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Residents of Kingsley, Cheshire, recently celebrated the reopening of their community centre after a grant from the Tarmac Landfill Communities Fund allowed them to redevelop the space.

The installation of a unique new bridge structure over the top of a busy underpass in Birmingham has been successfully completed by Tarmac as part of a major A34 Perry Barr highways improvement scheme.

Pupils at Baljaffray Primary School, Glasgow, can enjoy outdoor learning without fear of the often ‘dreich’ elements thanks to a generous collaboration between parents, teachers and Tarmac.

Over 800 suppliers attended Tarmac’s first Supplier Sustainability Week, a four-day virtual event that ran from 27 to 30 September.  

Tarmac’s Mountsorrel Quarry has given a helping hand to the Cleaner Village Project, a local youth-focused community group, with a donation of nearly £400 towards litter picking equipment. 

Tarmac’s Tunstead Quarry near Buxton in Derbyshire recently welcomed High Peak MP Robert Largan to the site. 

Tarmac’s Harden Quarry in Northumberland has helped a local history and archaeological group continue its efforts with a donation of £3,500 towards its next dig. 

An old shipping container, donated by Tarmac, has saved a wheelchair athletics club from closure after arsonists destroyed nearly £50,000-worth of vital equipment.

Tarmac’s Mountsorrel Quarry in Leicestershire has donated a large piece of granite to the Loughborough Army Reserve Centre for use as a memorial stone.

An unsung Nottinghamshire hero credited with inventing the modern road surface has been celebrated with the unveiling of a commemorative blue plaque in West Bridgford.