Category: Community

“Going into work experience at McCanns, I was very nervous about making a good impression and people not being as friendly. Everyone at McCanns showed that it wasn’t something to be worried about, but to look forward to.” Last week, McCann’s welcomed Taylor to our team, a GCSE student from a local school in Nottingham!

Civil and Electrical engineering play a vital role in shaping our modern world. Civil engineering is a field with significant impact on the built environment and infrastructure, from designing and constructing buildings and bridges, to upgrading critical highways, footways and cycleways. However, it’s important to recognise that these activities also have a profound effect on

To celebrate International Women’s Day 2025, we sat down with our Strategic Highways Director, Catherine Brookes, to talk about her career, and what it means to be a woman in the Civil Engineering industry and how she feels being the first board director at McCann who is female.   Thank you for taking the time

As environmental sustainability becomes increasingly critical to our sector and others, we are proud to be leading the way with a number of green innovations that enable communities across the UK to thrive.  The London Borough of Hillingdon is a community we have served since 2017, delivering on multi-million pound term maintenance street lighting contracts

With today being International Women’s Day, we felt it was the perfect time to round off our  week-long series of features where we sit down and find out more about some of the amazing women working at McCann. In this fourth and final instalment, we get to know our Head of Planning, Pennie Cooke. Pennie

The third instalment of our week-long International Women’s Day celebration is here, and this time we’re getting to know our Commercial Assistant, Sarah Wright. In a very interesting conversation, Sarah explains why this year’s theme of Inspire Inclusion means so much to her, how McCann creates an inclusive environment for its workforce and how the

We’re continuing our week-long celebration for International Women’s Day by turning our attention to another valuable member of our team. Our second article sees us get to know our Pre-Construction Manager, Jenna Holmes. Jenna has a wealth of industry experience behind her and takes this opportunity to explain the breadth of a Pre-Construction Manager’s role,

International Women’s Day is an annual celebration of the social, cultural, economic and political achievements of women around the world, focusing on topics such as gender equality, reproductive rights and challenges surrounding discrimination. The day is also a great opportunity to highlight those who make a difference to people’s lives – whether that’s in a

We have recently purchased 250 copies of ‘When I Grow Up’, a storybook which aims to inspire and engage young people with STEM subjects with the intention of making the books available to children within our local communities and amongst our staff and their families.  ‘When I Grow Up’ follows twins Harry and Amy who

We’re playing our part in supporting grassroots football after McCann recently committed to sponsoring and becoming front of shirt sponsor for Darlington All Stars Under 13s. All Stars Under 13s play across County Durham, Teesside and North Yorkshire, and McCann has agreed to sponsor the club for the forthcoming season while also being unveiled as

On Saturday 30th September, a number of our employees will be embarking on the Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge to raise money in support of the Long Eaton and Sawley branch of The Trussell Trust, and we need your support. The Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge gives participants the opportunity to take on roughly 25 miles of

Deaf Awareness Week takes place from 1st – 7th May 2023 and aims to bring to light the barriers that people who are deaf and hard of hearing face, while promoting the importance of social inclusion for the deaf community. As a company, we are committed to promoting equality of opportunity amongst our workforce, ensuring

As part of their work across the UK’s highways, our Operatives must be mindful of dangers which could affect themselves, suppliers and members of the public – ensuring that safety is a top priority at all times. Three of our team were recently presented with McCann’s Mental Wellbeing Award after speed of thought and a

While our team continues to work across the length and breadth of the UK delivering community-defining infrastructure projects, we’re ensuring that we maintain our commitment to supporting local communities, charities and organisations through a range of social value activities and initiatives.  Last month, several of our employees joined colleagues from across National Highways’ Supplier Delivery

As a company dedicated to giving back to the local community, we’re delighted to have been able to donate a suite of laptops to local Leicestershire school, St Barnabas C of E Primary School. At McCann, we are committed to supporting the communities local to us and actively look to find ways in which we

This month we’re recognising the courageous actions of four of our operatives after they alerted residents to a fire which broke out at a residential property in Nottingham. Darren Jude, Jim Halpin, Nigel Hallam and Ashley Hallam were carrying out night works as part of our city-wide build contract in Nottingham for CityFibre, when Darren

We’re delighted to have been able to donate £6,000 to a local school recently to cover the cost of Floppy’s Phonics – a programme designed to aid the development of reading and learning for children. Toton Banks Road Infants and Nursery School recently reached out to McCann for a donation towards investment in a new

We recently delivered a range of local community social value works to support the refurbishment of King’s Community Church in Oldbury, Sandwell, as part of our ongoing lighting infrastructure improvement works with Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council. Our team is working with the West Midlands-based Local Authority to deliver street lighting replacement and improvements after securing

One Nottinghamshire school recently received a generous donation of high-visibility vests from our team as part of a new initiative to keep children safe during their commute to and from school. We recently began reaching out to schools within close proximity to our projects to see if they would like to receive a donation of

We recently supported National Highways with ‘drumming up’ support for one Nottinghamshire school, after St Peter’s Cross Keys C of E Academy in Farndon requested help with the creation of its forest project in the school grounds. The staff and students at St Peter’s were in need of cable drums to help them create this