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STREETSCAPE.ORG
Award winning social enterprise
Streetscape is an awardwinning
social enterprise providing
long-term unemployed 18-25 yearolds
with paid apprenticeships
in landscape gardening. We’ve
known Streetscape for five years,
supplying stone at a discount
for their projects, and are proud
to support them and the young
people they work with.
Over the course of a year, the
apprentices learn hard and soft
landscaping skills and work onsite
for residential, corporate and
commercial clients, all the while
working towards a Level 2 Diploma
in Work-Based Horticulture. They
also have the chance to complete
a short course or horticultural
licence of their choice, and to learn
to drive, all supported financially
by Streetscape. The goal is to
ensure that every young person
moves on to work—and retains it—
when their training is over.
With our two organisations
sharing the same people-focussed
values, we love Streetscape’s
guiding principles: that every
project should be completed to
an excellent standard; that being
in work creates a sense of selfworth
and purpose; and that
everyone has the potential to
fulfil their dreams, given the right
opportunity. They provide garden
design, build and maintenance
services mainly to the south-east
of London.
Streetscape is a social
enterprise. All surplus
money is ploughed
back into the apprenticeships.
Streetscape
Streetscape have proudly
been involved in the build of
two gardens at the Hampton
Court Flower Show (2013
& 2014). The fact that both
of these show gardens
were awarded Silver-Gilt
medals shows how proud
we as an industry should be
of what Streetscape and their
apprentices are achieving.
www.streetscape.org
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