Even though we are not getting any government bail outs (due to being a limited company with sub-contractors who are also limited) the one good thing about working while most other people are in lockdown is that the roads are very quiet and there's no traffic. I went out on the tools today to get some more photos for our websites and social media. Today was a typical day of what we do. This is how we make the money that we spend on birding and eco-social projects. As far as I'm concerned this is how all businesses should be run- effectively mini governments, that make money and re-distribute it and that cap director wages, share the business out amongst the employees and spend profits on maintaining and enhancing ecological and human communities. Sounds like bullshit but we've been doing if for 20 years with the results to prove it, while our local councils have introduced procurement processes to stop businesses like ours growing and handing over all the parks and green spaces to a French multi-national (with mansion and yacht buying CEOs) who are doing such a shit job that Merton Council are subbing it back out locally to us. We (everyone and everything) are almost certainly heading towards economic meltdown as a result of this virus- will see if companies like ours can rise in the chaos- as our model does create economic, social and environmental capital and if Capitalism does go into meltdown, and this could be the big one, the biggest depression the world has ever seen, we have got a tiny part of the solution (if we can survive). Is everyone sick of these yacht and mansion buying business owners yet? If not hopefully soon.... its not possible for value creators to compete and grow when value extractors are allowed to grow bigger.
The mobile obs doubled up as the tea van today
Van 2- each one of these units (van,chipper, tools and gear) costs about £40,000 . In total we've got about quarter of a million pound costs to cover each year. We have to make nearly £5000 a week before we make a penny profit. That is going to be extremely difficult if the road ahead falls away!
Van 3
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