As a passionate gardener and member of the local "Purley in Bloom" team, our staff member Dave initiated Project Pumpkin at the beginning of the year. Using a spare plot of land behind the Eltham office, Dave transformed a 20-square-meter patch of wasteland into a pumpkin patch.

The plan was to sow 100 seeds and prepare the area for planting. However, the first batch was quickly devoured by squirrels, leading to a second round of sowing. As the seedlings thrived in Dave’s greenhouse, further preparations were made to ready the land for planting.

Once the seedlings were transferred to the ground, the bees from our seven McHugh beehives took over the task of pollination. Remarkably, the pumpkins grew throughout the summer without the need for fertilizing, weeding, or watering.

With the crop maturing, Dave reached out to clients within the Bromley local authority contract to donate the pumpkins. He connected with the Age Concern Saxon Day Centre in Orpington and the Griffin SEN School in Locks Bottom, both of which were delighted by the donation and used the pumpkins for carving, decoration, and cooking.

After a successful harvest, the largest pumpkin, weighing 9.5 kg, was kept for display in the office reception. The rest were washed and delivered to the Griffin SEN School and the Age Concern Saxon Day Centre. With the help of our boiler engineer, Stephen, the pumpkins were handed over, and staff and residents at both locations were immensely grateful for the generous contribution.

Having supported the Changing Places campaign for several years, B&M McHugh have the knowledge and expertise to help you install a compliant Changing Places toilet within your existing venue. Whether you need to install a facility inside a shopping centre, football stadium, or a cinema, we offer tailored solutions to meet your specifications and budget.

By collaborating with architects, local authorities and business owners, we can advise, construct and support venues across the UK to ensure their facilities comply with BS 8300 standards.

With our complete Changing Places package, we can help your project progress and stay on budget. From helping you to identify the right location for your Changing Places, to support with the design, installation and maintenance, our team aim to take the pressure off you with the delivery of an internal Changing Places toilet.

Our FM team carried out some voluntary removals work for our clients at Bexley Council, moving some furniture from a community care centre to the Bexley Civic Offices where it was going to be repurposed.

Louis, our senior facilities manager, and Ben our PPM engineer, worked alongside one of Bexley's Building Officers, and with the help of 'KTE' our trusty flatbed truck we completed the task needed to support the client's needs with this gesture of goodwill!

Pride Month is a vibrant and inclusive celebration that honours the LQBTQ+ community, their history and achievements.

The annual event serves a powerful reminder of the importance of acceptance, diversity and love.

At B&M McHugh, it’s within our values to create a safe, diverse and inclusive environment for all our people. We build inclusive communities.

Happy Pride Month!

#BuildingInclusivity #Pride #OurValues

Our committed & dedicated HSQE team on one of their many site visits as accompanied by our superb Bid Manager and Contracts Manager.

Great work team; your hard-work, contribution and loyalty is genuinely appreciated!

B&M McHugh supports and highlights World Environment Day on 5th June 2024.

The theme for 2024 is "Our Land, Our Future’. This year, the initiative highlights and emphasizes the importance of restoring land, combating desertification, and enhancing resilience to drought.

Currently, up to 40% of the world's land is degraded, impacting around 3.2 billion people globally due to desertification. Moreover, projections suggest that by 2050, over three-quarters of the world's population will be affected by drought. This year's World Environment Day precedes the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) COP16, which will be held in December 2024 in the United Kingdom.

Human-induced environmental damage is escalating, with serious consequences such as climate change, ecosystem loss, and land desertification. It is our duty as the current generation to protect the environment and restore land and nature to their natural state

Another recent successful project at Winchester Station installing strengthening brackets to the platform canopies.

Great teamwork, great strategy! Huge thanks and appreciation to all involved.

Another excellent CPD event with Titan Mechanical Services yesterday. As a valued supply-chain partner, we look forward to exciting times ahead!



Excellent progress being made on the Gasworks Pipe Bridge refurbishment project in Oxford. We've been overwhelmed by the numerous positive comments and feedback from local residents.

Great work Team!

Several months ago, we invited students and Course Leaders from Abingdon & Witney College to visit our Gasworks Pipe Bridge restoration project in Oxford to view recent progress and discuss a steel donation to help engineering students with their practical skills.

As a result, we recently made the short trip to Abingdon to deliver a selection of surplus steel from the project.

The College’s Head of Faculty for Technology commented: “It’s vitally important for our students and apprentices to get practical welding experience as part of their course. We are extremely grateful for B&M McHugh's kind donation of steel off-cuts which will be invaluable for our students practising their welding skills in the workshop. The exciting partnership will enhance the learning experience for our welding students and will give them the opportunity to hone their skills in the College’s workshop for their future careers.”

We all have to start somewhere and the best way to learn is by practising. It’s great that we can use our off-cuts to help the next generation of local welders and mechanical engineers to forge their careers.

We normally re-use or re-cycle off-cuts, but we felt that this steel donation was an opportunity to help students in our local community. We are looking forward to developing our community outreach and our relationships with other local businesses and organisations.

If you would like to get involved in a similar community initiative with B&M McHugh, please contact david.knapp@mchughltd.co.uk

We enjoyed a thoroughly informative Meet the Buyer event with East Suffolk Council in Lowestoft yesterday. Opened by Cllr Toby Hammond, the event showcased the transformative Town Investment Plan projects to contractors and supply chain.

We also listened to excellent presentations from the procurement team regarding the tender processes, and how ESC evaluate all bids. In addition, we heard about their views on social value, which is increasingly important to East Suffolk Council for investment to benefit their communities, economy and environment.

With such robust plans in place, B&M McHugh look forward to a very strong working relationship going forward!