5 minutes with … Paula Baleson at Beard Construction

2025-11-21T07:00:00

The firm’s social value manager on moving from South Africa, building her team at Beard, job satisfaction and the dairy product that goes with everything

What are you most proud of in your career to date?

Building our social value framework and team. After working in communications for Beard, I was appointed as the firm’s first social value manager in January 2024. Since then, I have established a fantastic team with a dedicated social value coordinator in each of our regional offices and formalised Beard’s approach to social value through our framework. We generated £8.5m in social value for local communities in 2024 through on and off-site initiatives.

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