A Scout hut in Radford will have a £20,000 refurbishment to help prepare for Coventry’s Gang Show.

This year will have the 57th Gang Show in the city, where scouts and guides stage a variety performance to showcase a wide range of talents.

Laker are part of the team from HomeWorks, the in-house repairs and maintenance provider for Whitefriars Housing, that will lead a renovation at the Satchwell Centre, in Mossdale Close.

09 October 2018

Laker staff pulled out their baking dishes to raise an impressive £205 for Macmillan Cancer Support. Organised by our own Rebecca Doherty and Shelley Foti, the Laker staff baked over 20 different cakes and the coffee morning was well attended. Some of the team really did showcase some very impressive baking skills, with Red Velvet Cup Cakes baked by IT Manager Karl Arthur winning ‘Star Baker’ for our Midlands Team, and Savoury Cheese, Ham and Mustard Puffs by Sam Perugini our Contracts Administrator in the South.

09 October 2018

The procurement body Fusion21 has named 37 firms for frameworks to support housing associations and local authorities with a wide range of reactive maintenance works.
Twenty-four firms have been named preferred partners for the Reactive Repairs & Maintenance Framework and Laker are pleased to have been named one of them.

02 October 2018

The Laker Essex team are settling into a new office this week after a move to new, larger premises.
The new office situated in Essex House, Josselin Road, Basildon has a bright, modern board room, new kitchen and plenty of parking and office space for our expanding team in the south.

19 July 2018

Laker BMS Ltd will today be celebrating its 40th Anniversary!
On 13th June 1978 Jim Lakey, with his father in law and brother in law, established RD Styler (Builders) Ltd, which would later evolve into Laker BMS Ltd. Jim Lakey, who had originally entered the building trade as an Apprentice, used his experience to develop Lakers culture into what we see today – a family owned SME business with our customers firmly at the forefront.

13 June 2018

The Laker team have had the pleasure of fundraising and gathering donations this year for the Coventry Cyrenians Christmas Appeal 2017. Some members of the team have spent evenings knitting scarves and gloves, to include with other items such as Mince Pies, Chocolate, Socks and Toiletries, as well as over £100 of monetary donations.

21 December 2017

Laker have raised over £160 during this years annual Macmillan Coffee Morning.

19 October 2017

Laker has supported the Narthex Sparkhill Foodbank with a donation of decorating materials to support their office move. Narthex serve local people in crisis with emergency food, toiletries and household products, as well as supporting them through direct referrals for money and debt advice, carer support, domestic abuse and job searching, or through services such as signposting. Narthex have recently moved to new premises that were in much need of some essential decorating works and Laker were pleased to have been able to supply some of these materials including, paint, gloss, brushes, rollers and dust sheets.

13 June 2017

We are extremely proud to announce that Stuart Woodward from Laker and HomeServe Walsall & Sutton has been crowned a regional winner in the West Midlands category at the 2017 Heating Installer Awards, which celebrate the unsung heroes of the UK’s heating industry.

24 March 2017

Laker are thrilled to have been nominated in the Greater Birmingham Chamber of Commerce Awards in the category ‘Excellence in Customer Service’ The awards will be presented on 30 March at the ICC, at which the host will again be broadcaster Gyles Brandreth, back by popular demand.

21 February 2017