COMMUNITY
Crummock in the community.
Most of this work happens within a few miles of the yard. Clubs, schools and groups in Midlothian and Edinburgh, supported with sponsorship where that’s what’s needed, and with a crew and materials where it isn’t.
HOW IT WORKS
Sponsorship where it helps. A crew where it helps more.
Plenty of companies write a cheque to a local club. That matters, and a share of this is exactly that. But a surfacing and civils contractor has something a cheque doesn’t cover: people who can build things, and the plant and materials to do it with.
So some of this looks like sponsorship. Kit, strips, equipment, the minibus that gets a boxing club to away fixtures. And some of it looks like a squad on site at a weekend, laying a walkway or setting concrete, because that was the thing the group actually needed and it was within reach.
The clubs and schools are local, without exception. Loanhead, Bonnyrigg, Penicuik, Edinburgh. These are the places the crews live and their kids grow up in, which is the whole reason any of it started.
SUPPORTED
What’s supported.
McTaggart Scott Boxing Club, Loanhead. 2022 to present.
Main sponsor since 2022. The club’s minibus was funded and wrapped to a design the club chose themselves, and both home and away boxing kits are sponsored. Support continues through the events the club hosts in Loanhead and neighbouring Midlothian towns.
Bonnyrigg Rose Football Club, under 16s. 2020 to 2022.
Main sponsor, including new home strips. Work experience was offered alongside it, giving players leaving school a look at construction before deciding what to do next. That route has since led to apprenticeships.
Penicuik Rugby Club, under 16s. 2021 to present.
Home strip sponsor, with an annual contribution towards kit and training equipment.
Penicuik Youth Athletic, girls under 12s. 2023 to 2024.
Sponsorship of the girls’ team covering training kit, away strips, footballs and the equipment the club needed to get the squad running properly.
Paradykes Primary School, Loanhead. 2024.
Construction materials donated, with plant and labour to go with them. A crew installed concrete manhole rings around the school grounds, used as planters so pupils could plant trees and flowers as part of the school’s sustainability programme.
Edinburgh Kayak Club, St Andrew Boat Club, Meggetland. 2024.
A civils crew and materials, including structural timber and concrete, and four weekends spent building the club a new launch jetty. Access was the hard part: every load had to be ferried to the install point by rowing boat. While on site, one of the operatives listened to the club describe how difficult it was to drag kayaks and rowing boats across boggy, uneven ground, and suggested a fix. Over 400 square metres of astro was supplied and laid as a walkway to the jetty.
CRUMMOCK IN THE COMMUNITY
The minibus was their design, not ours.
The club chose the design themselves, which is why it looks like a boxing club rather than a surfacing contractor.