Narberth and Whitland Rotary and trustees of the Army Cadet Hut based at Narberth’s Town Moor car park, have praised a Civil Engineering Contractors’ commitment to the community, after conducting work for free to carry out improvement works to the facility.

Currently the company CR Civil Engineering is working as a sub-contractor on the major highway bypass project between Narberth and Llanddewi Velfrey.

Narberth and Whitland Rotary have been extremely lucky to strike up a working relationship with Matthew Jones, project manager and his site supervisor Martin Davies.

These two gentlemen found out about the Rotary’s ‘self help’ voluntary work that had been undertaking during the past 12 months to renovate the interior of the Army Cadet Hut in the building known as ‘The Bus Stop’.

Having finished re-fitting the kitchen and toilets to a very high standard, the Rotary’s working party had discovered that over the past twenty years there had not been a direct connection of the kitchen waste pipes into a proper drainage system.

Waste water had simply discharged into the grass outside the building.

Organiser, local architect and Rotarian Ken Morgan, realised that this was totally unsanitary and enquired locally if someone might help to solve the problem.

That’s where CR Civil Engineering stepped in. Their founder Carl Roberts has a strong community ethos and his company always seek to help in some way local communities near to any of their major contracts.

As a result Matt and Martin organised a team of five ground workers plus plant, machinery and materials.

“They picked up badly worn and uneven paving slabs, stripped and removed soil to a tip, excavated trenches and laid over 25 metres of underground drainage which they connected to an existing manhole at the far end of the building remote from the kitchen position,” explained Ken.

“All this work was undertaken entirely free of charge.”

The building is run as a Charity and one of the trustees Town Councillor Mrs Sue Rees was absolutely delighted with this very kind gesture.

She said: “The workers were magnificent, polite and they have done a superb job. They even re-laid the paving slabs for us.

“So, we now have a decent level surface to walk around the building.”

Ken added that the work carried out by CR Civil Engineering was way beyond the means and scope of the Rotary members.

“We needed skilled operators and we had that in great measure from the ground workers. We are so grateful to them,” he continued.

“A big thank you is also due to CP Hire of Swansea for donating free of charge the mini digger and dumper which was needed to manoeuvre in the narrow space between the site fence and the building.”

Ken and Sue now plan to hold an open day ‘thank you’ with refreshments for all the current and helpers who have been involved with this project during the past 12 months.