Category: Corporate Social Engagement

Focus Ireland Shine a Light 2023

Tandem has participated in the Focus Ireland Shine a Light campaign for the fourth year running.

This annual event is hugely impactful in enabling Focus Ireland to undertake its valuable work. Focus Ireland works with people who are homeless or at risk of losing their homes across Ireland.

The event in 2022 resulted in:

240,000 Meals provided.
110 Young people exiting foster care supported.
16,500 people provided with advice and advocacy.
100 Families placed in long term accommodation for one year.

Tandem is delighted to support Focus Ireland and their goal to eradicate homelessness in Ireland. This year, Tandem raised €1,140 for the charity! Many thanks to the participants and to all our sponsors.

Author Tim MulhallPosted on 17th October 2023Categories Corporate Social Engagement

L’Arche Gardening

Tandem has partnered with L’Arche Cork for 2023. L’Arche provides assisted living facilities and a day centre for people with learning difficulties.

L’Arche is developing a horticulture project and sensory garden in their day centre. In the future, they will have a café on site with the garden providing organic, farm to fork produce.
This year L’Arche will introduce a coffee pod, enabling their service users to gain new skills, engage in meaningful work and form social relationships as part of the community.

We were delighted to volunteer some time to help with the many jobs needed in preparation of the garden. We will be back again soon to continue the work!
Thanks to Meadhbh, Dale, Anthony, and all the staff and service users that made us feel so welcome.

Author Tim MulhallPosted on 16th October 202316th October 2023Categories Corporate Social Engagement

Bake Sale in Aid of Charity Partners – L’Arche Cork

Tandem held a cake sale in aid of charity partners L’Arche Cork on Wednesday 6th September. L’Arche Cork provides both assisted

living facilities and a day centre for people with learning difficulties.

L’Arche owns 5 residential properties and projects at the day centre in Togher include a sensory Garden, a cafe and a wall mural.

Tandem is delighted to have raised €500. Thanks to our many bakers for contributing their tasty treats and thanks to everyone who

donated to our fundraiser.

Author Tim MulhallPosted on 12th September 202312th September 2023Categories Corporate Social EngagementTags Corporate Social Responsibility, Engineering consultancy, Partnering For Success, Tandem Project Management

2023 Corporate Social Responsibility

Tandem’s CSR team and volunteers have been busy so far this year and participated in the Focus Ireland Big Busk, Daffodil Day in aid of the Irish Cancer Society and Darkness into Light in aid of Pieta House.

The Focus Ireland Big Busk took place on 10^th of March 2023. Nationwide, buskers, choirs, barbershop quartets and bands volunteered their time to entertain commuters and passers by as well as encouraging them to donate. Tandem’s volunteers joined in throughout the day to collect money at Kent Station Cork. We helped to raise €4,000 in Kent Station and over €346,000was raised nationally for the charity.

The 24^{th of} March was Daffodil Day in aid of the Irish Cancer Society. Tandem held a cake sale over two days and raised €370.00 for the Irish Cancer Society.

On the 6^{th of} May, Tandem staff participated in Darkness into Light, raising over €900.00 for Pieta House. In various locations nationwide, our colleagues got up at 3:30am to commence their walk shortly after, starting to walk before dawn and finishing up at sunrise.

Tandem’s charity partners for 2023 are Focus Ireland and L’Arche Ireland. We look forward to some volunteering opportunities with both these charities in the very near future.

Author Tim MulhallPosted on 24th May 20232nd June 2023Categories Corporate Social EngagementTags Corporate Social Responsibility, Partnering For Success, Tandem, Tandem Project Management

Transition Year – February 2023

Tandem was delighted to host eight students from five schools in Cork including two girls from Ursuline Secondary School in Blackrock, and six boys from Ashton, St. Francis College Rochestown, the Christian Brothers and Carrigaline Community School.

Tandem delivered a full programme of events for the week to engage the students with a variety of engineering disciplines. Disciplines included Process Engineering, Building Service Engineering, Civil / Structural Engineering, BIM, Electrical Engineering and Project Controls.

Presentations to the students included education and career paths to achieve a career in that discipline, definitions and explanations of that discipline and the type of work involved. The students were then given an engineering task related to what they had learned.

Each day students were asked to work on a presentation of what they had learned and what their experience had been, and at the end of the week the students delivered those presentations to Tandem staff.

Tandem is delighted with the feedback from the students and at the end of the week, all felt that they would now consider a career in engineering. A great result, and we will look forward to watching their careers unfold.

Author pm_jdu88-tandem.5Posted on 3rd March 20233rd March 2023Categories Company News, Corporate Social EngagementTags CSR, Partnering For Success, Tandem Project Management, Transition Year Programme

The Rainbow Club: 10th Anniversary

Congratulations to The Rainbow Club Cork on hosting an amazing fundraising event, their 10th Anniversary Masquerade Ball, at the Carrigaline Court Hotel & Leisure Centre on the 15th of October.

Well done to everyone involved in making it a spectacular event.

Tandem is delighted to support The Rainbow Club, who provide autism services and support to over 1,000 families each week.

For further information on The Rainbow Club:

www.rainbowclub.ie

Author pm_jdu88-tandem.5Posted on 24th October 2022Categories Corporate Social EngagementTags Corporate Social Responsibility, Engineering consultancy, Engineering Consultancy Cork, Engineers Ireland, Partnering For Success, Project Management, Project Management Cork, Tandem, Tandem Project Management

Focus Ireland:Shine A Light Night

On Friday, 14th October, Tandem Project Management Ltd. took part in Focus Ireland’s #ShineALight fundraising campaign. Well done to all the participants and many thanks to our sponsors who helped us to reach our goal of raising €1,000 for the charity!

Author pm_jdu88-tandem.5Posted on 24th October 202224th October 2022Categories Corporate Social EngagementTags Corporate Social Responsibility, Engineering consultancy, Engineering Consultancy Cork, Focus Ireland, Partnering For Success, Project Management, Project Management Cork, Tandem Project Management

Garden Makeover 2022

Tandem has partnered with Focus Ireland for three years. As a charity, Focus Ireland aims to stem the tide of homelessness by stopping people from becoming homeless, and where possible, providing housing for those that need it.

On 29^th and 30^thof July, Team Tandem set to work undertaking a garden makeover on a Focus Ireland property in Cork. The remit for the project was to provide a low-maintenance, outdoor living space for the family to enjoy.

The work commenced with the removal of all of the grass area in both the front and back gardens. A raised flower bed was constructed from wooden railway sleepers to provide a seating area around an existing patio. Other work involved cleaning, painting walls, painting fences, hauling heavy wheelbarrows, weeding, planting, hedge clipping, spreading gravel and bark, installing a washing line, fixing a fence in place and when all was done, power-washing the pavements. The volunteers taking part really ‘dug’ deep to get everything completed within two days.

Focus Ireland have informed us that the family are thrilled with the results of the project.

Many thanks to Peter Dowdall (The Irish Gardener) for his support on this project and his expertise in designing the garden. Our thanks also to the Tandem volunteers for all of their hard work on the project.

Garden Makeover Video 2022

Garden Makeover Gallery

Author pm_jdu88-tandem.5Posted on 11th July 202222nd September 2022Categories Corporate Social EngagementTags Corporate Social Responsibility, Partnering For Success, Project Management, Project Management Cork, Tandem Project Management

National Volunteering Week- The Rainbow Club Cork

To mark National Volunteering Week, Tandem Project Management Ltd. spent the morning clearing an area of land at The Rainbow Club Cork. The area is being cleared for a polytunnel and raised beds that, when planted, will allow the café to offer farm to fork produce and will also support their future cookery school.

The Rainbow Club Cork support 570+ autistic children, young adults and their families each week.

Author pm_jdu88-tandem.5Posted on 10th June 202210th June 2022Categories Corporate Social EngagementTags Corporate Social Responsibility, Partnering For Success, Project Management, Project Management Cork, Tandem Project Management

Irish Cancer Society – Daffodil Day Fundraiser

Tandem is supporting the Irish Cancer Society’s Daffodil Day fundraising throughout the month of March.

In 2020, an estimated 44,000 people in Ireland received a cancer diagnosis. That is 120 people per day, or 5 people per hour, hearing the words “you have cancer!”.

Tandem’s walking group have signed up to the walking challenge to fundraise, if you would like to support their efforts, you can do so here. Tandem also hosted a weeklong coffee morning during the week of Friday, March 25^th, to raise funds for Daffodil day.