Grounds Maintenance - Tenants Garden Service

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<p>Happy To Help Community Interest Company (HTH) is a social enterprise that has been established for the development and delivery of additional services to vulnerable tenants living in homes managed by Northampton Partnership Homes (NPH).</p> <p>HTH is wholly owned by NPH who manage c11,400 properties on behalf of Northampton Borough Council . HTH has its own governing Board, the majority of whom are tenants. It is a not-for-profit Company which means that any income is re-invested in providing services to vulnerable residents.</p> <p>Current HTH services include:</p> <p>&bull; A foodbank<br />&bull; Purchases of white goods and furniture for those in crisis<br />&bull; Provision of a community grants fund<br />&bull; A paint shop selling low cost paint to the community<br />&bull; Provision of volunteering opportunities for tenants</p> <p><br />NPH has a number of tenants who, for a variety of reasons, find themselves unable to continue to maintain their gardens as required by their tenancy agreements. Many of these gardens have become overgrown and unusable.</p> <p>Recognising the need, NPH (via its social enterprise HTH) wishes to provide a gardening service to those vulnerable tenants. This will be delivered in two forms:</p> <p><br />&bull; For those tenants unable to maintain their garden and afford to have work done, HTH will contract the work to a third party.</p> <p><br />&bull; Where tenants require the work but can afford to have this done themselves, the third party will be promoted to the tenant as a &lsquo;trusted trader&rsquo;. The third party would provide the work at the same schedule of rates secured by HTH through the tender exercise.</p> <p><br />With this approach we hope to secure competitively priced bids from local organisations that are keen to grow both their business and reputation for customer service.</p> Keywords: Garden Service, Grounds Maintenance