A children’s playground in Shiplake, Henley-On-Thames, has undergone a vast renovation and expansion, thanks to a £50,000 donation from the Tarmac Landfill Communities Fund.

The playground, located at the Memorial Hall off Memorial Avenue, had just swings, a slide, a springer chair and a climbing frame, until the revamp took place. After completing the year-long project, it now features equipment designed for children of different ages and abilities.

Working with Tarmac, the success of an industry-first Skanska UK and National Highways low carbon concrete trial will be extended to permanent roads.

Settle Swimming Pool, in North Yorkshire, has been renovated thanks to a donation of £50,000 from the Tarmac Landfill Communities Fund.

The community swimming pool – originally built in 1970s – was in need of major repairs, requiring additional funding. With the Tarmac Landfill Communities Fund contribution, the pool has now been successfully renovated, with changing rooms also modernised, a reception area extended and a new café and multi-use wellbeing centre added, called fitSpace.

An innovative hydrogen fuel supplement system has been named as the winner of Tarmac’s 2022 Supplier Innovation Challenge, an initiative that encourages suppliers, organisations and individuals to submit ideas which can support the acceleration of the company’s journey to net zero.   

Local residents are being encouraged to get digging at a series of tree planting days, as part of Panshanger Park’s contribution to the Queen’s Green Canopy initiative.

Designed to create a living legacy in Her Majesty’s name, a new public woodland is set to be created at the Hertford-based park through the project and will include a total of 17,000 trees. The land set aside for the project, will help to restore woodland areas and parkland in the northern part of the park, which is currently used for arable farming.

The construction industry’s first-ever Tarmac Fairy makes her debut in this year’s Tarmac festive film – will she spend the festive period searching high and low, wondering where everyone has gone? Or will she find a way to unlock the spirit of Christmas?

Tarmac has unveiled the UK’s first battery electric concrete mixer featuring a hand-drawn design by an eight-year-old competition winner from Wolverhampton, in the West Midlands.

Bradfords Building Supplies has taken its first delivery of Tarmac bagged cement loaded on Pallet LOOP pallets into its Glastonbury branch, marking the first end-to-end trial of a new circular economy pallet re-use scheme for the UK construction sector.

On the one-year anniversary of a project designed to boost trout numbers in Yorkshire, a study by a national conservation charity has highlighted the initiative is proving a success.

From the Staffordshire Moors to the Humber Estuary, a source-to-sea walking path alongside the River Trent is taking big steps towards completion thanks to a £68,194 donation from the Tarmac Landfill Communities Fund.