{"id":130494,"date":"2023-07-28T11:27:57","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T10:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=130494"},"modified":"2023-07-28T11:32:04","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T10:32:04","slug":"sir-robert-mcalpine-32m-impact-manchester-north-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/sir-robert-mcalpine-32m-impact-manchester-north-west\/130494\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir Robert McAlpine drives \u00a332m impact from Co-op Academy Belle Vue"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Sir Robert McAlpine generated nearly \u00a332m in social impact for Manchester and the North West region during the development of Co-op Academy Belle Vue, according to social and economic value report<\/h2>\n<p>Delivered by Sir Robert McAlpine, the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/co-op-academy-belle-vue-in-east-manchester-delivered-by-sir-robert-mcalpine\/119973\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> 1,200 place Co-op Academy Belle Vue<\/a> welcomed its first cohort of pupils in September 2022.<\/p>\n<p>During construction, Sir Robert McAlpine and its supply chain partners worked to create new jobs, apprenticeships, host T-Level and work experience and support local community groups.<\/p>\n<p>Social Return on Investment (SROI)\u00a0is achieved through the delivery of social value key performance indicator targets.<\/p>\n<h3>SROI targets for Co-op Academy Belle Vue included:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Jobs created<\/li>\n<li>Apprenticeships supported<\/li>\n<li>T-level students hosted<\/li>\n<li>Work experience offered<\/li>\n<li>Charities and community groups engaged.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To help close the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/hr-skills-news\/skills-shortage-140000-vacancies-construction-trades-uk\/129918\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">construction skills shortage<\/a>, 8 T-Level students were supported, and 16 work experience placements were offered across the project.<\/p>\n<p>Sir Robert McAlpine and supply chain partners also hosted 18 apprenticeships, 34% of whom were from Manchester City Council postcodes.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/indd.adobe.com\/view\/efaaff57-37b5-4a2f-945f-1367624d62a5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Co-op Academy Belle Vue Social and Economic Impact Report <\/a>also revealed that the project helped to raise \u00a39,648 through charity work, and 58 new jobs were created, 43% of which were from\u00a0Manchester City Council postcodes.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Quinn, sector director, Sir Robert McAlpine, commented: \u201cPurpose beyond profit lies at the heart of all we do. Seeing what this means in practice in this new report is testament to how that principle has been embraced by our team members and supply chain partners.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hopefully the report will become part of a wider conversation about the importance of sustainability and community impact in our industry.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Robert McAlpine generated nearly \u00a332m in social impact for Manchester and the North West region during the development of Co-op Academy Belle Vue, according to social and economic value report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[172731],"tags":[3649,660,94828],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-130494","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-projects","7":"tag-education","8":"tag-skills-shortage","9":"tag-social-value"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sir Robert McAlpine drives \u00a332m impact from Co-op Academy Belle Vue<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Sir Robert McAlpine generated \u00a332m in social impact and created 58 new jobs during the development of Co-op Academy Belle Vue\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/sir-robert-mcalpine-32m-impact-manchester-north-west\/130494\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sir Robert McAlpine drives \u00a332m impact from Co-op Academy Belle Vue\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sir Robert McAlpine generated \u00a332m in social impact and created 58 new jobs during the development of Co-op Academy Belle Vue\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/sir-robert-mcalpine-32m-impact-manchester-north-west\/130494\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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