25/05/2010
Corporate volunteers help transform garden area
This June, scores of volunteers from a Stratford-based company will be helping transform a disused garden into a beautiful, useful space.
Around eighty volunteers from Valpak will be joining Action 21 over eight days this June to help get the Sustainability Centre Garden at East Lodge in Jephson Gardens sorted and ready to receive visitors.
The volunteers will be doing a huge range of tasks, from laying a patio and paths, cleaning ponds, planting herbs, weeding, making compost bins and maybe even some habitat boxes.
Steve Gough, Valpak CEO, says: "Valpak are very proud to sponsor the Action 21 Sustainability Centre, as we feel that this initiative mirrors Valpak’s core values. Through our recycle-more website we offer advice and tips on how to recycle, as well as encouraging consumers to lead sustainable lives and reduce their impact on the environment. We feel that through sponsorship of this project we can help to educate and inform the local community about environmental issues, as well as demonstrating how everyone can help to improve the environment in which we live. "
Action 21’s Sustainability Centre is due to open to the public this summer, showcasing a wide variety of information about local practical projects that help make our community greener. In the garden there’ll be information about composting, growing your own and encouraging wildlife, whilst inside there’ll be a lot of details about environmental and sustainability projects, things people can get involved in and even an observation bee hive.
Valpak have been joined in their generous donation of time and resources by Leamington’s Building and Plumbing Supplies, who have donated a lot of the materials needed for the hard landscaping.
Eleanor Perkins, Action 21 says: “We’re so grateful to Valpak, and to BPS too, for their generosity and commitment to supporting local sustainability initiatives.”
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