Pinnacles managers to revamp local Essex school's garden

Tuesday 12th August

A local Clacton school is set to benefit from a newly landscaped wildlife area when cleaning and grounds maintenance managers from across Pinnacle’s contracts in Essex take part in the latest annual Pinnacle Management Challenge.

More than 10 Essex-based Pinnacle managers will transform an overgrown, disused piece of land outside the science lab at Colbayns School, Clacton, to provide a wildlife garden with a pond which will then be available to the local community as well as school students.

Pinnacle’s Management Challenge is an innovative leadership development programme aimed to hone the employee’s individual skills in designing, developing and implementing improvement schemes that benefit the communities in which they work. The managers are tested to complete the project within five days before 30 September.

Pinnacle’s Cleaning Area Manager, Graham Hines, who will be managing the project, said of the progress the team are making: “We’re still in the early stages of the project, but onsite work has begun today. The team are currently working really well together and we’re excited about getting the work underway.”

This will be the fourth community project to develop from Pinnacle’s innovative leadership development programme. Other successful schemes have included a landscaped community park in Hackney and a sensory garden and community landscaped area in Canning Town.

Pinnacle managers began work on the wildlife area today