News

Treeline Services Ltd has recently completed an audit for Health and Safety and Business Practices and successfully met the criteria set out by HCS Careers to gain approval for Work Experience placements for young people. Managing Director James Jackman commented, “Having spoken to several parents on a local community project recently, it became clear that there were no placements being offered for young people wanting to get into Arboriculture and being one of the leading company’s in the area we felt it necessary to put this right.  Our Arboricultural Association Approved Contractor status meant that the audit ran smoothly as the standards that are imposed by the Association ensured the audit was passed with no problems. It is rewarding to be able to offer something back to the community”.

Over the past few days Treeline has been running a tree planting programme together with the Sydney Michael Poland Trust in Brockham. Orignally Treeline and the Trust put a proposal together for a grant from the Big Tree Planting Scheme which was refused as it was considered that the area by the river was not used enough by the pubic to justify any funding, although this area does have very high amenity value for the residents of Brockham. Thankfully, the Trust together with Treeline decided to proceed with the scheme without any funding from the Government and with the help of the pupils from Brockham school, the Brockham Scouts, the Young Farmers and several others we have managed to plant in excess of 250 trees including Field Maple, Hazel, Prunus, Hornbeam, Sweet Chestnut, Holly, Alder and Oak.  A big thank you to everybody who was involved in the project. This will go a long way to increasing the tree stock in this area for future generations to enjoy.

Well done to Matt on completing his trailer course and passing his test allowing him to tow heavy trailers, there was never much doubt as he has been towing on his farm for many years but congratulations anyway Matt.

Andy Robertson successfully passed another NPTC course today, all his NPTC units are now refreshed and valid for another 5 years, Andy was by far the most experienced member on the course and passed with no problems at all, well done.

James Jackman and Adam Golding attended a seminar today to discuss the new British Standard for treework (bs3998) which was published in December 2010. The industry has been waiting a long time for this revision and there are some major changes in the standards, especially for pruning operations. We will be introducing some changes into the companies working practices with to ensure that we are fully compliant with the new standard.

Kristan Llewellyn and Andy Robertson have recently undergone the training and passed the tests for towing trailers upto 3.5 tons, These qualifications are a great addition to their continued professional development.

Treeline are very pleased to launch their new website, feel free to look around but please bear with us as the site is not complete yet. The site will be updated regulally with our latest news and galleries so be sure to have a look from time to time.