Andrew Dawson, Arborist Service Manager
Based in the heart of Stockport, Totally Local Company provide a huge range of services to the public and private sectors across Greater Manchester. All our teams take huge pride in the work they do – including our established Arbs team.
Between them, the Arbs team have well over 100 years of arb experience. We’re very proud to have obtained ArbAC status, and the ISO 9001 (UKAS) accredited scheme strongly aligns to our commitment as a Safety-first organisation.
Our Arbs team works across a variety of sites, including residential. We cover parks, country parks, play areas and recreation grounds, and everything from libraries to cemeteries and from churches to schools and academies.
We have a strong focus on environmental matters, recycling logs via a Manchester-based social enterprise. The items created with our wood include community allotment buildings, community centre garden raised bedding and seating areas, reclaimed timber kitchens, chopping boards and fire surrounds. We also contribute to the production of electricity through biomass wood chip recycling.
We have always been involved in planting projects, with in excess of 1600 trees planted over the past four years and a further 259 already scheduled for 2012/22 winter season.
Our business is diverse. As an example, as well as handling the trees at a number of schools across Stockport, we also provide those schools with school meals, cleaning, general grounds maintenance and more. In addition to our Arbs team, TLC has experts covering a wide range of areas. You’ll see us everywhere from school kitchens to parks and playgrounds. We fix roads and clean, light and provide signs for the streets. We empty bins and help to keep the area secure. We clean office spaces (and more), tidy grounds and dispose of waste too.
This article was taken from Issue 195 Winter 2021 of the ARB Magazine, which is available to view free to members by simply logging in to the website and viewing your profile area.