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Young green fingers overhaul community
garden
A youth group is seeking
donations to help them complete a much needed clean up at a local
community centre.
Princes Trust Wigan Team 39 has begun work to overhaul the garden areas
outside the Manley Street Ince Community Centre.
The clean up has involved digging up a large amount of weeds, cutting
back a number of overgrown shrubs and making the outside of the
community centre accessible to the host of groups who use it.
The Princes Trust team now want to plant flowers, install a barbeque,
put up a shed and put benches in the backyard, so they are appealing to
people to donate the items or cash to buy them.
Team member Lisa Murray, 19, said: “Lots of people use the community
centre, including the elderly, young mothers and their children and
youth groups, and it is used for community days, boxing lessons and art
classes.
“Our clean up has made a real difference but now we’re looking for
companies to donate benches, bricks for a barbeque, a table, pots,
plants and weed killer, so we can transform the place and make it an
even greater asset for the local community.
more.
“Blakeley’s from Platt Bridge have kindly lent us a skip, which they are
coming and emptying for us throughout the duration of the project, and
Wigan Council has provided us with woodchips. Now we want more companies
to come forward and help out too.”
The Prince’s Trust Team are carrying out the garden project as part of a
twelve-week personal development programme for unemployed 16 to 25
year-olds.
Lisa Murray adds: “The course is giving me skills that I didn’t have
before. I had to drop out of college because I was living on the streets
and this course has helped me get back the confidence I’d lost.”
Local resident Mrs Brogan, who lives next door to Manley Street Ince
Community Centre, said: “The young people are doing a very good job and
they are very polite. It is nice to see young people doing good work for
the community. The community centre garden has been in need of a good
tidy up for a long time.”
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Further information
• For further information please contact Kennedy Stewart, Young People’s
Press Officer at Wigan Leisure and Culture Trust, on (01942) 486927.
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Princes Trust Wigan Team 39 clear up Manley
Street Ince Community Centre - Pictured are: (from l to r) Karen Knowles
(team leader), Marc Price, Scott Parkinson, Paul Tinsely, Craig Yates
(volunteer), Keeko Parker, Kat Baron, Lisa Murray, Tim Marsh and Jon
Ashcroft.
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