Our Partners

Green Tracks has a philosophy whereby we work in partnership with all our customers to provide the best service possible, from beginning to end. We also believe in partnerships between organisations and are currently working with the following:

Strategic Partnerships

Aberdeenshire Housing Partnership

Aberdeenshire Housing Project is a socially responsible landlord serving 500 properties in the North East of Scotland, many within our catchment area. We have held indirect talks with them through their chairperson and are discuss opportunities to secure maintenance contracts which will reduce their overheads and increase our profit margin.

Langstane Housing Association

Langstane Housing Association (LHA) was founded in 1977 to provide affordable rented accommodation and now has over 2,000 units in management throughout the North East of Scotland.  Green Tracks successfully secured funding from the Scottish Executive’s Wider Role Fund with the aid of their New Initiative’s Manager who now sits on our steering group. We hope to secure maintenance contract from them in 2008-2009 based on competitive tendering.

Tenants First Housing Association

Tenants First is Britain's largest housing co-operative, with properties predominately in the greater Aberdeen area, Fraserburgh, Peterhead and Arbroath. The Co-operative is a non-profit making organisation that is owned and run by its tenant members for the benefit of its tenant members. Green Tracks presently receives regular maintenance and repair contracts from Tenants First and will continue to maintain, develop and expand this service.

Aberdeen City Council Care and Repair

Aberdeen Care and Repair (ACR) offer a free service to owner-occupiers and tenants of private landlords who live within Aberdeen City. Clients must be either; elderly, disabled or suffering from long term illness. ACR refer their clients to Green Tracks on a regular basis for garden maintenance and they are investigating the possibility of expanding this service.

Castlehill Housing Association Care and Repair

Castlehill Housing Association offers a free Care and Repair service to owner-occupiers and tenants of private landlords. The service is available to older people, the disabled or people suffering from long-term illness. Green Tracks already provides a subsidized garden maintenance service for Aberdeen City Care and Repair and are discussing providing this opportunity to tenants of Castlehill.

Aberdeen City Council

The Council is a very complex organisation and therefore has many strategies, plans, policies and visions at different levels of the organisation. Green Tracks can help the council deliver a “modern, effective, efficient and accessible services to the people of Aberdeen” and assist in the delivery of their social aims. They are looking to open discussions with personal in their Housing, and Arts and Recreation departments in 2008 – 2009 with a view to future tendering opportunities.

           Social Firms Scotland

Social Firms Scotland works closely with Green Tracks in creating a business that offers real opportunities to those most disadvantaged within the local community, by enhancing and improving the environment and generating income through real employment and market opportunities. This is achieved by promoting service user participation, events and networking, as well as, providing training and development potentials.

Training Partnerships

Aberdeen Foyer

Aberdeen Foyer is a successful local charitable organisation working to prevent and alleviate youth homelessness and unemployment. Our training programme has been developed in partnership with Aberdeen Foyer and will link in with their Build and Train, Training for Work and Progress to Work schemes throughout the course of the programme.

Momentum (Energiser Project)

Momentum’s Energiser programme aims to help people with mental health difficulties break out of their routine and give them the motivation and confidence to move forward with their lives. Green Tracks initially provided conservation days for Energiser and is currently in discussions with them to reintroduce this as part of their training programme.

Scottish Association for Mental Health (Earth Project)

The Earth Project provides a balanced and comprehensive training experience in horticulture and the environment, for adults with mental health problems. Green Tracks has partnered the Earth Project on a number of initiatives and are looking to utilise their experience in soft landscaping to add diversity to their own training programme.

Garden Craft Products

Garden Craft Products is a sheltered workplace for adults with learning disabilities. It produces a range of garden furniture including picnic tables, benches, planters and sheds. Garden Craft Products provides a product that could realistically utilise for Green Tracks customers. There is also an opportunity of Green Tracks offering an interim management and they are currently discussing this option with Aberdeen City Council.

Healthy Roots

Healthy Roots is a community-led initiative to transform 2 hectares of derelict land in the Middlefield area of the city into a new public park. Work has involved clearing of the derelict site and the creation of a path network, flower beds, picnic benches, vegetable plots, composting, wildlife gardens and several play areas. Green Tracks has been the main contractor for Healthy Roots and developed a positive relationship with its board and is looking to secure future contracts within the project.

Broadcairn Construction

Broadcairn Construction is a self-managing operating department within Broadcairn Community Fund which provides employment opportunities to long-term unemployed and those recovering from ill health. This is a relatively new relationship for Green Tracks and as there is no direct competition in catchment areas, both parties are looking to develop the partnership and discussing the potential in joint tender submissions.

Environmental Partnerships

S.C.A.R.F. (Save Cash and Reduce Fuel)

SCARF aims to work through partnership to promote sustainable use of energy, eradicate fuel poverty and create sustainable employment and training opportunities. Green Tracks is developing a successful relationship with SCARF based on marketing and mutual promotion of our services, both of which are directed towards conserving the environment

Business Environment Partnership North East (BEPNE)

The Business Environment Partnership was established in 1998 to provide free and subsidised assistance with environmental management to small to medium sized businesses throughout Scotland. They have provided invaluable support, assistance and advice to Green Tracks in their development and hold a database of business in which Green Tracks further promote their services.

Aberdeen Forward 

Aberdeen Forward aims to improve the local environment by supporting and developing sustainable development projects in partnership with the community. Green Tracks began partnering Aberdeen Forward in 2004 when they secured a contract to construct industrial compostors sited in allotments throughout the city. Since then they have been the main contractors and aided in the delivery of their community development projects.

Solstice Nurseries

Solstice Nurseries is a wholesale grower, nursery and garden/site maintenance service, which provides work experience and training in horticultural nursery and garden maintenance work for people who have experienced mental health problems. We are working with Solstice to develop composting units to reduce our landfill charges and are currently curing felled timber on their site.

Wood RecycAbility Ltd

Wood RecyclAbility Ltd (WRL) is a social enterprise that recycles waste wood and gives adults with learning difficulties the opportunity to develop skills in a real workplace environment. At present half of all income is from sales, and some 38 trainees with varying forms of care needs are assisted. Green Tracks utilises the resources provided by either purchasing or recycling wood from them and hopes to further develop this partnership in the future.

Aberdeen City Counryside Rangers

Aberdeen City Council Countryside Ranger Service is committed to working for a biodiverse, best value and socially inclusive future for all the City's countryside resources. Green Tracks first worked with the Rangers in 1998 as volunteers. Since then they have grown and successfully secured tenders for clearances on Sites of Special Scientific Interest in the previous two years. As their capacity grows Green Tracks will expand on this relationship to further develop its conservation services.