Foster Property Maintenance Ltd

Delivered on Time! Great to visit our maintenance contract at Kent and Canterbury Hospital today. Our team successfully completed a fast-track project to deliver various FRA works including replacement fire doors, fire stopping, new lighting and signage. The scheme was completed in 4 weeks, as promised. The project is part of our 3-year term maintenance contract with East Kent Hospitals University Foundation Trust, managed by the Trust’s subsidiary 2gether Support Solutions. A massive thank you to our project team - Peter Webley, Paul Kemp and David Roche.

Double Contract Success! We are very pleased to announce two contract wins for our teams in London and Cambridge. The first is to provide repairs and disrepairs works for London Borough of Haringey over the next two years. We have also secured a place on a 4-year framework to provide disabled adaptations for East Cambridgeshire District Council’s Home Improvement Agency. Well done team!  

We are supporting World Mental Health day. Foster is committed to both the physical and mental health of our employees. We are proud to be accredited to ISO45003, for managing psychosocial risk within an occupational health and safety (OH&S) management system based on ISO45001. We have mental health first aiders in our business and above all, encourage our people to look out for their buddies and take the time to talk and listen.

Good News – Contract Win ! We are delighted to announce that we have secured a place on the London Construction Programme (LCP) Major Works Housing Framework 2024. LCP are using the Framework Alliance Contract and is for an initial period of 5 years. Well done to our South-East team in securing this fantastic win.

Double Contract Success! We are absolutely delighted to announce that we have secured two contract wins with our valued client South Kesteven District Council (SKDC). The first is for roofing services and the second is to provide disabled adaptations. Both contracts are for works to the Council’s housing stock and have been let for an initial period of two years, and an option to extend for a further two. The contracts will be delivered by our team in Grantham. We have worked with SKDC for many years and are so pleased to be able to extend our presence in the area.

Double Framework Success! We are delighted to announce that we have won places on two major frameworks. The first is Procurement for Housing’s (PfH) planned maintenance framework for kitchens and bathrooms in the East region. The 4-year deal is our fourth framework success with PfH. PfH delivers complete, whole house services that encompass not just frameworks, but consultancy, technology and dynamic purchasing systems; all of which allow its members to achieve step-change improvements through a combined approach of delivering immediate cost savings at the same time as driving insightful long-term benefits. The second is CHIC’s kitchen and bathrooms framework, which is also a 4-year term. CHIC is a collaborative, not for profit, member owned and governed consortium that delivers compliant procurement solutions and commercial support to their members in partnership with the supply chain. We are so pleased to have secured places with these market leading procurement consortiums.

Awareness of Prostate Cancer Prostate Cancer UK advises that 1 in 8 men will get prostate cancer. If you’re over 50, or your dad or brother had it, you’re at even higher risk. Prostate cancer is not always life-threatening. But when it is, the earlier you catch it the more likely it is to be cured. Foster is highlighting awareness of this and playing our part by sponsoring pop-up PSA testing facilities in our communities. Big thanks to the GFCT Prostate Cancer Awareness Charity who provided staff to carry out the tests for our first session at the Meadows Community Centre in Cambridge. Our CEO was inspired to drive this social value wellbeing initiative, having recently visited Spain, where a PSA testing facility was operating at a local supermarket, with a group of friends. The volunteers providing the service were encouraging men to pop in and get tested. They duly did and it literally saved one of his friends life! We look forward to providing more pop-up tests soon.

Foster Leadership Programme. We are delighted to announce the launch of our 2024/25 Leadership Programme. We have selected three outstanding people in the business who have excelled in their role. Please join us in congratulating Kerry Curtis, Quantity Surveyor; Dan Thomas, Senior Quantity Surveyor and Victoria Cotterell, Project Manager. The Leadership Programme is designed to equip our people with the skills needed to make the next step towards becoming a future leader in the business. We look forward to a successful course, which will be a key feature of our commitment to investing in people going forward.

Great to be at the office with our Wisbech team today. Managed to get some quality time with our colleagues in HR, Accounts, Fleet, Call Centre and Operations. The newly refurbished office has gone down well and provides a great environment to work in. Well done team, your commitment and quality work are much appreciated and makes us very proud!