September 2013 News

Landscaping and grounds improvement works continued at Cromwell Athletic JFC, and excellent feedback has been received from Connal O’Brien, Managing Director at Eric Wright Facilities Management; “We had our first home match on Saturday and the pitch looked great. Several other people also commented on how good it looked.”

Prestigious Property Management companies RMG and Trinity Estates both look to Groundlevel to add further sites to their portfolio of cleaning and window cleaning contracts. Casserly Homes also engage Groundlevel on a number of their sites in the Manchester area due to consistently high standards of service delivery.

Major building work is underway at Aalborg in Lancaster as Groundlevel work as principal contractors in a major refurbishment project.

July 2013 News

We are delighted to have received the following feedback from one of our clients in July:-

“From the moment the Groundlevel team of Chris Moore and Matt Wright arrived I was impressed with their attention to detail, ensuring that all carpets in our communal stair were protected. They were very careful in their approach to the works, ensuring that we were kept informed of progress and developments at all times. I was also extremely impressed with the quality of their work.

The team that completed the work in the bathroom, tiling and finishes etc of Rob Haynes and Pete Burton continued to complement our impressions of Groundlevel. Finally on completion of the works, we received very good service from Rob Paton, ensuring that we were satisfied with the works completed and that the very minor snag we had identified was rectified promptly and to our satisfaction and that we understood and agreed with the final invoicing.” Grahame Kirsopp, Site Agent, Morgan Sindall Plc.

Bathstore turns to Groundlevel for several installations in the Chester area. Substantial roof and associated insulation works have been awarded to Groundlevel and have commenced at Pownall Court. Trinity Estates also instructs Groundlevel on several redecoration projects including their Kings Wharf and Holly Court developments.

Bradshaw Lane Primary school awards Groundlevel their lottery funded landscape and playground improvements work, and St Philips Primary in Westbrook instructs Groundlevel on further project works.

We are delighted to welcome Matthew Hesketh to our Projects Department as an apprentice Joiner. Straight out of school, Matthew is embracing working life and building good working relationships with his peers. Matthew commences his studies at Warrington Collegiate Institute in September and we look forward to supporting him in his continued development.

Staff successes in July included our building surveyor, Ryan Hirst graduating at Liverpool Cathedral with an MSc in Commercial Building Surveying, and also Zuzanna Pajtasz in our accounts department successfully passed her AAT Level 3 Diploma in Accounting.

Groundlevel’s summer charity event was a huge success, a great night was had by all, and we were delighted to make a fantastic start to raising funds for Brainwave.

May 2013 News

BALI recommends Groundlevel to two significant landscaping projects demonstrating that the business is a key player within the landscaping industry. Langtree have also instructed Groundlevel in major landscaping projects at their Sky Park and Speke Hall locations.

Several redecoration contracts are awarded to Groundlevel by the prestigious Trinity Estates property management company. Trinity Estates also awards Groundlevel the roof remediation works at their Harper Mill development.

RMG instructs Groundlevel on new cleaning contracts.

Groundlevel announces its staff Summer Event, to take place on Friday 5th July. The evening will involve a number of fund raising activities to raise money for Groundlevels Charity of the Year, Brainwave.

April 2013 News

As a direct result of the unprecedented success within the education sector, we have undergone a review of our internal structure. Our education sector clients will benefit from a dedicated team of staff, headed up by Amanda Syverson; all staff employed to work on schools will undergo a CRB check, safeguarding training and regular internal briefings.

We are delighted to announce the recruitment of Angela Beeley as our new Schools Development Manager, returning to Groundlevel after a short return to teaching. Having spent a number of years teaching, Angela is extremely well placed to develop our relationship with school leaders, able to fully understand their requirements and expectations. Joining Groundlevel in May 2013, Angela will be reporting in to Amanda Syverson, HR and Business Development Manager, and the management team will be underpinned by our specialist teams in the grounds, cleaning, window cleaning, reactive, electric and projects departments.

The most recent schools to have joined us in April are Oakwood Primary, and Atherton St Georges for grounds maintenance. We are also delighted that Lowton St Mary’s have expanded their contract with Groundlevel to include total building maintenance as a direct result of the successful delivery of grounds maintenance services to this school. Further, our projects department is busy surveying and quoting for refurbishment works to a number of local schools.

Proud sponsors of Warrington RUFC, Groundlevel are delighted to extend congratulations to the Warrington Under 11’s Lancashire Cup Winners 2013 who are now off to Twickenham on 25th May.

Having progressed through the group stages, the young team defeated Fleetwood 29-0, Manchester 26-0, and Sefton 19-0, before meeting Preston and succeeding 21-0. In a closely fought final, Warrington defeated Waterloo 7-0.

Prestigious Property Management Company, Premier Estates looks to Groundlevel for project works to their City Peak development for the refurbishment of a number of apartments.

Following a successful tender process, Groundlevel secures in excess of £100k of decoration works with valuable client Trinity Estates.

We would like to extend our sincere condolences to the family of Andrew Gee who tragically lost his life in an accident whilst holidaying in Spain. Andrew did some fantastic work on the Groundlevel website and was a friend of the company for a number of years.

February 2013 News

Project work continues in Warwick where Groundlevel have been instructed on the refurbishment and reinstatement of a number of residential apartments.

Groundlevel is approached by a flagship college in the North West to quote for Grounds Maintenance work. Due to commence soon, this contract will be a substantial addition to our education sector portfolio. Work is also ongoing on the play area to the new Chapelford Village school in Warrington.

HLM engages Groundlevel to provide cleaning services to their sites at Windermere Gardens, Leigh and Reade Close in Flixton.

Groundlevel secures a major contract to develop 4 luxury apartments in Aalborg, Lancaster. This work will be a 16 week project set to commence in March / April and will engage a number of our projects teams applying a wide variety of skill sets.

Please read more about Groundlevel and the services that we can offer to education sector clients in our Company Brochure. Proud to already be working with a number of schools in the North West, we are seeking to expand in this area as well as continually developing our existing relationships.

January 2013 News

Landscaping improvement works continue at Warrington Golf Club as our Grounds and Projects teams come together to produce an extremely and consistently high quality of workmanship. Feedback from the club has been very pleasing and is reflected through the award of additional work.

RMG awards Groundlevel substantial projects and refurbishment work at a number of their apartment developments.

Further to a recent Health and Safety Audit carried out by Mr Des Kelly of RMG, we are pleased to have received excellent feedback, and proud to be providing our clients and staff with first class health and safety systems. RMG report:- “Groundlevel have first class H&S management systems, they have provided excellent documentation, supported by quality evidence, which leaves no doubt about their commitment to the management of health and safety. Groundlevel have provided their 2012 / 13 training matrix, which covers all aspects of their business and further enforces their professional approach to the welfare of their employees. The assessor had a brief conversation with Mr Lewis Nunn, Managing Director, who indicated that his business ethos is based on quality and that he expected total commitment from his employees, in return he provides total commitment to them.”

Our Decoration team wins additional works from the prestigious Trinity Estates for a number of their developments.

Groundlevel is proud to become the new sponsors of Warrington Sports Club; a local business providing employment for local people, we also take a keen interest in our community and relish the opportunity to support this fantastic club that provides sporting opportunities for all.

We are pleased to welcome new staff to the business this month, and have conducted a large number of interviews with a view to further expanding our workforce to accommodate increasing workloads and contracts. This is a pleasing position to be starting 2013 in and we are fortunate to be working with our valued customers to continually develop relationships.

As part of our continual investment in our staff, we have enrolled a number of colleagues on various training courses, including Asbestos Awareness, Prince 2, Cleaning and Environmental and others. We are pleased to offer employees these opportunities to develop themselves and their skills for the benefit of their own development and morale, and for the benefit of our customers and the services that we provide.

Extremely proud of our relationships with the local education sector, we are looking forward to exhibiting at the Warrington Association of Primary Head-teachers’ Annual Conference 2013 in Bowness-on-Windermere. Three members of our senior management team will be in attendance for two days to liaise with our existing clients and also to engage with potential new clients.

Sycamore Lane Primary School looks to Groundlevel to relocate their play equipment to the new Chapelford School, scheduled to open in February 2013. We are excited to be a part of this project and proud to be involved in making the new school play area a fun, safe and aesthetically pleasing place for young people to enjoy.

September News

HLM turns to Groundlevel for grounds maintenance services to their Bloor Homes development, Peacock Gardens, in Gorton, Manchester

We are also delighted to announce an addition to our education sector portfolio following the award of a grounds maintenance contract with Oxford Grove School in Bolton

Trinity Estates awards Groundlevel strip out and refurbishment works at their Heatley Mere development in Cheshire. This additional work is awarded following the smooth and successful mobilisation of phase 1 of our new business with this prestigious management company, we look forward to replicating this success across further phased implementations of new business.

In its 15th year of operation, Groundlevel is proud to have grown its workforce by 21% in 2012, with scope for substantial further growth throughout the remainder of this year, into 2013 and beyond; creating jobs for people in the North West region and even further afield.

Groundlevel is proud to announce that we will be sponsoring the Teacher of the Year Award at this year’s Wire FM Local Heroes Award Ceremony, being hosted at the Halliwell Jones Stadium on 4th October. We value our education sector clients with extremely high regard, and seek to develop our business in this area based upon reputation for excellence; the opportunity therefore to sponsor this category was not one that we wanted to miss. We look forward to meeting the category winner on the evening.

August News

The Groundlevel management team values the feedback and opinions of their colleagues and continually seeks to offer a positive working experience. The company’s first Employee Engagement Survey has recently been undertaken in order to gauge employee satisfaction, and to encourage ideas and suggestions from all staff. As a fast-growing company, it is important to Groundlevel to continually re-evaluate itself, both as a service provider and an employer. The management team will be reviewing the results of the survey and communicating with staff to notify them of any resulting changes. Thanks to all of our employees who took the time to complete the survey.

Customer feedback is equally important to us, and whether good or bad, the management team always communicates feedback to the relevant individuals. We have recently received another valuable compliment from one of our customers based in Leeds, as follows:-

“I live in a ground floor flat and my private garden area gets done for me by your gardeners at the same time as the communal grounds. This has been done today and I am e-mailing because I would really like some praise to be passed on to the people who have been doing this job lately. They really do a great job and are always paying attention to detail. This is very much appreciated and as I work shifts I have occasionally been in the flat when this work has been done. The gents that do this always work together as quietly and efficiently as they can. I would also like to add that I also find this to be the case for those who clean the windows. I am sometimes sleeping when they arrive due to the nature of my shift work but have never been disturbed by them and I'm sure you will appreciate this is very important to me so I would appreciate if some recognition could be passed on to them. Kind Regards, V Scott”

We have of course passed these comments onto the relevant employees, and would like to take this opportunity to congratulate Andrew Addison and his team of grounds maintenance operatives for this excellent feedback.

Our website has now been updated to include a page dedicated to our mobile teams, introducing you to the specialist staff and their wide ranging capabilities in relation to the services that Groundlevel can offer to its clients.

Groundlevel has also undergone a high level restructure in August, and continues to review departmental structures and staffing levels. It is crucial at this time of rapid growth that we have a robust structure in place to accommodate workloads and manage the business, whilst maintaining the highest levels of service to our new and existing customer base. Our new Senior Management Team consists of experts in the fields of Grounds Maintenance, Soft Services, Finance, Facilities Management, Operational Management and HR / HSE; please see our staff pages for more information about us

Further to recent press releases reporting new contract awards and also the investment made by Seneca, The Business Desk have published an article in August documenting the ongoing relationship with Barclays Business, whose support has given Groundlevel the opportunity to expand its workforce by 25% and continue to grow the business in 2012-13 and beyond. “Groundlevel to add jobs after funding fillip”

July News

New business has been awarded by Trinity Estates, where Groundlevel will be undertaking grounds maintenance services to The Hollies in Northwich and Balderstones in Rochdale. There is also some project and reinstatement work underway at Trinity developments; Holly Court and The Bridge

We are pleased to announce that Kath Nunn, Cleaning Manager is now on the road to recovery after a major health scare and so we look forward to welcoming her back.

RMG adds 7 new sites to the Groundlevel contract portfolio, securing grounds maintenance services to the following developments:

Waters Edge in Mossley
Southport Road in Chorley
Waterford Court in Farnworth
Central Road in Didsbury
Martin House in Manchester
Greenhalgh Court in Garstang
Corbar House in Buxton

RMG also awards substantial internal redecoration project works to Groundlevel for some of their prestigious developments, in addition to looking to us for reactive works on a daily basis

Substantial project work is underway at Lymm High School as Groundlevel carries out extensive improvement works over the summer break to include redecoration works, toilet refurbishments and re-marking of the car park and sports courts. Work is also underway at other local schools, maximising the opportunity to make improvements during the holiday period to avoid disruption.

Jungheinrich looks to Groundlevel for paving works to their Warrington offices; the work has been completed within July by our projects team, and we have also undertaken some tree works at the site

June News

Trinity Estates and Redrow houses are delighted with service levels, and workmanship delivered by Groundlevel at the picturesque Dibbins Brook development in Bromborough. Following a one-off job undertaken by one of our grounds teams, we have now been awarded an annual contract to provide grounds maintenance services to the vast landscape on the development.

Our thanks to Mark Meakin on our grounds team, who has been commended by the client for his proven commitment to service excellence whilst working on this development

Contractors Health and Safety Assessment Scheme

Committed to Health and Safety, Groundlevel is pleased to have been awarded CHAS accreditation for the fourth consecutive year. To read more about what this means, please see the CHAS website

Warrington Guardian Press Release

Our prestigious new contract award was reported on our own website, and is celebrated in our fifteenth year of operation. It was also reported by the Warrington Guardian on 28th June, and we are extremely proud to have been awarded this new business by our valued property management client. Mobilisation of the new contract is expected to commence over the summer and will create exciting opportunities for new and existing staff.

6 new vans arrive at Groundlevel to accommodate the growth of the business in light of new and imminent contract awards

Premier Estates extend their contract with Groundlevel across three new sites in St Helens and Golbourne. Groundlevel is pleased to have been awarded an annual contract to provide grounds maintenance services to Greenway Court and Sherbourne Park in St Helens, and also Grimshaw Court in Golbourne.

Apprenticeships

At Groundlevel, we invest in people and have supported numerous employees in their professional development through NVQ’s and such like. In June 2012, we have employed two young apprentices and are pleased to welcome them to our organisation, and proud to have the opportunity to support them in their studies within their chosen trades.

Dan Abram joins us as a Painting and Decorating Apprentice; he is scheduled to undergo initial course assessments shortly with Warrington Colllegiate Institute and will begin his course in September 2012

Lewis Paton will also be studying at Warrington Collegiate Institute; he joins us as an Electrical Apprentice and looks forward to starting his electrical engineering course in September 2012

Amanda Syverson welcomes Dan and Lewis on behalf of the company, and wishes them every success in their studies. We look forward to seeing their progress

London Contract Press Release - "Firms London deal"

The recent award of a £1.2 million contract, as reported in the press, is a true reflection of the reputation that Groundlevel has developed. We reported this great news on our website as part of our 15 year anniversary article, after first announcing it to our staff on 14th June when we hosted them at our head office in Warrington.

The Warrington Guardian also reported this news, both in print and their online edition. Visit the Warrington Guardian’s website to read their article about Groundlevel’s new £1.2 million contract

The ongoing contribution of our staff is recognised by Lewis Nunn, Managing Director, who has acknowledged that the continual growth of the business is underpinned by our colleagues’ dedication to their professions. Groundlevel employs a wide spectrum of specialist staff including but not limited to; cleaners, window cleaners, grounds operatives, electricians, decorators, joiners, labourers ... all supported by a team of customer service, finance, contracts, education, surveying and facilities management specialists. This in-house capability enables us to offer total facilities management solutions for all of your out-sourcing requirements.

April News

Great Sankey High School, Warrington, award Groundlevel the Grounds Maintenance contract for the ensuing year.

Trinity Estates instructs Groundlevel Limited regarding essential remedial works at the prestigious Kings Wharf development, Moorside, Warrington.

Croft Primary School, near Warrington, turns to Groundlevel for various grounds improvement works.

Premier Estates instructs Groundlevel on large project works at their key city centre development, Quebec Building in Salford, Greater Manchester.

October News

Trinity Estates instructs Groundlevel on the highly regarded Charles Church “Heald Point” development near Styal, Manchester. Works to include Grounds Maintenance, Window Cleaning and Communal Cleaning.

R.M.G. chooses Groundlevel to undertake substantial decorating and improvement works on the Delphwood Hollow development in St Helens.

August News

Schools: This month two schools have signed up for our Total Building Management package. Groundlevel is now responsible for all aspects of the building maintenance at Richmond Primary School, Oldham, and Penketh South Primary School, Warrington.

Trinity Estates have procured Groundlevel's services for a major renovation project at the Citadel developement in Manchester. This involved refurbishment of bathrooms, lounges and hallways.

January News

Our projects department has commenced reinstatement works to three water damaged apartments in Trinity Estates’ development: Sportcity, Stillwater Drive. The insurance works have been authorized by GAB Robins Group.

Culcheth Primary School undergoes essential playground refurbishment and construction of a new conservatory.

Appleton Thorn Primary School instructs Groundlevel to install a new purpose built play area on their site.