PUBLIC PLACES An area of wetland which still requires management


If we can get some good quality people on board through apprenticeship schemes who want to learn - whilst we still have those last few people that can do most jobs - they can learn from some of those guys


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something about that earlier. But trying to get the contractor interested in apprentice schemes for grounds maintenance when, as Brad said, the bigger money is on the contract’s waste management side is hard. They overlooked the grounds maintenance side because we have five percent of the overall contract. I think the way to describe it over the last fifteen years is we’ve coped, and that’s come from the guys on the ground because they are the ones that care about it.


Over the years, we’ve felt like the contractors have held us back; we know what we should be doing, and we know what we can do, but we just weren’t being allowed to do it.” Brad interjects: “If we can get some good quality people on board through apprenticeship schemes who want to learn - whilst we still have those last few people that can do most jobs - they can learn from some of those guys before they are gone.” John continues: “In coordination with


Ealing, GEL are setting up new


apprenticeship schemes, so we are trying to sign up people. We’ve got one young lad who worked at a golf course for two and a half years, had a year out and came to us with a bit of sports knowledge and an NVQ Level 2. So we're trying to get him a level 3, but trying to find a specific course to cover just sports is quite hard. We’ve got a local group called Capel Manor College, and they cover horticultural training, including sports,


“We can do all the various grass heights with just one machine.”


John Carpenter, Grounds Maintenance Supervisor, London Borough of Ealing


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