gave a moving presentation reminding the audience why EACH is such a worthy charity to support. Carol also thanked PBS for their support over the years and Sophie assisted in hosting the auction where a spa day, golf day, driving experience and a large bag of tools were up for grabs!

PBS award

During the evening there was an awards presentation for staff anniversaries which included multiple awards for 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 and even 30 years of service.

Guests were treated to entertainment from the talented Elle & The Pocket Belles performing a mix of vintage and a-Capella swing music. The ladies recently appeared on Sky 1’s Sing: Ultimate A Capella hosted by Cat Deeley.

Keep posted for more 30th anniversary updates!

24 Sep 2018

This month, a group of PBS colleagues and friends, including Grant from DMD Installations, walked a whopping 25 miles from Cromer Pier to the PBS branch in Norwich to raise money for charity.

Plastic building supplies charity walk for EACH 

The walk took just over 10 hours to complete and raised a total of £1200 in funds for our chosen charity EACH (East Anglia’s Childrens Hospices) for the Nook Appeal.

Shaun Brookes of PBS said ‘it felt amazing to exceed our initial £1k target plus achieving the 10hr walk which was almost a marathon. It was tough but we are so happy to have been able to support such a deserving charity!’

The Nook appeal currently stands at over £8 million and the building work is well underway. The appeal continues to rely on the support of local businesses in order to achieve the Nooks final target of 10 million pounds. EACH’s vision is to transform palliative care for children in Norfolk and require a purpose built facility.

A big well done to our wonderful team and a massive thank you to our supporters and sponsors of this walk for your kindness.

Support the Nook Appeal
Donate to EACH
Sponsor our walk

 

07 Jul 2017


^ Watch our Norfolk Show highlight reel!

The Royal Norfolk Show is an annual agricultural event which spans over two days and attendance is a rite of passage for Norfolk dwellers… and beyond! The only thing that let us down over the couple of days was the weather – the first day was torrential from set up at 7am. Luckily, the sensible folk of East Anglia were well prepared armed with wellies and golf umbrellas. Unfortunately someone joked with our marketing lady suggesting wellies were overkill – she showed up in fabric flats and soon became extremely muddy.

norfolk-show-wellies

You may have noticed the return of the Rimba Tunes/tubes to our stand this year – these are a series of pipes arranged in such a way they are able to echo specific musical notes in the arrangement of a piano. The best Rimba Tubes musician won a hamper. This contraption was devised by the ever-musical Lee Gibling (web manager and pro-beatboxer) and was painted in EACH corporate colours. EACH our PBS’ chosen charity of whom we support all year round and have taken a pledge of support to help fund their NOOK campaign. More info on that can be found here.

To further assist in awareness of the NOOK campaign we brought along some of our newest products – plastic recycled furniture – and one of these benches were also decorated in EACH’s blue and orange colours. A percentage of each sale of these items of furniture will be donated to EACH. These products are available in our Norwich store and will make a debut to our web store shortly so keep your eyes peeled!

We had a wonderful two days despite the weather and would highly recommend the show to anyone who hasn’t visited before.

Thank you to everyone who visited our stand, see you next year!

14 Sep 2016

At PBS we would like to thank all the customers who came to our cake day for The Nook Appeal, on Monday 12th of September. Thanks to  your donations  we managed to raise a fantastic £150.

The money raised will go towards the wonderful cause of The Nook Appeal, which aims to raise £10 million for a new state of the art hospice in Poringland, where it will be situated on an idyllic woodland plot, creating a wonderful tranquil setting for children, young people and their families.

cake day

16 Aug 2016
Snetterton Race Circuit for EACH

Shaun Brookes, one of our Sales Team Members, will be representing Plastic Building Supplies, at ‘Cycle at Snetterton Race Circuit,’ a fundraising event for East Anglia’s Children’s Hospice (EACH) Nook Appeal. He will cycle at least eight three mile laps on Friday 23rd of September.

He will be doing it to raise money solely for EACH’s ‘The nook Appeal’.

To help Shaun achieve his goal to raise at least £250, for this wonderful charity, go to https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/Shaun-Brookes

02 Jun 2016

At PBS we are very proud to have supported East Anglia’s Children’s Hospice (EACH) charity for 20 years and continue to support their outstanding work with families and children.
EACH provides a wide range of services and support to children and families with life threatening conditions.
EACH, which provides care and support to life-threatened children, has outgrown its current hospice in Quidenham. Due to the changing and more complex needs of the children and young people they care for and the increased demand for their services and needs to move to a purpose-built site. The nook will be built in Framingham Earl just south of Norwich and will offer services which are either currently unavailable or extremely limited at Quidenham.

To help these families even more they are trying to raise money for their Nook Appeal. A new state of the art hospice in Poringland, where it will be situated on an idyllic woodland plot, creating a wonderful tranquil setting for children, young people and their families. It will also be better positioned in the county, within a thriving local community and won’t be as isolated from services, hospitals and road networks.

Stephen Gibling, Director at PBS, said: “We are very proud to have supported East Anglia’s Children’s Hospice (EACH) for 20 years and continue to support their outstanding work with families and children. EACH provides a wide range of services and support to children and families with life-threatening conditions. To help these families even more they are trying to raise money for their nook appeal to build a new state of the art facility in Norfolk. They can’t do this without our help, that’s why at PBS we have committed ourselves to raise £15,000 in the next three years for the appeal. I’d encourage other businesses across Norfolk to join us and support this worthy local cause!”

EACH, which provides care and support to life-threatened children, has outgrown its current hospice in Quidenham. Due to the changing and more complex needs of the children and young people they care for and the increased demand for their services and needs to move to a purpose-built site. The nook will be built in Framingham Earl just south of Norwich and will offer services which are either currently unavailable or extremely limited at Quidenham.

James Bacon, EACH Norfolk Corporate Fundraiser, said: “We’re delighted that Plastic Building Supplies Ltd have pledged their support for our nook business network and are committed to helping make our vision of a new hospice for local life-threatened children and their families a reality. We need the support of all sectors of the Norfolk community – individuals, schools, community groups and of course the business sector to achieve our fundraising target , so support from PBS is fantastic and we very much look forward to working with them.”


They can’t do this without our help, that’s why at PBS we have committed ourselves to raise £15,000 in the next 3 years for the Nook Appeal.
If you would like to help and get involved, please head to their website.

 

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