RSS FeedLincolnshire Wildlife Trust Visit Gelder Group Environmental Park
On the 24th July two dozen Gainsborough Group members of Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust and friends arrived at the Gelder Group Head Quarters on Tillbridge Lane. They were met by Simon Blaydes the Groups Environmental Project Warden, who gave an introduction to the Award winning Environmental Project before leading the walk.
The group were very impressive with the information board showing a layout of the Project including the various habitats and features that had been specifically created. The Project was an early dream of company founder and Managing Director Steve Gelder and was officially opened by the Duke of Gloucester in 2010.
The Environmental Project has been in development for some 8 to 10 years and is now starting to mature, covering 16 acres, and planted up with 3800 native trees of fifteen species with extant trees and valuable Hawthorn hedges retained, it provides habitat for a wide variety of typical mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles and fish. Perhaps the most spectacular and visible is the family of Kestrels.
The Gelder Group headquarters is serviced by its own Bio-Treatment Plant which discharges clean water back into the River Till. A rainwater harvester services the Groups toilets and supplements water for washing the fleets vehicles also. The Group recycles over 90% (compared to the 72% industry standard) of its own site waste at its Recycling plant – Greentech located a few miles from HQ at Dunholme.
