Community Impact
Sacyr UK, in partnership with Acorn, has launched an innovative online community platform designed to enhance collaboration, develop skills, and drive social impact around the new Velindre Cancer Centre. Our platform allows us to capture data to understand the needs of our local community, it gives people a voice, ensuring we align our initiatives to support where we feel it is most needed, with the overarching goal of progressively cultivating an even more positive outlook of the project among users over time.
Julie Morgan MS, Senedd Member for Cardiff North, officially introduced the platform at an event in the Pierhead Building, Cardiff Bay, with charity associates, local councillors, voluntary organisations, and supply chain partners in attendance.
The platform connects businesses, volunteers, and job seekers while offering STEM tutorials and access to a tool library. With this initiative, Sacyr UK aims to leave a lasting legacy beyond construction, strengthening collaborative bonds and creating new opportunities for the South Wales community.
To register to the platform, click here
Community Platform
Whilst there are so many elements to the platform, here are just some of them:
- Captures sentiment data through question sets.
- Manages Volunteer opportunities.
- Provides a notification and community forum area.
- Has a Tool Library booking facility and how to guides.
- Learning and enrichment – courses for individuals and schools.
- CV Builder to support those entering the world of work.
- Jobs board to advertise employment opportunities.
- Social Value training module to educate everyone on its importance.
- Community Benefits Reporting – Acorn/Sacyr’s ability to show how much more we are adding to the local community, as well as building the new Velindre cancer centre!
ACORN has developed a Community Benefits Programme founded on five major pillars:
1. Futures: invest in skills and employment to enable local communities to achieve their potential.
2. Thrive: contribute to the wellbeing of South Wales communities and their environments, promoting good health and environmental sustainability.
3. Prosper: promote Small Medium Enterprises (SME) and social business engagement, investing in local communities through our supply chain.
4. Embrace: foster inclusion and promote equality and diversity across the workforce and local communities
5. Think: establish mechanisms that support collaborative learning to ensure, as a partnership, we build on what works.
