CSR Volunteering Day at Stratford-upon-Avon Hospital
We enjoyed another great CSR Volunteering Day with ‘Volunteering Champion’ Kirsty Dyson and her team from Systems adi Group and adi Facilities Engineering.
The team of four joined us as adi Group is committed to offering employee volunteer days to increase support to the local community and each employee is allowed one volunteer day to help a local charity or organisation to give back to a cause of their choosing.
Full of energy, they helped us make brilliant progress to a garden we are creating at Stratford-upon-Avon hospital for NHS staff and patients.
After initially mattocking and digging the older soil to removing unwanted roots and obstructions, they added new topsoil and raked it level, preparing the new garden area ready for planting.
We were also joined on the day by Matt Wootton from Geberit and Sam Jones from Warwick District Green Party who helped us create a new 3x3 metre raised bed to add more veg growing space in our Kitchen Garden.
With sustainability at the core of everything we do, we created the planter out of recycled wooden sleepers and used old mental brackets to save them from going to waste.
We then lined the planter with a protective plastic sheeting and filled it with 4 tonnes of soil and peat-free compost, making it ready to start our veg growing season once again.
Our Green Therapy group were also in attendance as they weeded and planted up our brick raised beds to add some colour and vibrancy to the garden.
We thank everybody for their hard work and support and for being part of a day where we created such a positive impact on a green space which will be enjoyed by so many people when it opens.
