Contract Teams
The Wildife Trust for Lancashire, Manchester & North Merseyside

Greater Manchester Office
125 Blackburn Road
Bolton
Greater Manchester
BL1 8HF

The Wildlife Trust's contract teams offer a skilled workforce capable of delivering practical countryside management, conservation and landscape projects. Backed by the wealth of ecological and technical knowledge within the Wildlife Trust and sharing its ethos, our clients can be confident that our teams will work sensitively on their sites. Ranging from large scale urban regeneration to habitat management works or the installation of a single bench or sign, the same considered approach and attention to detail is applied.

The first team was originally developed to deliver a major access project at the Trust's Mere Sands Wood Nature Reserve and has since gone from strength to strength, establishing a client base, mainly within the public sector.

Our experience of habitat management on some of the region's most significant and vulnerable sites has provided our teams with the skills to manage and enhance habitats sensitively and in accordance with best conservation practice. These principles are applied to both the rural and urban environments in which we work.

Urban projects often draw on our habitat creation skills and take place in urban parks, areas of greenspace, derelict and demolished sites. The teams create the more traditional habitats, such as wildflower meadows, and employ new and innovative techniques, such as Pictorial Meadows, created from specially developed seed mixes.

Working with the Wildlife Trust's School Grounds project staff we can offer a complete service from classroom based sessions working on design ideas with children to completion of school grounds improvements and nature areas.

Many of our clients require access improvements to their sites. Our contract teams have considerable experience of constructing paths, steps, boardwalks and access points. Many of our projects provide access for disabled people and meet Countryside For All standards. For most of the paths, we use high quality surfacing materials composed entirely of reclaimed and recycled materials which give a consistent and hard wearing surface, as well as helping to reduce the impact of quarrying and landfill on the environment.

We often take on contracts in locations where access for large machinery is difficult and would cause damage to the site. Under these circumstances our teams use small machinery, which will work within the width of the path and with the terrain of the site.

On some of our larger projects the Contract Teams work alongside our New Deal training teams to provide a flexible and cost effective delivery mechanism.

For more information on the Wildlife Trust's contracting services please contact:

Steve Cowell
Training and Contracting Manager
tel: 01204 663754
email: scowell@lancswt.org