General

We are extremely proud of our staff and want to promote an environment where our staff feel like part of the family, feel valued, safe and listened to and in return, want to play their part in making our company a success. Alisha Wala, Finance and Contracts Assistant and Fleet Administrator joined us in 2020, and below she tells us all about her role at Ubico, and what she enjoys about being part of the Ubico family.

At Ubico, we take immense pride in keeping the spaces and places where people work and visit clean, green and tidy. We know that we impact the lives of everyone where we work so we take great care to deliver quality and get it right first time. We are delighted to announce that the maintenance for Stratford Park, a 56 acre park located just outside the centre of Stroud, is now being managed by Ubico. We are committed to ensuring that this site remains a wonderful asset to the community that can be enjoyed by many.

The Ubico Board is delighted to announce Beth Boughton's appointment to permanent Managing Director role at Ubico after holding the post on an interim basis since February 2020

As we navigate the unprecedented situation the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak has presented us with, Ubico continues to provide key frontline services to our community which are vital for public health.

The safety of our employees, contractors and customers remains our number one priority and we are continuing to closely follow the advice of Public Health England and the UK Government. We are also working closely with our trade unions, GMB and Unison, to ensure the safety and wellbeing of our employees remains a top priority.

We are pleased to announce that we have officially achieved recertification of the internationally recognized ISO 14001 standard in Environmental Management, following an audit from NQA, an external auditor, whose standards are recognised as being amongst the highest in their industry.

We are proud to announce that together with our partners at Stroud District Council our waste and recycling service for the district has made it on to the shortlist of the National Recycling Awards 2019.

Ubico has recently created an internal compliance team and have recently been actively recruiting to fill positions for Compliance Managers. I am delighted to confirm that Claire Blizzard moves into the role of Fleet Compliance Manager, and will continue to carry on her excellent work primarily around Fleet compliance audits. Jon Dowell, previously of our west Oxfordshire contract joins the team as Health Safety & Environment Manager.

Ubico are very proud to announce that our contract with Stroud District Council has ranked fourth in the Highest Household Recycling and Composting Rates (2017/18) recently published on letsrecycle.com. This has seen an astounding 15.7% increase from 2016/2017.

Ubico are pleased to announce that we are now a member of The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA).

MAJOR UPGRADE TO RECYCLING CENTRE

Pyke Quarry household recycling centre at Stroud is being given an overhaul.

Pyke Quarry household recycling centre (HRC) at Horsley will close from 4th to 22nd June while its equipment is updated.