Introduction I started with ELMs Contracting limited in 2019 after working for the National Trust and the Sheffield and Rotherham Wildlife Trust, I wanted to experience the variety of habitats our clients manage further afield and apply myself to getting the best out of every intervention. Back in 2009, I raked up a cut reedbed voluntarily on a Sunday for the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust, having spent my first employed year as an engineer in a Tunnel in Barrow-in-furness, it was