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West gardens appreciated in the rain D.A.
In contrast to July’s scorcher the weather was miserable in June for the West Swindon Open Garden’s weekend, DRIVEWAYS
but visitors turned out in record numbers to appreciate the hard work of gardeners of Shaw and Nine Elms.
They also brought a ray of sunshine & PATIOS
to two Swindon charities by contrib- ❐ Block Paving
uting £2,031.32 in entry tickets and ❐ Landscaping ❐ Fencing
raffle purchases. ❐ Decorative Stone
Participating gardeners voted on
the charities to support and agreed ❐ General Maintenance
proceeds would be split with 65 per For a professional and
cent going to SMASH youth men- affordable service,
toring and 35 per cent allocated to free consultation and
Prospect Hospice. written quotation
SMASH has been sent £1,320.36 Tel: 01793 878062
and Prospect received £710.96 in Refreshing volunteers, from left, Lesley Dredge, Eleanor Snowden Antje Baker, or 07866 523898
addition to £166.77 dontated to col- Jenny Machin, Jackie Hughes, Jean Haywood
lection jars and another £213.50 via an employer’s matched fundraising.

Tidying up communities
Freshbrook Brownies took advantage of great weather in early July to do
a litter sweep around Freshbrook Village Centre.
Not only did the girls collect loads of rubbish, they were rewarded with
the Brownies Well Done badge.

Toothill Village Centre received a big spruce up with help from pupils from
Hazelwood Academy Primary School, residents and Toothill community
centre volunteers who were joined by Swindon Council neighbourhood
wardens and Police Community Support Officers from the West Swindon
Neighbourhood Police Team.
Homebase Distribution in Swindon and colleagues at the North Swindon UNITS 19-20 KENDRICK INDUSTRIAL ESTATE
store donated paint, gardening tools and plants, whilst Asda and the One SWINDON WILTS SN2 2DU
Stop shop at Toothill Centre contributed refreshments.
Community facilitator Gail Light, who organised the event, said: “It was a
blazing day but all the volunteers - some who came from outside the area TEL: 01793 536784
- worked really hard to make the area look nicer. Weeds were dug up and over-
grown branches cut back, benches were painted and the children picked up SANSUM SAND & GRAVEL SUPPLY TO THE
loads of litter. I really hope residents appreciate the tremendous effort put in.” GENERAL PUBLIC AND TRADE CUSTOMERS
Russell Robertson, Homebase operations manager said he hoped that
a team of colleagues will return to the centre to plant shrubs close to the BRICKS,
community centre.
The clean up team expressing their pride in keeping Toothill tidy CONCRETE BLOCKS,
CELCON BLOCKS,

BLOCK PAVING,
PATIO SLABS, SAND,
GRAVEL, TOP SOIL, BARK,
CANTABURY SPAR,
LANDSCAPE FABRIC,
DRAINAGE CHANNELS,
BUILDING CHEMICALS,
ROCK SALT AND CEMENT

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