Gloucester business park cleaned up in charity litter pick

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Giles Gwinnett

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St Modwen Business Park in Gloucester has been spruced up by a charity litter pick by 19 employees from kitchenware brand ProCook and footwear and workwear distributor Gardiner Bro & Co - companies based on the site.

The event was run by charity Life's a Beach, which was established by ProCook founder and CEO Daniel O’Neill, and which supports the eradication of single use plastics from British beaches and promotes reusable products.

The team collected 12.52kg of litter from the business park, adding to the charity's total this year of 540.77kg.

This year alone, ProCook has volunteered 440 staff hours and collected 133.8kgs of waste with Life's a Beach. It was Gardiner Bros & Co's first clean up with the charity.

Gardiner Bros & Co's chief people officer Simon Collingridge said: "It is a pleasure to be partnering up with our neighbour ProCook to clean up the environment with Life’s a Beach and make it a more beautiful place for everyone to work and enjoy, we look forward to meeting as many of our neighbours as possible and look forward to future events."

ProCook’s ESG and CSR director Sarah Wheatley added: "It's fantastic to see local businesses working together to create a cleaner community.

"We hope to collaborate with Gardiner Bros & Co again and look forward to welcoming other businesses to future cleans up at our home in St Modwen Park."

The litter pick started at the ProCook Headquarters at unit 10, the team of 19 volunteers collected litter in and around St Modwen’s park, which spans 58 acres across 10 different business units, including Gardiners Bros at units 4 and 8.

ProCook runs a website and 58 UK stores from its HQ in Gloucestershire and last year became an accredited B Corp following external recognition of its progressive business operations, which include total carbon mitigation, living wage accreditation and a substantial reduction in plastic product packaging.

Gardiners Bros & Co has almost 300 employees and over 5,000 product lines. Brands include Hush Puppies, Skechers and Cotswold, and workwear brands such as Amblers Safety, CAT, and Timberland Pro.

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Giles Gwinnett

Giles Gwinnett is a writer at The Business Magazine. He has been a journalist for more than 20 years and covered a vast array of topics at a range of media settings - in print and online. After his NCTJ newspaper training, he became a reporter in Hampshire before moving to a news agency in Gloucestershire. In recent years, he has been covering the financial markets along with company news for an investor-focused web portal. His many interests include politics, energy and the environment. He lives in Dorset.