Fortem

Our commitment to the Armed Forces Covenant

We are registered to silver level of the Armed Forces Covenant. As a Forces-friendly employer, we benefit from the wide range of skills and experience that reservist and ex-service personnel can bring to our business.

We have appointed an Armed Forces Champion and have pledged to: 

• Promote the fact we are an armed forces-friendly organisation
• Support the employment of veterans and service leavers
• Offer flexibility in leave for service spouses and partners before, during and after deployment
• Support reservist employees, allowing up to 5 leave for training and deployment
• Grant Reservists up to 5 days paid leave per year to attend training and seek to accommodate requests for time off or temporary adjustments to normal working hours.

We actively promote apprenticeship and management trainee opportunities through Walking with the Wounded. We support Project Recce, sharing our Academy training facility enabling them to provide training to support veterans into work in construction; and supporting a four week Pathway into Construction

About us

Fortem specialises in making homes, buildings and communities better places to live. We began as a small business with just 38 employees. Since we were established in 2002, we have expanded to become a well-established company with over 1000 people. Delivering responsive repairs and voids is our core business. Fortem has provided this combined service in people's homes for over 40 social housing clients across the UK. We are annually completing 400,000 repairs in occupied homes whilst preparing 10,000 vacant properties for future occupancy. 

In the last year, we have delivered in excess of 15,000 planned installations including kitchens, bathrooms, rewires, central heating, windows, doors, roofing, walls, drainage and environmental improvements for local authorities and registered social housing clients.  We improve the fabric and appearance of properties to make them cheaper and easier to heat, reduce carbon emissions, help families out of fuel poverty and change lives. In addition we undertake repairs nationwide for a wide range of clients, blue light services and to public sector buildings.