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Posted by James Gubb on March 29, 2011 at 12:13pm

Are you a landscape gardener looking for a new and exciting challenge?  Founded this year, Streetscape provides high quality landscape gardening services and offers apprenticeships to young people (18-25 years) who are long-term unemployed, equipping them with the skills to secure and remain in employment.

We are looking for a landscape gardener to lead our first team of apprentices, starting June 2011, initially for a year.  

Candidates will have significant experience in landscape gardening, but also a passion for working with young people. Excitingly, you will also be integrally involved in helping to develop Streetscape and test new ideas... For more info see: www.streetscape.org.uk.   

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  • Donny Bryan March 29, 2011 at 6:46pm

    Hi James,

     

    We fully support this type of initiative. We are a social enterprise landscape gardening company ourselves. We're proud to have trained 2 young long term unemployed young men for the last 6 months (one of whom has a reading age of 9). Both have done fantastically well. Their work ethic, attitude, enthusiasm and willingess to learn is exemplary. We are delighted to have been able to offer one an apprenticeship and continue to seek a way to offer the same to the second.

     

    Good fortune to all in Streetscape!

  • Dave Sewell March 29, 2011 at 9:24pm

    James,

    Great initiative. Really great initiative. But I'm going to be ever so slightly disingenious here - you say you are providing 'high quality landscape gardening services'....I'm kind of wondering how that works when you're advertising for your first team leader? It's taken me about 20 years to make the same claim...

    Dave

  • James Gubb March 30, 2011 at 10:01am
    Dave, predominantly by recruiting someone like you... interested?

    Dave Sewell said:

    James,

    Great initiative. Really great initiative. But I'm going to be ever so slightly disingenious here - you say you are providing 'high quality landscape gardening services'....I'm kind of wondering how that works when you're advertising for your first team leader? It's taken me about 20 years to make the same claim...

    Dave

  • James Gubb March 30, 2011 at 10:03am
    Exactly!  Booked for first 3-4 months... initially a 12 month contract.  J

    Brigitt Stevenson said:

    Great challenge for anyone willing to teach all the Aspects in the Horticultural Industry...

     

    Are you booked with Jobs for a full year??? And would this be a Contract position?

     

    Brigitt Stevenson

    www.facebook.com/brigittsdesign

  • James Gubb March 30, 2011 at 10:03am
    Thanks so much, Donny.  Be really interested in having a chat.  I've sent you an email.  Cheers, J

    Donny Bryan said:

    Hi James,

     

    We fully support this type of initiative. We are a social enterprise landscape gardening company ourselves. We're proud to have trained 2 young long term unemployed young men for the last 6 months (one of whom has a reading age of 9). Both have done fantastically well. Their work ethic, attitude, enthusiasm and willingess to learn is exemplary. We are delighted to have been able to offer one an apprenticeship and continue to seek a way to offer the same to the second.

     

    Good fortune to all in Streetscape!

  • chris nangle March 30, 2011 at 8:06pm

    great idea i wish you all the very best James.

     

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