09/12/2025
🏡💜 TEAL CIC - RSB Containers 💜🏡
We wanted to share the full journey of what has been happening behind the scenes with our classroom — the highs, the lows, the devastation, the fight… and finally, the incredible kindness that turned everything around.
This is a long post, but an important one.
Thank you to everyone who has supported us through this whirlwind. 💛
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⭐ PART 1 — WHY WE NEEDED A NEW CLASSROOM SPACE
Our current classroom wasn’t always a classroom — it was the previous owner’s allotment tool room.
We transformed it into a learning space, and it’s been wonderful…
but the building is now in desperate need of repairs:
🔧 The cladding is falling off
🌱 The outside is growing into the inside through cracks
💧 The windows are leaking
⚡ It also houses all the main electrics for the entire property
☀️ It manages all our solar energy and cabling
To safely repair it, we must vacate the building, we don’t know the extent of the repairs needed until we see what’s under the cladding…. Maybe a few squirrel nests 🐿️
The wellbeing of our students, staff and animals always comes first, so staying inside isn’t an option.
Thanks to fundraising and what we had set aside ourselves for this, our plan was to purchase a movable modular building on skids to us a safe educational space .
We researched companies for months… and finally found one.
Or so we thought.
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⭐ PART 2 — EVERYTHING WENT WRONG
We visited a company in Horsham called RSB Containers.
Everything looked perfect. We stood in the modular builds, met owners & staff.
We signed a contract.
We paid a 50% deposit.
We waited for a delivery date.
And then on delivery date week — silence.
No replies.
No updates.
Nothing.
After digging online, contacting staff, and speaking to the business park owners, we received devastating news:
💔 The company was folding
💔 Staff had been laid off
💔 The business was heading into liquidation
We immediately contacted trading standards, Companies House, fraud teams…
sent letters, emails, posted warnings everywhere…
But the reality hit hard:
We had lost a huge amount of money.
And we felt we were letting down our students, families, funders, local authorities —
everyone who believed in this project.
It was heartbreak.
Total despair.
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⭐ PART 3 — REFUSING TO GIVE UP
But we didn’t stop.
We couldn’t.
I spent hours calling anyone linked to the business.
Messaging every account.
Emailing every name.
Commenting warnings on every platform to stop others being scammed.
Then — a tiny spark of hope.
The business park staff said:
“We’re so sorry. Give us 24 hours — we might know someone who can help.”
And then a message arrived.
A former employee replied to our post —
our first “shining star.”
He explained the staff had been laid off…
but he was now working with a steel company alongside Iain and Andrew.
And he thought they might be able to help.
The next day — the phone rang.
It was Iain.
He listened, he cared, and he understood the importance of TEAL’s work.
And then he said:
“Give us 24–48 hours. We want to see what we can do.”
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⭐ PART 4 — THE MIRACLE
What happened next felt like a Christmas movie.
Iain and Andrew — Boxclever
who absolutely deserve the title Father Christmas —
came back with an offer… They would build our modular unit AT COST.
✨ No profit.
✨ No markup.
✨ Just materials and labour.
✨ Because they wanted to help TEAL.
They knew the money we’d lost.
They understood the importance of a safe learning environment.
They understood the power of horses.
They understood alternative education.
When they told us their offer, we could have cried. (And probably did.)
The unit is already being built, right here in Surrey, 25mins away from us…by the kindest team.
We met the owners, staff, their families —
and even their 20+ horses!
It was like a dream day out, meeting our new heroes.
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⭐ PART 5 — CHRISTMAS MIRACLE CONFIRMED
The BEST news of all…
🎉 Our modular mobile unit will be here BEFORE CHRISTMAS! 🎉
From devastation to celebration —
in just a couple of weeks.
Our students are SO excited.
Our team is excited.
Our animals are excited.
But more than anything —
we are grateful.
Grateful for kind, honest, genuine people who stepped in.
People who care about young people.
People who believe in TEAL’s mission.
People who understand the power of horses, healing and alternative education.
We will forever sing the praises of our heroes —
Iain, Andrew and their entire team at Boxclever builds.
We are proud to call them part of the TEAL family now.
This journey has shown us one thing clearly:
When community, compassion and determination come together —
miracles happen. 💛
More updates coming soon as we prepare to welcome our brand-new classroom! A little message from our students below 👇
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