I've just been looking through the LJN membership numbers.
LJN have 4,581 members with 61 joining in November 2015 (41 new sign-ups in October).
That's two new sign-ups every single day, in November.
I've recently returned from a trip to the UK. I did 750 miles in a round trip from Stansted up to Durham, across the Wrexham via Manchester then down to Warwick.
As always whilst I'm driving I look out for landscapers and gardeners. I saw many sign written vans and trucks. Some big rigs with trailers and machinery which were obviously largish firms and some small vans that I assumes provided a more intimate one-to-one service.
There's the potential for LJN to double or triple, or maybe even quadruple in terms of membership but there's still no real way of knowing how big the landscape industry is.
In the US a recent report claims that there are over 466,768 businesses, with a combined turnover of $76b, employing 958,711 people.
In the UK, LANTRA claim that the "environmental and land-based sector comprises 17 industries distributed across all four countries in the UK. There are approximately 230,000 businesses (comprising 9% of all businesses across the UK) within Lantra’s footprint, of which 96% employ fewer than 10 people. Around 1,126,000 people (4% of the UK’s workforce) are employed in the sector with as many as 500,000 volunteers also working on a regular basis. Approximately 42% of the workforce are self-employed."
The above numbers are somewhat distorted because theland-based sector include occupations such as animal care, fisheries and environmental, for example.
Alarmingly, 8% of those working in the land-based sector are over 65 years of age.
In a separate report, LANTRA says that the "environmental and land-based sector comprises 17 industries distributed across all four countries in the UK. There are approximately 230,000 businesses (comprising 9% of all businesses across the UK) within Lantra’s footprint, of which 96% employ fewer than 10 people. Around 1,126,000 people (4% of the UK’s workforce) are employed in the sector."
There's still so much to do and I suggest there's still so much room for LJN growth and additional support for our industry as a whole.
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"The environmental and land-based sector comprises 17 industries distributed across all four countries in the UK. There are approximately 230,000 businesses (comprising 9% of all businesses across the UK) within Lantra’s footprint, of which 96% employ fewer than 10 people. Around 1,126,000 people (4% of the UK’s workforce) are employed in the sector with as many as 500,000 volunteers also working on a regular basis. Approximately 42% of the workforce are self-employed."
The self-employed percentage is staggering.