We’ve supported Havering
student to receive scholarship from Collado Collins to pursue “dream”
architecture career.
We’re pleased to announce that we are helping facilitate the support of Jordanas Viliusis, a promising young student and Havering resident, by the architecture firm Collado Collins, as he pursues his dream of becoming an architect.
Jordanas will receive financial support through his first three years of university education with a generous bursary provided by leading architecture firm Collado Collins.
This bursary is part of Collado Collins’ social value commitment to the partnership between Wates and Havering Council that is regenerating twelve estates across the borough and providing 3,500 new homes.
Collado Collins will also be providing Jordanas with paid work experience in their head office, as well as the opportunity to carry out his paid placement year with them.
Our social value team and Collado Collins visited local Havering schools and academies to discuss the role of an architect and encourage students to apply for the grant and attend an interview to share their ideas.
Since childhood, Jordanas has fostered a love for building things. He once constructed a computer from scratch with his friends, learning how to test the components and making tweaks when he encountered difficulties. From there, landscape architecture began to catch his eye, and he hopes to be able to incorporate the natural beauty of the environment with his future designs.
The prospect of attending university to study architecture is a lifelong dream come true. I’ll be the first person in my family to pursue higher education.
Thank you and your whole team for this opportunity, when I heard the results me and my family were in disbelief. This is an incredible first step in my architecture journey and I cannot thank you enough.”
Jordanas Viliusis
Jordanas will be studying at the University of Greenwich.
When I reached University, I had the benefit of a full grant, without which I might not have even started. I wanted to help someone who themselves might not otherwise start but who has a passion and desire to be an architect.
We have lucked out with Jordanas who stood out, and who will now be supported through his studies. The process has been uplifting and humbling, and I hope that in the future Jordanas will pay it forward when he establishes himself as an architect”.
Roy Collado
At Wates, we are very proud of the work we do to bring wider benefit to the communities we serve. Jordanas has huge potential, and we hope that this bursary will launch him into a brilliant architecture career.
All of us at Wates are already very proud of Jordanas, and are eager to support him in this exciting new chapter of his life. We look forward to seeing what he goes on to achieve
Michelle McSorley
Wates Residential Social Value Director
This is a prime example of how the 12 Estates joint venture partnership and our contractors are working to provide not just new homes for local people, but also wider benefits and fantastic opportunities.
I’d like to thank Collado Collins for their commitment to this vision, and also to wish Jordanas the very best in his studies.”
Councillor Williamson
Cabinet lead for Regeneration and Development at Havering Council
This programme forms part of our ongoing commitment to social value and bringing wider benefit to the communities it serves. Earlier this year, we achieved our social value targets for engagement with young people and for how much it spends with social enterprises ahead of schedule, and has now set even more ambitious targets.
Since 2020, we have reached more than 80,000 young people through workshops and assemblies at primary and secondary schools since 2020 – more than three times our original target of reaching 25,000 young people by 2025 – and have now extended this target to reach 100,000 young people by the end of 2025. As a Group we have also spent £31m with social enterprises since 2020, exceeding its original target of £25m by 2025, and has now extended its target to £36m by the end of 2025.
