Vehicle routing and scheduling software specialist Paragon Software Systems is sponsoring a new business initiative for unemployed and homeless young people aged from 18 to 25 years. Set up by Indian Ocean rowing race world record breakers Guy Watts and lifelong friend James Grubb, Streetscape offers bespoke landscape gardening services.
Streetscape brings together Guy Watts’ landscaping and plant knowledge with the management team’s shared vision for social change. The organisation’s objective is to establish a sustainable business and charity for young people that will provide job training and guidance. To get things moving, the organisation is launching a pilot scheme to create a therapeutic garden at Stepney City Farm, Stepney Green.
The Stepney project will be the first venture where Streetscape will work with young people, teaching them essential landscaping and life skills that will help them gain future employment. The completed garden will provide a landscaped green area for the people and communities of East London.
The Streetscape team is busy fundraising and sharing its vision with potential sponsors and landscape gardening companies. Donations are beginning to come in to help finance the garden scheme but more support is welcome.
“Streetscape is a brilliant idea that will help unemployed young people find their true potential and future employment. This is a life-changing scheme and we are pleased to sponsor it. All at Paragon know that Guy Watts is a determined and driven individual because we sponsored and followed his record-breaking Indian Ocean rowing race team from start to finish. With Guy Watts at the helm, Streetscape is on course for success,” says William Salter, Managing Director of Paragon Software Systems.
