A Skipton building & Joinery company has pledged its support to families across the region by backing a Yorkshire children’s charity.
Embsay-based MW & RF Brewster & Sons Ltd has become a patron of The Principle Trust which provides free respite holidays to children who are underprivileged, disadvantaged, disabled, have life-limiting conditions, mental health issues or who have experienced poverty, trauma or abuse.
The Brewster family have been building in Skipton and the surrounding areas for almost seven decades. In 1956, local builder Maurice Brewster began trading, helped by sons Raymond and Martin Brewster. In 1981 the two brothers established their own building company and, following their retirement in 2005, the business was taken over by cousins Stewart and William Brewster.
During that time the independent family firm has amassed an extensive portfolio of projects throughout the Aire and Wharfe Valleys, including barn and mill conversions, extensions, refurbishment projects, structural alterations, bespoke joinery, preservation and heritage work.
Amongst hundreds of projects the company have built bespoke individual new build properties, and was responsible for a select development of 22 stone-built properties in Grassington; it has also built dozens of new homes on behalf of Yorkshire Housing.
Most of the firm’s clients come via recommendations from local architects such as Craven’s Bowman Riley, Peter Harrison and Groves, as well as Ilkley’s Overton Architects and Harrogate’s Dormer & Co.
Recent projects include a swimming pool in Lothersdale, a full house refurbishment in Hebden and a barn conversion on the outskirts of Harrogate.
Today the firm employs a core team of 12 staff and has successful long-term working relationships with around twenty subcontractors including Skipton-based Tidswell Roofing Ltd and Crosshills plumbing and heating specialists, K R Martin Ltd to name but a few providing a complete turn key project.
Making the announcement, Managing Director of MW & RF Brewster & Sons Ltd, Stewart Brewster said, ‘We’re excited be joining the Principle Trust as patrons and are proud to support their work helping disadvantaged, disabled and poorly children to escape their everyday troubles and create valuable, happy memories.’
Andrew Davies of The Principle Trust commented, ‘We are delighted that Brewster & Sons has joined The Trust as a patron; they are a highly trusted family firm with values which align closely with our own. Thanks to the generosity of firms like Brewsters, The Trust is able to provide much-needed respite breaks for hundreds of families every year.’
Since its launch in 2011, The Principle Trust Children’s Charity has provided respite breaks for 5400 children across the Yorkshire region. For more information visit www.theprincipletrust.co.uk
