
Initiatives aimed at reducing crime – £200 donation and 9 hours volunteering with “Lives Not Knives”.

A E Yates Ltd. donated £200 overall to a youth-led charity called “Lives Not Knives” that work with disadvantaged young people to create projects that fight knife crime. On Friday 17th May 24 a group of the charity’s young people filmed at a subway closest to Chester Road near our Stretford Kingsway which will go on social media as a campaign; our donation of £200 funded this particular project. Our team also volunteered their time to assist with the filming project and we stopped works on our site for a short period as per requested by the youth group to better their video sound quality.
Volunteering with Bread and Butter Thing, a charity organisation in Stretford.


The Bread and Butter Thing is a charity that makes food, sanitary and cleaning products affordable for low income families and people that otherwise couldn’t afford these items with the current living cost crisis.
Saffron Ramsey and Adele Carroll from our Social Value team volunteered 6 hours on the 9th of May 2024, and this involved manual labour such as packing the vans with crates/boxes of food and helping with other tasks. A E Yates Ltd. intend to volunteer with the charity again in the future to ensure a prolonged partnership.
EDI training for site staff and our supply chain 18.04.24


Mark Lesley, our Compliance Manager hosted an EDI training at our Stretford Kingsway project on the 18.04.24 and the session lasted 2 hours and A E Yates Ltd. had 12 attendees overall.
EDI training is a regular occurrence on our sites and our intentions are to uphold a welcoming, friendly site where everyone feels safe and listened to. In these sessions we share the consequences of bullying, harassment, racism and more. This is to ensure staff are reminded that we do not tolerate poor behaviour so that our sites remain a great environment to work. Mental health conversations are also a large aspect of these sessions; Mark Lesley is one of our 15 mental health first aiders, so he has been trained to deal with any difficult responses or questions during or after the session.
Mock Interviews at Altrincham Grammar School – Mick & Saffron 5 hours each (10 hours overall)

Mick & Saffron conducted mock interviews to high school pupils which involved asking them questions about their future job aspirations and scoring the pupils on their enthusiasm, posture, and length of their answers during the interviews. At the end they were able to ask us questions and we were able to provide life advice on how they could achieve their career goals. Some of the pupils shared that they found it useful and said they’d never done anything like it before.
Local direct employees – 8 local people hired so far
Hiring local people in Stretford/Trafford will boost the local economy by creating jobs.
A E Yates Ltd. sponsored Gorse Hill Studio’s Pride Parade 2024!


A E Yates Ltd. are working with Wellfield Garden Allotments, Altrincham to build a disability access route.

Enterprise Day with Our Futures – Our Marketing and Social Value Manager, Saffron Ramsey and our Contracts Manager, Mick O’Hanlan volunteered and the session consisted of young people pretending to sell a product to a company (A E Yates Ltd.) and we could negotiate with them.

