Ground Force - Loughborough StyleWilling workers at a leading local company are turning an used
area at a Loughborough school into an environmental garden - but the task will
help both groups.
Willing workers at a leading local company are turning an used
area at a Loughborough school into an environmental garden - but the task will
help both groups.Teams of workers from AstraZeneca R&D Charnwood are creating
a garden at Cobden Primary School, which the 280 pupils can care for and learn
from.But the medicines research company will also benefit from the
exercise. The 32 staff from AstraZeneca's General Services Department are
learning new skills and developing both team and leadership qualities. Some of
the company's contractors have also shown their green fingers by donating
equipment and materials, especially DTM Gardens & Landscapes, Catermasters
Contract Catering, Hi-Spec Contract Cleaners, OCS Support Services and JR
Personnel and Gill Cooke Recruitment Agencies.The plan for the environmental garden, being developed in
conjunction with the pupils, Environ and Business in the Community, includes a
pond, woodland and meadow areas, a path and bushes and shrubs which will
attract insect life. When complete, the pupils, who helped design what they
wanted it to look like, will care for the area using it as part of their
studies.Ends
