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Skills 4 Work team transform outdoor space at hawasker school

07 October, 2022

Pupils at Hawsker School will benefit from a new reflection garden after an extensive renovation project by the Skills 4 Work team.

Pupils at Hawsker School will benefit from a new reflection garden after an extensive renovation project by the Skills 4 Work team.

Skills 4 Work is a social enterprise, operated by North Yorkshire County Council and supported by Anglo American, that helps young people from disadvantaged backgrounds develop the skills needed to gain full time employment whilst undertaking projects to benefit the local community.

Their team transformed a disused and overgrown section of the school grounds into a space for the children to read books and plant flowers.

Helen Thompson, Executive Head of Hawsker School, said: “We are incredibly grateful to the Skills 4 Work team for their hard work and support. The new reflection garden will provide an absolute wealth of learning opportunities for our children, whilst also providing a beautiful quiet, peaceful space for children to reflect during break times.

“We would like to say a massive thank you to Anglo American for this provision, which will make a significant impact within our school community.”

Skills 4 Work Supervisor Jason Fenwick, added: “It was great to transform what had become an overgrown area of the school grounds into a welcoming space for the children to use.”

Matt Parsons, General Manager External Affairs at Anglo American, added: “We’re proud to support the Skills 4 Work programme. The projects they take on in and around the communities near our Woodsmith mine site benefit local people, whilst offering young people a route into employment.

"We hope the children at Hawsker School enjoy using their new reflection garden."

For further information, please contact:

Daniel Gregory, Communications Manager
[email protected] / Tel: +44 (0) 7890 049400

Notes to editors:

Anglo American is a leading global mining company and our products are the essential ingredients in almost every aspect of modern life. Our portfolio of world-class competitive operations, with a broad range of future development options, provides many of the future-enabling metals and minerals for a cleaner, greener, more sustainable world and that meet the fast growing every day demands of billions of consumers.

With our people at the heart of our business, we use innovative practices and the latest technologies to discover new resources and to mine, process, move and market our products to our customers – safely and sustainably.

As a responsible producer of diamonds (through De Beers), copper, platinum group metals, premium quality iron ore and metallurgical coal for steelmaking, and nickel – with crop nutrients in development – we are committed to being carbon neutral across our operations by 2040.

More broadly, our Sustainable Mining Plan commits us to a series of stretching goals to ensure we work towards a healthy environment, creating thriving communities and building trust as a corporate leader. We work together with our business partners and diverse stakeholders to unlock enduring value from precious natural resources for the benefit of the communities and countries in which we operate, for society as a whole, and for our shareholders. Anglo American is re-imagining mining to improve people’s lives.

The Woodsmith Project involves digging two 1 mile deep mine shafts at Woodsmith Mine near the village of Sneaton near Whitby, and a 23 mile transportation tunnel to a processing facility and port on Teesside. In a world first, most of the surface infrastructure at Woodsmith Mine is being built underground and the site landscaped to minimise the visual impact on the surrounding countryside. It will mine a giant deposit of the mineral polyhalite, which will be sold as a natural, low carbon environmentally friendly fertiliser.

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