The gardening team recently completed a complete makeover of the Colchester Youth Enquiry Service garden in Trinity Street. The client was very happy with the work done: “Thanks , it’s a great job, really happy. ” Jane Blomeley, CEO of Colchester and Tendring Youth Enquiry Service. If you would like us to quote for similar work, general landscaping or grounds maintenance jobs, please get in touch via our Contact page
Go4 has been awarded a grant of £5,000 from the Colne Community Builders scheme. Colne Housing is one of our partners and has supported Go4 for quite a while now. The grant is to build up our Gardening Services work by purchasing new equipment to replace our existing equipment that is not of commercial grade and is coming to the end of its working life.
The grant means that we can scale-up our gardening services over the coming months and this will assist us in supporting more unemployed people by providing work experience, volunteering and training opportunities and help them into work.
We will give more details once we have allocated the grant as to what we have spent it on and what we have been able to achieve with the grant.
Thanks again to everyone at Colne for their support and their faith in us and our hardworking gardening team.
We recently received some good news – we have secured a second contract with Colne Housing to provide gardening services for several of its estates. This will help us become a more sustainable social enterprise, not dependent on grants. Of course, the whole point of a community interest company like Go4 Enterprises is to reinvest surplus income from trading back into tis core activities. This is the social benefit that flows from our business.
For us, long-term this will mean we will be help more young people who need support, work experience, training and ultimately, a way into employment. It also comes at a good time for us as we are in the final stages of negotiating a new partnership between ourselves, JobCentre Plus, Colne Housing and Ann Clarke Associates. If this comes to fruition we will soon be able to start a workplace academy that will provide vocational training.
Such a workplace academy will increase significantly the number of young people we can help, supporting them as they gain recognised qualifications and become employment ready. It will also help us expand into other areas and we are already in preliminary discussions with the Department of Work and Pensions on possible new projects.