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.
News
09 Jan 2012
"FREDDIES FRIENDS" CREATOR WINS EAST ...
Greatfield mum Rachel Appleyard has been named the winner of East Hull’s Christmas Spirit Award for 2011. The prize, worth £200, is given by local charity EMS Yorkshire to someone who embodies c... Read More