The Friends of Ground Breaking Projects offer services to corporate clients and other organisations which include landscaping maintenance training programmes to create employment for young people.
As a group we run community river restoration programmes and organise specific days where groups of volunteers can get involved and help clean our waterways.
Our goals are to create wildlife habitats, remove non-native species and to transform our neglected waterways for everyone to enjoy.
We are also involved in setting up a scheme to survey wildlife and monitor the river banks and water quality all year round. We are working to bring the River Lea back to life.
We are also a training provider offering courses in landscaping and fishing.
A clean environment helps people to improve their skills and prospects and helps motivate people make their own decisions, which in turn helps create better local employment for local people.
Born and bred in the Lea Valley with over 20 years experience in landscaping, he is a regular exhibitor at the RHS Hampton Court Flower Show.
He has worked with conservation groups gaining extensive experience in fishing and conservation and has made a study of newts and amphibians.
Steve has done extensive research on the history of garden design and landscape architecture. He is also a keen student of battlefield history covering the last 200 years.
The key objectives:
Our thanks to Bulldog Tools for their support and for providing the tools for the sponsored Bulldog Clean Up Day.
Steve Mann has promoted Environmental policies since 1987. We strive to limit our carbon footprint wherever possible and recycle waste to reduce the number of journeys to landfill sites.
We also share vehicles to reduce co2 emission and, where possible, plants are broken down and recycled for organic matter.
As a group we endeavour to use chain of custody timber and sustainable wood, we are also strong supporters of the chain of custody certification processes.