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Environmental Wardens Go All Out to Improve our City!

BEST leader Lynne Tandy, and local Environmental Wardens from the Warden Service area office north, best known as ‘The Green Team’, have seized an opportunity through their BEST workshop to develop links with local partners. They have started a joint initiative to work on environmental community concerns with Fire Officers from Green Watch at Ward End Fire Station.

At their BEST Workshop in June 2009, the Green Team felt they wanted to get involved with the local Fire Service’s project, SPARKS. This initiative involves visiting local primary schools in the Washwood Heath area and raising awareness by delivering four different workshops; Street Safety, Arson, Safety in the Home and Local Environmental Issues.

Over the last few months Lynne, Phil Brook from the Recycling Team, Officers, Ian Smith and Shawn Mcgrath from Green Watch, and Fiona Rhodes, Education Adviser for the Fire Service have been putting their heads together and have come up with an inspiring workshop which will encourage local children & their families to make their streets safer and cleaner.

These workshops will be delivered into local schools from November 2009, by the Green Team’s Environmental Wardens and the Fire Service.

Funding for this pilot scheme has been made available from the Fire Service Ward End, and as the forward-looking Green Team increase in proficiency and confidence, it is likely that extra funding will be made available for the SPARKS Project to go out to all primary schools city-wide!

Well done and thank you Green Team for working with our partners to improve the streets we live on! We think as a team you have shown, and continue to demonstrate, the four core values; Belief, Excellence, Success and Trust!