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Grounds Maintenance, Landscape Creation, Arboriculture, Sports Surfacing, Parks management, IOS Managing Safely Training, Ecology & Biodiversity, Grass cutting, Horticulture, Street Cleaning, Soft Landscaping, Hard Landscaping
Our Services
idverde provides a wide range of green services, including grounds maintenance, landscape creation, and advice services, to both private and public sectors across the UK.
Working with the RSPB
Our close working partnership with the RSPB helps us to deliver practical, nature-based projects that actively protect UK wildlife habitats.
Why is this important?
Across the UK, we have lost a huge percentage of our natural environment. This has happened over centuries as the population has grown and our industrial and agricultural practices have intensified, changing the way that we use our land for homes, offices, food, and livestock in a way that often negatively affects our native wildlife.
Our clients are actively looking for ways to balance the need for amenity spaces – such as parks, sports fields and entertainment areas – with the awareness of protecting and enhancing wildlife habitats, ensuring a symbiotic ecology so that people and planet are protected and provided for.
A positive partnership approach
We began working with the RSBP team in 2017, on a project for the London Borough of Bromley Parks Management. The project included managing local wildlife sites, nature reserves and Sites of Special Scientific Interest.
To help us manage these areas in the most positive way, we seconded an RSPB colleague into our team on a permanent basis. We have also worked with wider RSPB team specialists to ensure their knowledge and expertise informs our actions and decisions and leads to a deeper understanding of critical nature issues and how to make those issues the focus of the work we do.
We now have six permanent advisers across a number of our projects in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Our partnership has gone from strength to strength, allowing us to demonstrate our emphasis on species and habitat protection across all our projects.
“In Bromley, a highlight is the ‘Brilliant Butterflies’ project. Working with Butterfly Conservation, we created new homes for butterflies and insects by restoring and creating chalk grassland in the area. idverde is also working with the NI Housing Executive, working for people and nature on an 85,000 house estate, and in the Midlands, we’ve recruited 17 new volunteers to work on conservation projects in the region.” Sam Tarrant, Head of Business Conservation Advice, RSPB.
A partnership for the future
Working with the RSPB gives us access to the latest in innovative and ground-breaking practices and allows us to offer training both to our internal teams and to client and community teams. This in turn raises awareness of the importance of biodiversity across the board, resulting in more engagement from all stakeholders and, ultimately, a better and more diverse environment for people and species alike.
Our measure of success is where our projects have changed the mindset of local communities, brought businesses and public organisations into direct contact with their local environment and improved habitats for the species that are critical to our survival.
What have we achieved?
- Obtained £155,700 of external funding for our clients’ habitat management and habitat management projects
- Produced a 5-year Biodiversity Action Plan for London Borough of Bromley’s Parks & Open Spaces
- Increased naturalised grassland by 25% – mostly within urban parks
- Delivered a range of training to idverde staff, council staff and volunteers
- Changed management regimes to benefit biodiversity through implementing RSPB advice
- Enhanced surveying and species recording methods
- Implemented an evidenced-based approach to conservation