PRESS RELEASE: Tessella employees joined forces with Oxford Urban Wildlife Trust as part of Tessella community day.
Caption: Tessella employees ready to get stuck in.
Tessella employees volunteered to help with conservation efforts at two sites in Oxford; the Oxford Urban Wildlife Trust’s 6-acre Boundary Brook Nature Reserve and the Ss. Mary and John Churchyard Project.
Out in full force, and with tools supplied by Oxford Urban Wildlife and the Churchyard Project, 48 Tessella employees helped clear over-growth in both sites,the work involved strimming, weeding and raking, and pruning hedges and trees.. To improve accessibility to the newer areas of the nature reserve the team helped in clearing and laying paths.
Tessella’s efforts will help encourage a varied and thriving ecosystem in a busy urban environment, while the cleared paths ensure the local community can enjoy these wildlife spaces. Both sites rely heavily on volunteers to help maintain the areas.
David Cole, Analyst Programmer, Tessella, said: ‘The response I received for the Tessella Community Day was overwhelming. It was great to see everybody contributing and as a team we could make a huge impact to these important community sites.’
David Cole added: ‘Not only were Tessella contributing to the local community but it also proved to be a perfect team-building day with a difference. It was so popular that I’ve no doubt we’ll return to strengthen these community ties year after year’.
Ruth Conway, who has coordinated the work to transform the churchyard from a derelict no-go area to an attractive quiet green space, says: ‘Being a small team, we cannot manage all the maintenance tasks ourselves. We are extremely grateful that Tessella employees took time off to prune the conservation hedges, clear overgrown invasive plants, and strim and rake tangled grass.”
Ruth added: ‘We rely heavily on companies like Tessella who volunteer to help us tackle these conservation tasks – it makes all the difference.’
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Oxford Urban Wild Life
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Relates to: corporate-responsibility
