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Tarmac is proud to announce plans to plant 17,000 trees at Panshanger Park, creating a new woodland as part of the Queen’s Green Canopy initiative in celebration of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.

Young scientists, engineers and technical experts of the future are bringing together their big ideas to help save the planet with the help of Tarmac.

Tarmac’s Mountsorrel Quarry has helped a local football club shore up its defences against vehicle damage by donating material to fill in potholes in its car park. 

A women’s team made their own piece of history when they lifted the silverware in the Tarmac annual football tournament.

Tarmac is helping movie makers and film producers achieve stunning backdrops to their blockbusters with a new online guide to the company’s many and varied quarries and sites that could make the perfect film set. 

Tarmac’s Swinden Quarry, near Grassington in Yorkshire, has shown its support to the local community by sponsoring a miner’s bouse cart as part of the village’s Grassington in Bloom initiative.

Cricketers in the Bedfordshire town of Sandy have been put back at the crease thanks to a donation from the Tarmac Landfill Communities Fund.

The scouts from the 2nd Chester-le-Street Scout Group have ‘knotting’ but thanks for Tarmac’s nearby Birtley team, following a much-needed donation of asphalt.

As part of its corporate commitment to embracing circular economy principles and reducing waste across its operations, Tarmac has signed a charter produced by The Pallet LOOP – an innovative scheme aimed at minimising the consumption of single-use pallets in the construction industry.

The pace of the outfield will be a little quicker at Alrewas Cricket Club this season thanks to a new ride-on mower purchased with a £7,000 donation from the Tarmac Landfill Communities Fund.