New Homes Week is an annual campaign delivered by the Home Builders Federation to provide a positive platform for the homebuilding industry, new build homeowners and potential homebuyers to celebrate the benefits of new build homes.

Each campaign follows a different theme and this year the theme is ‘community’. To mark the occasion, Mulberry Homes is looking back on some of the ways it engaged with local communities over the past year.

Over the course of 2024, the housebuilder supported 23 different charities, local sports teams and clubs, community groups and schools across all of the regions it operates in, including a number of Essex based organisations.

Schools were an important part of the work done in 2024. The larger school projects included donations of gardening kits for National Children’s Gardening Week (25th May to 2nd June) and donations of mental health book bundles in honour of Youth Mental Health Day (19th September). Both sets of donations were given to primary schools across Bedfordshire, Essex, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Warwickshire.

Bryony Collins, Headteacher at Felsted Primary School who received one of the book donations for Youth Mental Health Day, said: “We were very happy when we received this donation from Mulberry Homes. The focus on breaking down the stigma surrounding mental health is important, and these books act as a gateway for children to do that.” 

The housebuilder also celebrated the summer by sponsoring Rayne Primary School’s summer fete with £1,000 and sponsoring Coggeshall summer fete. They then later went on to support Coggeshall again by sponsoring their Christmas Market.

Mulberry Homes also sponsored the Kelvedon and Feering Scouts by donating £700, which went towards the group’s trip to the Jurassic Coast where they hunted for fossils, visited Brownsea Island, the home of scouting, and took part in various other activities including kayaking.

George Bell, Scout Leader at Kelvedon and Feering Scouts, said at the time: “All the scouts are looking forward to going Dorset in August and are very grateful to Mulberry Homes for their donation towards the trip. It means we can do more activities whilst including kayaking and a water park”.

Sophie Leathley, Senior Brand and Marketing Manager at Mulberry Homes, said: “We are incredibly proud of the work we have done with charities, sports teams, schools and local groups over 2024. Supporting local communities is incredibly important to us at Mulberry Homes and we are delighted that New Homes Week has afforded us the opportunity to look back on some of the great work we have done, and we look forward to supporting more groups and organisations in 2025.”

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