The Hill Group teamed up with BBC One’s ‘DIY SOS: The Big Build’ to transform a dilapidated caretaker’s cottage into a state-of-the-art new community hub for Essex-based mental health charity, Butterfly Effect Wellbeing. Hill rallied its local supply chain and joined forces with presenter Nick Knowles, the DIY SOS team, and stars from Eastenders to deliver a game[1]changing community project. Aired on the run-up to Christmas 2023, the programme was filmed on location at the site of a former school in Latton Bush, Harlow.
Responding to an appeal for support by the programme’s producers, Hill brought together volunteer staff, suppliers, and tradespeople to help deliver the project and donated one of the company’s award-winning SoloHaus® homes, which was specially adapted for the charity and now serves as a brand-new therapy room for classes and support groups. As a result of everyone’s hard work and contributions, the charity now has the capacity to support up to 200 people suffering from mental health issues every week, a significant increase from the 10 people the charity was able to support prior to the project.
SoloHaus® homes are purpose-built, modular, single-person dwellings created for Hill’s Foundation 200 initiative, a £15million pledge to design, manufacture, and donate 200 quality homes to homeless charities and local authorities by 2025. The SoloHaus® was specially adapted for the charity before being carefully installed on-site to create a spacious and welcoming new holistic garden room with large, bifold glass doors where health and wellbeing classes, including meditation, yoga, and holistic healing, will be held. This new, additional space beyond the main building allows the charity to run paid-for sessions to generate revenue that can be invested back into the charity to support its core services.
Tom Hill, Managing Director at The Hill Group, comments: “This was a remarkable project, and I’d like to thank DIY SOS: The Big Build for bringing the show to Harlow at Christmas. Special recognition must go to Angela for her unwavering dedication to the community, and this crucial project will substantially enhance the support she can provide to local people when they need it most. I want to extend my thanks to all the tradespeople and suppliers whose generosity and dedication made this transformative project possible.”
Angela Hannibal, founder of Butterfly Effect Wellbeing said: “Being part of DIY SOS and getting this amazing new facility is a dream come true. I was speechless when the big reveal took place. I’m so pleased to have done all this in memory of my mum, which allows us to help more people who, like her, find themselves facing tough times.”
Source: www.hill.co.uk
www.butterflyeffectwellbeing.com
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