Grounds Maintenance, Landscape Creation, Arboriculture, Sports Surfacing, Parks management, IOS Managing Safely Training, Ecology & Biodiversity, Grass cutting, Horticulture, Street Cleaning, Soft Landscaping, Hard Landscaping
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.
The Royal Parks are a key contract for idverde as well as places to reconnect with nature for many of London’s visitors, workers and residents. Ensuring they are sustainable and environmentally thoughtful as well as well-maintained is top of the agenda for everyone.
To generate ideas and squeeze every drop of creativity from our Park teams, we took them out of the business for a day for a Sustainability Workshop and immersed them into a mix of learning, researching and sharing best practices and ideas.
Plenty of passion and enthusiasm was generated with a Climate Fresk workshop, alongside a day of sustainability themed games and quizzes, along with brainstorming of ideas and scenarios.
What emerged from the day was not just an action list of improvements which included everything from using recycled bin bags to water treatment solutions for the Park’s many lakes and ponds, but also a deeper insight into the possibilities for transformation for urban areas.
Sharing ideas from our colleagues at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park for example, brought creative ways to increase biodiversity in areas that might have to be highly pedestrianised or have multiple uses through the seasons.
Each Park team finished the day with a collection of immediate actions and a list of medium term ideas and solutions which will now be shared with the client.
Some of these solutions will also be of benefit to other contracts in idverde’s portfolio where clients are looking for ways to improve sustainability and biodiversity all manner of parks and public spaces. It just goes to show, there is always more you can do.
