Supporting our employees and local communities is at the heart of our business and we aim to deliver social value in our projects.

  1. Community Engagement

     

    We want to engage with the communities in which we operate and provide a meaningful contribution to society.

    With hire centres, offices and and operational sites in over 70 locations, we have a great opportunity to create a positive impact on multiple communities through our charitable donations, employee activity and customer projects.

    Donations are made through the Portakabin Community Support Fund for charities and organisations working in the following areas:

    • Poverty, homelessness and hunger
    • Mental health and addiction
    • Grassroots sport
    • Hospices and hospitals
    • York and North Yorkshire-based organisations

    As part of our ongoing commitment to support local communities, we provide annual sponsorship for three brilliant charities in York:

    • York Cares, an independent employee-volunteering charity which brings businesses, employees and communities together to make York a better place. Portakabin has been a member of York Cares since 2014.
    • The York City Football Club Foundation, which supports the community in York using the power of sport as a vehicle for making a positive difference to people aged 4-90, delivering physical activity or using sport for spectating/discussion to draw people together to tackle key issues of health, mental wellbeing, isolation, loneliness, community cohesion and anti-social behaviour.
    • The Place, a charity based in the Westfield area of York which provides a safe space for local families to grow ambition and supports young people to meet their full potential.
  2. We offer all employees a paid volunteering day each year, and we encourage all colleagues to use this day to support their local community, whether it’s volunteering with our partner charities, helping their local scout group, animal charity, primary school or even a litter pick, we want all employees to make a difference in a way that’s meaningful to them.

    We also create social value through our customer projects. We’ve implemented the Thrive platform to monitor, measure, and report on our social value activity both to our customers and at a total business level.

  3. People and development 

     

    Our ambition is to build a supportive and safe environment and an open culture for our people.

    We have created a workplace built on four core values - Teamwork, Integrity, Commitment, and Innovation.

    We aim to build a supportive and safe environment and an open culture for our people, to help them balance their lives between work and home, offer opportunities to grow in a way that suits their personal circumstances and encourage everyone to contribute to the Portakabin purpose.

    Visit Portakabin Jobs & Careers | Portakabin® to find out more about careers at Portakabin.

Health and safety 

 

We want to create a culture where everyone is engaged to look after themselves and one another.

Portakabin has a simple vision for health and safety: we want to create a culture in which everyone is responsible for not only their own safety, but the safety of those around them too.

We treat legal and industry standards as a minimum through our commitment to, and compliance with, all relevant Health, Safety and Environmental legislation and best practice.

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