News : Hanwell Garden Opening
Opening Ceremony of the newly created gardens at North Hanwell Baptist
Church, West London
North Hanwell Baptist Church are delighted with their newly created gardens. Two gardens were created by Sally, Jesse and Brett of All Gardening as part of the Park Royal Partnership Action Day that took place on 29th September 2006.
The Rev. Sandra Thwaites of the Baptist Church was so delighted with
her child and environment friendly back garden and the rainbow themed
front gardens, that she decided to have an opening ceremony. In attendance
were: Rev. Sandra Thwaites (of the Baptist Church), Rosanna Henderson
who co-ordinated the Action Day and the opening ceremony, Becky Walsh
of All Gardening, Deputy Mayor Hazel Ware - who cut the ribbons, MP for
Ealing North Steve Pound who made a fantastic speech and awarded plaques
to Becky and Sandra to place in the gardens to commemorate the event.
In line with the whole ethos of the Baptist Church, this was a fun, friendly
and community focussed event and those community groups who joined in
the fun were: Parent & Toddlers, Hanwell Neighbourly Care, Castlebar
School, and of course folk from the church. Everyone held the ribbons
and a huge cheer went up when it was cut and the garden declared 'officially
open'.
All Gardening carried out all the work on a voluntary basis, giving time,
skills, expertise, knowledge and tools for free as well as a lot of hard
graft. Becky Walsh said in her speech that this was a great team building
initiative as it was rare that Sally, Brett and Jesse all got to work
on a project together - they got to know each other much better, had fun
and created 2 gardens that will give a lot of pleasure to a lot of people
and the community for years to come.
Rosanna emphasised the importance of Action Days and employee volunteering - stating that as well as the immediate benefits, it is the long term, ripple effect impact that cannot be monitored that is the real bonus. She would be keen for as many companies as possible to put a
Employee Volunteering Programme into place and would be happy to talk to companies and community groups about this.
Posted 13th October 2006
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