The Green Team are pleased to announce that following an appeal by one of our schools, we have donated a state of the art Karaoke System to them. Hopefully the pupils (and staff) at Alton School will use the chance to demonstrate their singing skills.

There are many educational and learning benefits using song and music (as well as lots of fun), including building self confidence in children. You never know, you might see them one-day on X-Factor.

The Green Team (GMC) Ltd and Arboriculture Division would like to wish all our clients and staff a very Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year.

The Green Team Arboriculture Division are pleased to welcome a new member of staff to the tree surgery division.

The Green Team Arboriculture Divison are very pleased to announce the winning of a large contract to carry out Arboriculture Services at Lingfield Park Race Course.

The Green Team would like to welcome Chessington and Hook Football Club on board. We will provide pitch maintenance, grass cutting and pitch marking at the club's ground in Chessington, Surrey.

The Green Team are pleased to announce the purchase of a new Kubota ride on collection mower. This will greatly assist many grass cutting tasks by providing a quality cut and collect in a fraction of the time.

We have purchased a new road sweeper which will help us keep our sites nice and tidy.

We are happy to hire it out with a driver for general cleaning and sweeping services. If you would like further information on this service, please [contact us]

The Green Team are very pleased to announce that we have been awarded the contract for general grounds and garden maintenance at Saint Cecelia’s School, Wandsworth.

The Green Team have been awarded and accredited with the highly acclaimed ISO 9001 Quality Management Systems Certification, this is no mean feat, requiring many months of hard work, intense scrutiny and revamping of business processes and procedures.

Special mention must go to Ian Griffiths, our business management and horticultural specialist, without his tireless efforts, it would not have been possible.

ISO 9001 is by far the world’s most established quality framework, currently being used by over ¾ million organisations in 161 countries, and sets the standard not only for quality management systems, but management systems in general.

It helps all kinds of organisations to succeed through improved customer satisfaction, staff motivation and continual improvement.

For additional information visit:     [ISO 9001 Quality Standard - British Standards Institute WebSite]

The Green Team are very pleased to announce that we have taken delivery of our new Isuzu tree surgery truck. This 6.2 tonne truck has been specifically built to our own bespoke design and will be utilised by our growing arboriculture (tree surgery) division.

Immediate benefits include, environmentally friendly logistics by requiring fewer trips to our recycling depot during the day.

In view of our increasing business and workload, we welcomed two new employees to The Green Team (GMC) Ltd.

The Green Team are very pleased to announce that we have been awarded the contract to re-plant a number of large beds at Battersea Fields, Battersea.

The Green Team are very pleased to welcome St Mary’s University College, Twickenham as a new client. We will provide grass cutting services to their sports fields and other areas within the college grounds.

The Green Team are very pleased to be awarded the contract to re-instate the grounds at Harrowlands Hospital in Dorking. Harrowlands Hospital has been purchased by one of our current clients and they decided that The Green Team were the right choice for the job.

The grounds, untouched in over 18 months will require a major amount of work to restore them to the required high standard.

We are very pleased to welcome the following schools as new clients.

• Honeywell School – Wandsworth
• Trinity St Mary – Wandsworth
• Stanford Primary School – Norbury

The contracts are to carry out general grounds and gardens maintenance, including, grass cutting, plant and shrub maintenance and weed control and leaf clearance.

We are very pleased to welcome Ross Court as a client. The one year contract is to carry out grounds and gardens maintenance. This includes grass cutting, plant and shrub maintenance and weed control.

The Green Team are very pleased to announce that we have been awarded a contract to treat and eradicate a large amount of Japanese Knotweed in the Kingston area.

The Green Team are pleased to announce that we have placed an order for five new specially built Isuzu Trucks to replace our Ford Transit Vans. The bodies have been designed by us to ensure we can get the best use out of the trucks.

The Green Team would like to announce that all our staff have had refresher training in Health and Safety at Work.

When working on sites with young persons or patients having severe mental and/or physical disabilities, you can be assured that our staff are familiar with working under strict conditions in a highly professional and diligent manner.

The Green Team move towards an environmentally friendly vehicle fleet. We are very pleased to announce that we have purchased a Dihatsu Hi-Jet van which runs on Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG).

Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) is a mixture of propane and butane. When used as a vehicle fuel it is often referred to as autogas. The simple chemical make up of the gases ensures that they are clean burning.

For more information visit:     [Liquefied Petroleum Gas - Wikipedia WebSite]

The Green Team are pleased to announce that we have added and replaced a large portion of our grass cutting equipment.

We have replaced all our strimmers to ensure reliability for this coming year, purchased two new back pack blowers and two long reach hedge cutters.

We have also purchased two new Hayter cylinder mowers for wide area cutting (i.e. sports fields). These are the Hayter five cylinder decks and three cylinder decks.

The Green Team are pleased to announce that they have won the contract to supply and install a number of sports pitches and play / game markings on the hard surface playgrounds at All Saints School in Wimbledon.

We use the latest state-of-the-art thermoplastic line marking technology, this method is more durable and lasts much longer than normal paint and is self-cleaning under UV light. This method of marking is a much more cost effective solution for our clients.