May 2024

New owners of countryside pub upgrade garden furniture ready for summer!

Jack and Lucy Fry reopened the Odd Wheel Pub in Wembury in July 2023 and have completely revolutionised it to become the thriving centre of the community. Home to a wide range of innovative events – a Beer & Ale Festival, Dog Show and Quiz nights – plus some of the highest quality food in Plymouth it’s clear to see why they’re going from strength to strength.

A key part of the success of the pub is their stylish beer garden, which features a stunning range of maintenance-free outdoor furniture by DCW Polymers. Jack worked with our Business Development Manager, Emily Almond, to decide the best products to use in the pub garden, to maximise the outdoor covers and make the most efficient use of the space available to them.

Being a new business, Jack also opted to spread the cost of the furniture investment, utilising our 24 month hire purchase plan. Jack commented “The option to have the pub garden furniture on a rent to buy option was so fitting for us at the time. It saved the large capital outlay and gives us the option for purchase at the end of the hire period.”

The Odd Wheel Pub has a stylish mix of our Exeter Dining Sets; Wellington Picnic Benches with back rests; Plymouth A-Frames and Falmouth benches. The pub garden furniture is functional and looks fantastic too. With the pub garden furniture completely maintenance-free, it means Jack and his team can focus on their outstanding menu and community events!

Since their initial order of over 20 units, they have added to their pub garden with our planters and even a custom-made condiments table!
“The team at DCW polymers have been fantastic. From order to delivery every element of the process has been spot on. Emily & the team advised on the recommend items for us to purchase. We ended up having over 20 units in total. I highly recommend DCW Polymers to anyone looking for a sub stainable and long lasting product.”

“The overall experience was phenomenal, easy, quick and simple. I do and will continue to recommend the products”

Jack Fry, Landlord, The Odd Wheel Wembury

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Plymouth Law firm sets New Benchmark in Sustainability

Latest News / By Emily Almond / 08/05/2024

GA Solicitors, a regional law firm headquartered in Plymouth, is taking recycling to a whole new level after having 80 of its plastic bins transformed into a weatherproof picnic bench to donate to a local nursery.

As part of a drive to increase staff recycling, individual waste bins were removed from under the desks of more than 80 staff. With the support of waste management experts, DCW Polymers Ltd, the 200-year-old law firm was able to have all of these recycled to make a piece of weatherproof and durable furniture.

The newly formed picnic bench is to be donated to Little Stars Nursery in Stonehouse, which was agreed upon through GA Solicitors’ partnership with Plymouth charity, Promoting Children in Plymouth (PCiP). This partnership has been in place for some 18 months, with GA Solicitors handing over a cheque worth £4,300 to PCiP in January.

This is not the first time GA Solicitors has provided support to Little Stars Nursery, having previously been involved in PCiP’s reading initiative, Tiny Tales, which aimed to foster enhanced reading skills among children in the city.

Kerry Bidewell, development manager at PCIP, commented “This is a fantastic story which we can all follow full cycle, from simple bins in a law firm to a fantastic and useful bench which will be used by children in an educational setting every day.

“This was a brilliant idea by GA Solicitors and shows what businesses can do when they think outside of the box. Not only have they saved a lot of plastic going to landfill, but they have also supported their local community and continued their relationship with PCiP.”

David Wallis, managing partner of GA Solicitors added: “At GA Solicitors we have been working hard to not only reduce our carbon footprint, but also have a positive impact on the local and wider community. We have planted more than 1400 trees worldwide, supported local pollinators through our partnership with Pollenize, and also updated all of our policies to be as eco-friendly as possible. When it came to removing so many plastic bins, we knew we couldn’t just discard them. DCW Polymers Ltd is a fantastic company and we could not have done this without them.

“We hope all the children and staff at Little Stars can make full use of the picnic bench and that it opens up their outdoor space for more activities and fun.”

This latest initiative by GA Solicitors follows a £4,300 donation to PCiP in January after finishing its time as the firm’s charity of the year. Full details can be found here.

GA Solicitors in Plymouth has selected Children’s Hospice Southwest as its charity of the year for 2024. You can find out more about them here: https://www.chsw.org.uk/

ENDS

27/02/2024

Notes to Editors

GA Solicitors can trace its roots back more than 200 years and has been advising the people and business in the South West for its duration. Originally based in Devonport, the firm gets its initials from Thomas Husband Gill who joined the practice in 1875 and later went into partnership with Albert E. Akaster.

Now one of the region’s leading law firms, the 93-strong team at the Lexcel-accredited LLP, has offices in both Plymouth and Bath. It is ranked in The Legal 500, Chambers UK and Chambers High Net Worth and is structured around eight practice areas, each comprising its own specialist department:

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