Congregations have Hope in their hearts (From This Is Wiltshire)

Congregations have Hope in their hearts

12:40pm Sunday 5th July 2009 in

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More than 300 volunteers were at a charity nature centre near Trowbridge at the weekend to help with maintenance and building work.

The volunteers, from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, were there for their annual Helping Hands Day and came from Trowbridge, Bath, Bristol, Taunton and Weston super Mare.

They helped dig a nine-hole crazy golf course and make a ‘fairy wood’ including carving toadstool seats, making wind chimes and creating ‘hobbit hopscotch’ and ‘pixie potion’ areas.

They also helped edge all the paths with bricks, painted fencing, recoated the Squirrels Tea Room, re-roofed the duck and geese house and made an entrance sign for the nature centre, in Southwick Country Park.

Each year the church chooses a project to help, providing free labour for the day from all the congregations in the area.

Sarah Turvey, from the church in Bradley Road, Trowbridge, said: “We plan to keep in regular contact with the Hope Nature Centre, helping out every year and doing a major service every three years for them.”

David Fleming, site manager at the centre, said: “The volunteers achieved a great deal on Saturday and have enhanced our park tremendously.”