Who We Are
Founded by the Willcocks family in 1974, today, Active Tree Services is an Australian owned business with a national footprint and a workforce of 800 committed to delivering services in arboriculture, vegetation management, consultancy and systems.
WHAT’S IMPORTANT TO US
At Active, our purpose is Keeping our communities safe and green. It drives everything we do, whether it’s delivering world class vegetation management services to help ensure public safety through bushfire prevention and tree safety management or urban greening through tree planting and watering.
Who We Are
Founded by the Willcocks family in 1974, today, Active Tree Services is an Australian owned business with a national footprint and a workforce of 800 committed to delivering services in arboriculture, vegetation management, consultancy and systems.
WHAT’S IMPORTANT TO US
At Active, our purpose is Keeping our communities safe and green. It drives everything we do, whether it’s delivering world class vegetation management services to help ensure public safety through bushfire prevention and tree safety management or urban greening through tree planting and watering.
Safe
The services Active provides are essential to public safety, whether we’re helping to ensure bushfire prevention and power supply integrity working with our energy sector clients or assessing, caring for, pruning or removing hazardous trees for local government, institutions, schools and other organisations.
For our Active family, the community of our workmates, our families and ourselves, personal safety is paramount. Active was the first in the industry to introduce smaller, telescopic insulated Elevated Work Platforms (EWPs), setting up an importing business to bring this innovation to market, and continues to import them to this day. We pioneered industry training videos and the integration of safety processes into our everyday workflow. Our R&D facility has produced safety innovations adopted by our clients. Our work and innovation continues, founded on principles such as “keeping people out of the air”. We care and we do.
Safe
The services Active provides are essential to public safety, whether we’re helping to ensure bushfire prevention and power supply integrity working with our energy sector clients or assessing, caring for, pruning or removing hazardous trees for local government, institutions, schools and other organisations.
For our Active family, the community of our workmates, our families and ourselves, personal safety is paramount. Active was the first in the industry to introduce smaller, telescopic insulated Elevated Work Platforms (EWPs), setting up an importing business to bring this innovation to market, and continues to import them to this day. We pioneered industry training videos and the integration of safety processes into our everyday workflow. Our R&D facility has produced safety innovations adopted by our clients. Our work and innovation continues, founded on principles such as “keeping people out of the air”. We care and we do.
& Green
Active works with Councils, government institutions, public and private companies to plant and preserve trees, promote urban greening, canopy cover and create habitats..
Our work in bushfire mitigation is not only essential to the integrity of our energy supply and the other assets we protect but in preserving the flora and fauna around those assets.
Our “Act Green” team of Active employees work to foster reduced fuel and material usage, the re-use of resources such as felled trees and branches, the recycling of our waste streams through in-house initiatives and directly support local community projects such as mulch supply and tree planting.
Active is independently endorsed as a carbon neutral business. Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions have been assessed and forecast and carbon offsets procured both locally (Australian native reforestation in the Yarra Yarra biodiversity corridor) and overseas.
Through Printreleaf, we plant trees to replace the paper we use.
& Green
Active works with Councils, government institutions, public and private companies to plant and preserve trees, promote urban greening, canopy cover and create habitats..
Our work in bushfire mitigation is not only essential to the integrity of our energy supply and the other assets we protect but in preserving the flora and fauna around those assets.
Our “Act Green” team of Active employees work to foster reduced fuel and material usage, the re-use of resources such as felled trees and branches, the recycling of our waste streams through in-house initiatives and directly support local community projects such as mulch supply and tree planting.
Active is independently endorsed as a carbon neutral business. Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions have been assessed and forecast and carbon offsets procured both locally (Australian native reforestation in the Yarra Yarra biodiversity corridor) and overseas.
Through Printreleaf, we plant trees to replace the paper we use.
Supporting Our Communities
The Active team takes great pride in our business, our clients and the work we do. We also take considerable pride in the fact that 10% of our profits go to charitable endeavours via the ATS Charitable Trust. This is a unique capability of a private business. “Avenues of Honour” is one such beneficiary, a fantastic project of national tree planting which links and revives more than 600 living historic sites around Australia that honour Australians who have made the supreme sacrifice in war. Mental health and children’s charities are other focus areas, some having been nominated by Active staff over the years.
Our Charities
- Australian Doctors Incorporated
- Barnados
- Cerebral Palsy Alliance
- Fred Hollows
- Gawura
- Heart Foundation
- Inspire Foundation
- MS Society
- Medecins Sans Frontieres
- The Meribel Foundation
- Opportunity International
- Oxfam
- Phunktional
- Smile Foundation
- Reachout
- Redkite
- Royal Far West
- Salvation Army
- Shake it Up Foundation
- Sir David Martin Foundation
- Surf Aid
- Taronga Conservation Society
- Wayside Chapel
- The Wilderness Society, Australia
- Women’s Community Shelters
- Young Care
Supporting Our Communities
The Active team takes great pride in our business, our clients and the work we do. We also take considerable pride in the fact that 10% of our profits go to charitable endeavours via the ATS Charitable Trust. This is a unique capability of a private business. “Avenues of Honour” is one such beneficiary, a fantastic project of national tree planting which links and revives more than 600 living historic sites around Australia that honour Australians who have made the supreme sacrifice in war. Mental health and children’s charities are other focus areas, some having been nominated by Active staff over the years.
Our Charities
- Australian Doctors Incorporated
- Barnados
- Cerebral Palsy Alliance
- Fred Hollows
- Gawura
- Heart Foundation
- Inspire Foundation
- MS Society
- Medecins Sans Frontieres
- The Meribel Foundation
- Opportunity International
- Oxfam
- Phunktional
- Smile Foundation
- Reachout
- Redkite
- Royal Far West
- Salvation Army
- Shake it Up Foundation
- Sir David Martin Foundation
- Surf Aid
- Taronga Conservation Society
- Wayside Chapel
- The Wilderness Society, Australia
- Women’s Community Shelters
- Young Care
Our Values
Our values have been articulated based on who we are and who we aspire to be. Their origins lie in the founding of our business and, today, help communicate and instil our unique culture as new generations of team Active commence and continue to serve our clients around Australia.
Our Values
Our values have been articulated based on who we are and who we aspire to be. Their origins lie in the founding of our business and, today, help communicate and instil our unique culture as new generations of team Active commence and continue to serve our clients around Australia.
Active People
Active People typically work in small teams, “crews”, often in remote and beautiful locations and almost always outdoors. Our crews are supported the Operations Team, Leadership Team, Board and by their colleagues in workshops and offices around the country. Here are some of their stories.
Active supports diversity in our workplace.
TEAM MEMBER STORIES
Team Member Stories
Active People
Active people are bound through a common purpose and lived values that make Active a great place to work. We work in small teams, our crews, often in remote and beautiful locations and almost always outdoors.
TEAM MEMBER STORIES
Operations Team
Active’s Operations Team manage the delivery of our front line, in-field services around Australia. They come from diverse backgrounds, bound through a common purpose and lived values that make Active a great place to work. Please meet the team in your state.
OPERATIONS TEAM
OPERATIONS TEAM
Meet our Operations TeamOperations Team
Active’s Operations Team manage the delivery of our front line, in-field services around Australia. They come from diverse backgrounds, bound through a common purpose and lived values that make Active a great place to work. Please meet the team in your state.
Leadership Team
Board
Founder
MARK WILLCOCKS
FOUNDER
In 1974 Mark started a small business, which has since grown into Active Tree Services, an industry leading organisation.
Mark has been instrumental in bringing together tree contracting organisations through leadership of industry bodies and the sponsorship of Arboriculture Australia and Utility Arborist Association of Australia. He has played a key role in raising the level of professionalism and safety through the development of an industry code of practice and standards.