A team of fifteen unemployed young people from Leicester have been helping local elderly residents with plots at the Whitehouse Allotments on Stenson Road.
Daniel and the others on the CTF programme are not only clearing all weeds from the allotments and preparing the land to allow vegetables to be grown, but are also building benches to make the allotments a pleasant place to be and to encourage more people to take on plots.
Unemployed volunteers are lending a helping hand to Lowestoft’s Pets Corner, on Bridge Road, Oulton Board, so the local petting zoo is kept in tip-top condition.
The work carried out is the start of the CTF programme by Sawston Parish Council to improve and enhance its popular Millennium Copse and woodland walk by creating better habitat for wildlife and encouraging the growth of native wild flowers.
The community of Norman Street in Middleton started the summer with a new neighbourhood garden, thanks to the hard work of young people participating in an employment programme in Oldham.