EMSEMS

Services / Environmental Services

Services / Environmental Services

What We Do

Facilitate events and link together organisations with community volunteers to help develop or maintain public and private green spaces.

Including: litter picks, gardening projects, general   environmental clean ups, painting and decorating play parks, planting projects etc.

EMS Ltd’s Environmental Projects

  • Project managed over 1000 houses in an environmental improvement scheme (dwarf walls, rear fencing, driveway, paths and metal railings).
  • Designed and developed with full community consultation three children’s play parks.
  • Worked with the children of Eascourt Primary School to design and plant a green space on Newbridge Road.
  • Run Park Area in Bloom since 2006, with 2011heralding 33 entries the best by far city-wide.
  • Carried out numerous litter picks with residents and young people since 2002.
  • Worked with 5 young people to clear over 16 tonnes of rubbish as part of Humberside Polices Lifestyle Challenge in 2005.  The group “Making it Happen” won a trip to Florida.
  • Developing a community garden working with local residents, Archbishop Sentamu Academy and East Hull Centre for Horticulture.
  • Regular “area patch walks” with service providers, residents and Ward Councillors to discus neighbourhood issues.
  • Facilitate a number of one off clearance in resident gardens to give them a clean start to work with.
  • Run Doorstep Challenge a month long project where residents work on their front gardens.  Then they are judged on the work carried when the month is up.
  • Working with volunteers to operate “31 Days Cleaner” aimed at clearing green spaces and reducing rubbish/litter over one calendar month.
Operated a Garden Tidy Scheme for over 250 residents who were unable to tend their gardens due mobility issues or age.