Horniman gardens.

[Tarot]

There is number of redundencies drawn up for Horniman,once again volunteers have taken another job away from someone.

Its a growing sneaky ploy that started in Dulwich park,they let the keen volunteers do work, and take a mans/womans

livlihood away.

The latest victim has worked at Hornimans for fifteen years,a fully qualified master gardener,now leaving the Gardens bereft of the only person with horticultural skill.and top City and Guild qaulifications.;.,

What angers me is this man,who was out on leave for an accident while working.was told by letter he was to be made

redundant,what a snide move.,then his told he has the lowest redundancy pay.

I think Hornimans treated him very shabily, his such a decent bloke too.

So whose safe at that place,no one.

Before you volunteer, think whose job you are putting in jepordy. Hornimans staff, The Swine.

[Sue]

I agree being told you're being made redundant in a letter is pretty poor.

But a lot of horticultural/parks staff are being made redundant at various councils due to council cuts - I doubt it's anything to do with the presence of the volunteers.

I went to the Rookery (at the top of Streatham Common) yesterday and was really disappointed to see the pretty garden with the rivulets and waterfalls returning to the weedy and neglected state it was in for a long time during the Tory regime in the eighties.

The gardens in Norwood Grove, just next to the Rookery, were in an even worse state of neglect. Different council apparently (Croydon rather than Lambeth).

So actually the volunteers may be doing us all a favour as without them the situation at the Horniman might be even worse.