Projects undertaken by Capita Symonds' Cumbria
partnership have won a number of regional and national awards,
including:
- BALI National Landscape Awards
2010 Winner: ‘Land Renewal and Regeneration
Scheme’: Barrow Waterfront. Winner: ‘Hard Landscaping
Construction (cost between £300,000 and £1.5m) category: Witton
Country Park
- British Construction Industry Awards
2010 Winner: Small Civil Engineering Project (up to
£3m): Temporary Workington Bridge
- North West Regional Construction Awards 2010
Winner 'Best Practice' Award: M6 extension, Carlisle to Guards
Mill. Winner 'Business' Award: M6 extension, Carlisle to Guards
Mill
- British Construction Industry Awards
2009 Highly Commended: 'Best Practice Award': M6 Carlisle
to Guardsmill Extension, also shortlisted in ‘Major Projects’ and
‘The Prime Minister’s Better Public Building’ categories
- Highways Agency Major Awards 2009 Winner
‘Cost’, ‘Target Zero’ & ‘Road Safety’ categories: M6 Carlisle
to Guards Mill (with Carillion)
- Cumberland News Countryside Tourism Award
2003: aka Herdie, for outstanding contribution to the tourism
industry in the County awarded to Capita Symonds' Hadrian’s wall
path team
- BALI National Landscape Award for Keswick Town
Centre Enhancement
- CN Group Business Awards Environmental
Sustainability Award – South Walney Nature Reserve
- NWDA Public Space Award Keswick Town Centre
Market Place
Achievements & local support
- Achieved Investors in People (IiP) in
2002 followed by re-recognition in 2005 with the additional
successes of being awarded the Leadership and Management and Work
Life Balance Standard and are now an Investors in People Gold
Standard Organisation with the additional recognition of Health and
Well Being award in 2010
- Achieved Chartermark in 2007 followed by
re-recognition to the new Customer Excellence award in 2009
- Achieved Investors in Excellence in 2009
- Since 2001 have raised £150,000 for local
charities and in 2010 exceeded a target of £10,000 fundraising for
the Great North Air Ambulance.
- Capita Symonds has developed an ongoing relationship with
Glenmore Trust who provide a supportive and enabling environment on
Heathlands Farm (Harker, Carlisle) for people with learning
disabilities in the Carlisle and Eden districts. Through
supported volunteering, staff took part in activities such as
planting trees, gardening and painting.
- Capita has also sponsored the Cumbria Inward Investment Agency
donating £75,000 as well as supporting the Cumbria Community
Foundation donating £10,000 to their 2009 flood appeal