Grounds Maintenance General Advice for Non Contracted Schools - Full Day

Our service offers advice on school grounds maintenance on a pay-as-you-use basis. It is designed for schools and academies that do not want to commit to the full grounds maintenance contract but would like access to expert advice and support when they need it.

Our service covers all aspects of managing and improving your grounds. It includes advice on prioritising maintenance work and developing new curriculum projects. We can also give you advice on how to meet your legal requirements.

Key Benefits

• Expert advice on maintaining your grounds, whenever you need it.
• Guidance on developing and looking after new outdoor areas, including playing fields, play areas, paths, car parks and educational sites
• Help with meeting your legal requirements.

Service Details

We can advise you on:

• hard and soft landscaping or new developments
• using playing fields, including letting them to non-school organisations
• looking after and improving your playing fields
• new grass playing fields
• new synthetic playing surfaces for specialist sports such as cricket, general sports activities, multi-use games areas and pitch areas
• improving your site layout
• creating sites with educational value, including ponds, wild flower meadows, nature trails, woodlands, assault courses, play equipment and quiet seated areas
• looking after your boundaries and keeping your site secure
• creating and looking after hard play areas and open spaces, new paths and car parking areas
• tree and shrub planting
• improving lawns and other grassed areas.

Extra work and services

We can also arrange for extra work and services to be carried out at your school or academy. There is an additional cost for this, but we’ll give you a written quotation before the work is carried out and equipment ordered. If you have a limited budget our area grounds advisory officers can advise you on what options are available.

Examples of extra work and services include:

• woodchips for playgrounds
• playground markings
• wood mulch for shrub borders
• topsoil
• turf
• purchasing and planting trees and shrubs
• playground surfacing
• sports equipment – for example rugby and football posts.