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Coombs once again supported Top Choir Kent. This year’s event held on Saturday 8th April at the Shirley Hall in Canterbury featured a glittering showcase from some of the best amateur choirs in Kent.

The fantastic evening, attended by over 500 people, helped raise over £4000 for charity. Without support of everybody involved the evening would not have been such a success.

Participating choirs spanned the breadth of Kent such as Monday Music, and the Simon Langton Boys Grammar Chamber Choir from Canterbury; The Kentones – last year’s winners and Just Voices from Bromley and the Pharos Chamber Choir from Dover.

University of Kent student, Rebecca Smith, joined our team at the Canterbury Journey project to get some first-hand knowledge to help with her Archaeology and Classics degree.

Thank you to the Cathedral’s archaeologists and Head of Conservation, Heather Newton for an informative talk and tour of the cathedral conservation works.

For more information regarding our Canterbury Journey project can be found here.

Construction has started on our latest Kent County Council school project.

The extension of Brent Primary School will provide a total of 8 new classrooms, two group rooms and a hall. The new energy efficient building is replacing an industrial looking canteen building from the 1940s, which was in a poor state of repair and was expensive to heat due to its poor insulation.

For more information regarding our expansion of Brent Primary School please click here.

Congratulations to Mark Lawford on his promotion to Small Works Manager.

Mark has been with Coombs since 2002 so will be a familiar face to our customers. He takes over the role having assisted in the running of the department since 2013.

Mark will be supported by Darren Needham in the position of Small Works Contracts Manager. Again, Darren is well known by many of our customers having worked for Coombs for over 23 years in a variety of roles including Joiner, Carpenter and working within our Major Contracts team.

Please visit the Responsive Maintenance section under sectors on the website to sign up for the Small Works Team Newsletter.

After 43 exceptional years of hard work and devotion, all here at Coombs would like to wish Small Works General Manager Steve Newman a happy retirement! Thank you for all you’ve done for Coombs and our customers!

With Steve’s well-earned retirement our next longest serving member of staff only has a mere 40 years of service! With the top 3 rounded out by a couple of staff members with 38 years’ service each.

We believe in creating an environment where staff, customers and supply chain members feel valued and can prosper through long term relationships. For further details on how to become part of our approved supply chain or for current career opportunities please visit the Careers or Supply Chain section of our website.