Monthly Archives: August 2017

On Saturday 26th August, the GM Fundraising Paddle2Pedal team arrived at Hope House Children’s Hospices to complete their challenge, which saw them canoe 100 miles, abseil 150ft, cycle 120 miles and raise over £90,000 for the hospices so far. Profix Group MD Alan Sadler supported the team and comments: “What an event! This was the first all-female challenge GM Fundraising has ever organised and the 12-strong team certainly gave the boys a run for their money, myself included. Having been involved with these events for the past 12 years, you develop certain expectations of an inaugural event but the girls smashed it in every way. Each and every one worked really hard but also enjoyed themselves,.

The GM Fundraising Paddle2Pedal team are part way through their challenge, having completed the “paddle” section which saw them canoe 100 miles down the River Wye from Glasbury to Chepstow. As if they haven’t done enough, the team did an abseil down the rock face of Symonds Yat yesterday afternoon. Alan Sadler, Profix Group’s MD is supporting the challenge. “It has been an absolute honour supporting this team of ladies take part in this truly tough challenge,” says Alan. “It has been a pleasure to see the team growing together and supporting each other 100%. Even though there have been some tough days on the river they have never lost sight of the reason why they.

Tim Herbert joined Grand Entrance in 2015 as a manufacturing apprentice. He has since worked hard to achieve two NVQ’s and an EAL qualification and become a fully-fledged Window & Door Manufacturing Operative. “Working for Grand Entrance is great,” says Tim. “I joined when I was 20 and since I started they have trained and supported me at every step to gain qualifications relevant to the job I want to do. I get a lot of help from the team, time to study and the opportunity to better myself that many other employers don’t offer. I am looking forward to continuing my training with Grand Entrance; the next step for me is learning more about estimating.

Profix Group MD Alan Sadler is gearing up to support the latest GM Fundraising challenge, but this time to support a group of 12 ladies from the fenestration industry as they prepare to take part in the first ever all-female GM Fundraising challenge, Paddle2Pedal. In less than 2 weeks, the team will be setting out to canoe 100 miles down the River Wye from Glasbury. Paddling approximately 20 miles a day, they will finish up in Chepstow on Day 5. Here they will abseil down the rock face at Symonds Yat, before getting on their bikes to cycle 120 miles to Hope House Children’s Hospice in Oswestry where they’ll meet the very children and families.

Flush sash windows are a familiar part of the UK’s architectural landscape.  Widely used throughout the 1800’s, many of them are still in place today and  with windows over 100 years old, it is not surprising that many are draughty, rotten and don’t work properly.  A staggering 26% of heat loss escapes through windows alone, making them a key area of improvement when it comes to renovation.  Balancing the requirements of conservation with improving a building’s energy efficiency is a nightmare and replacement timber windows are expensive and may not offer all the efficiency benefits that comes with PVC-U.  The R9 Window Collection from Profix provides a cost effective, efficient and elegant alternative. The R9 collection.