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Self Employed Price work

Good morning, I'm looking for some advise/help.

I run a family fencing and landscaping business with my dad. He runs the landscaping side and myself the fencing.

Up until about 2 years ago all of our employees were PAYE. But after 1 fencing supervisor

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Educational Opportunities

Myerscough Open Morning

If anyone is interested in progressing their career, we have an Open Morning coming up at Myerscough. Our new online MSc in Landscape Management starts in September 2023. We also have courses in Animals and Horticulture as Ther

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Garden Maintenance business for sale - South Wilts

Its time to start thinking about hanging up the boots - and having a gap year(s) myself - I've paid for 2 kids to have one, but never had one myself! Such things weren't a rite of passage in 1976 when I left school :(

The Honest Services Co Ltd starte

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Horticulture, Arboriculture and Forestry Apprenticeship standards are up for review

Horticulture, Arboriculture and Forestry Apprenticeship standards are up for review - your participation & views would be welcomed ;

https://twitter.com/drsuemoss/status/1375102905359949825?s=21

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Where is the best place to advertise for gardening staff to join our team?

Hi.

I'm just wondering where people tend to advertise to find gardening staff with good plantsman / horticultural experience these days? There was a time I would have come here to Landscape Juice Network but the jobs section seems redundant now and br

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LJN Managed recruitment package for £169.00

Landscape Juice is offering a new managed package for employee recruitment.

The package involves:

• Personal account manager with over 14 years specialist recruitment experience
• Posting to LJN social media channels (for example, LJN has 13,400 Twitter

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Industry pay gap - How many women work within the landscape industry?

It is the law that UK companies employing over 250 people must pubish gender pay gap figures.

For example Marshalls Group - one of the landscape Industry's largest employers -  has just 17% of women making up its entire workforce; 14% are women in ma

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The Queen is looking for a gardener at Buckingham Palace

Joining this small team of qualified gardeners, you’ll help ensure the Royal Gardens and surrounding areas of Buckingham Palace and St. James’s Palace are maintained to an exceptional standard.

You’ll keep the lawns in top condition, from regular mow

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Mitox machines

Hello everybody I'm looking to diversify my garden metal work business to incorporate garden maintenance I currently use husqvarna for my saw and brush cutter use. However I have also got a mitox brush cutter that was gifted to me as a back up and to

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How do you define 'fully qualified' in our industry?

I read a statement by a landscape firm yesterday that all of their staff are 'fully qualified professionals'.

Bunkum, I thought, that's impossible. 

No individual can ever be qualified as there's no single examination or test in the landscape industr

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Do you love your job?

Hi all,

Firstly, thank you to all members who share knowledge on this site. It's great to see this happening in the industry and as a first time user, it's so helpful to read your conversations advice.

 

I am thinking of sacking it all in...

I currently

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Can anyone tell me where they buy their gloves from?

Last year I was browsing through the post and came across a recommendation from a supplier that sell gardening gloves etc at a good discount. I thought I saved the website and details but I can't find it. 

If anyone knows of a supplier please let me k

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Seeking 10 people to learn together with Piet Oudolf, Dr Noel Kingsbury and others

Hello everyone,

It's been several years since I've been on here.  And MyGardenSchool has now grown quite a lot.  We're trialling an initiative where we'd like to find 10 people who would be happy to learn together in one class  - and really feel like

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