FM help St Andrews Community Hospital go green

The FM team who help maintain St Andrews Community Hospital up in Scotland have recently given their green campaign an extra boost by tidying  up the grounds.

The St Andrews Community Hospital caters for long term patients from the Fife area and the idea of a garden improvements plan was to encourage the  patients to have an interest in the wildlife that inhabit the grounds. Our FM  business at St Andrews Community Hospital recently employed a new team member Andy Browning to join the existing team of Paul Cook and Kenny  Biskup so they could add the maintenance of the grounds and gardens, window cleaning and pest control to the existing list of reactive and PPM  works that the team carry out as part of their maintenance contract with the hospital.

To support their new garden maintenance initiative, a selection of FM team  members including Tony Smith, Marc Martin, Paul, Kenny and Contract Manager Lynn Peebles carried out some sterling gardening work in the  hospital grounds this Autumn. The projects for the day included putting up nesting boxes and bird feeding tables, not only to promote the local wild bird population but also to give an interest to patients who have access to the therapeutic gardens from a terrace and can oversee the nesting boxes and  feeding stations from their wards. Bird books and binoculars have been  provided for the patients and visitors in the day rooms.

The team also arranged for 12 varieties of wildflower seeds to be sown  around the gardens which will provide a sustainable food supply for the bird  population, as well as a welcome floral display around the perimeter of the  hospital. Compost bins and tumblers are already on site and plans are now in place to recycle the garden waste, providing compost which will be available  to the staff and patients for a small charitable donation.

The team already have the intention to put in a worm farm for next year at the hospital and are in the process of making insect and bat boxes to help the  soil as well as being a good source of food for the young birds.

Well done to the FM team for bringing a little more nature into the hospital  and to all the people that helped make St Andrews go green!