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Get ready to
LANDSERVE
Garden Maintenance open up
& Landscaping West Swindon Open Gardens
Professional care `````` 20 & 21 June
for your garden The annual open gardens weekend
Grass cutting - regular maintenance is organised by Shaw Residents’
Landscaping - Patios & Paving Association, in aid of SMASH Youth
- repairs & cleaning Mentoring Project and Wiltshire
Decking and Fencing Wildlife Trust.
Hedge cutting & pruning This will be thirteenth event,
No Job Too Small. All works insured with over £24,000 having been
raised for charity in the previous
Call Martin Emery MI Hort. years. Organisers are keen to hear
for free quotation on 01793 703306 from householders who would
or Mobile 07771 956294 like to take part. For details mail:
[email protected]
www.shawresidents.org.uk Rosa and Ian Matheson with youngsters at Angel’s orphanage

Swindon Open Studios Nepal orphanage needs
5/6 and 12/13 September
help to find a new home

HIGHWORTH couple Rosa and Ian but with rents rocketing in Kath-
Matheson have travelled back to mandu, the owner of the orphanage
Kathmandu to find a new building building has put it up for sale and
for Angel’s Orphanage which they Rosa and Ian have until September
have supported for six years. to find another property for Angel’s
They became involved on a extended family.
medical mission to Nepal when “lt’s a desperate situation and we
they were asked to visit a group need Swindon people to come to
of orphaned street children who a the rescue,” said Rosa. “It is ironic
sherpa called Angel and his wife that the boom in rent levels is partly
had provided refuge for. due to the large number of wealthy
Swindon Night Scene They were all in poor state charities and NGOs sending aid
D.A. by David Robinson physically because of poverty but workers to Nepal.
“It’s amazing what the young
DRIVEWAYS Organisers of Swindon Open Studios with help from a growing band people in the orphanage are
of supporters from Wiltshire, the
& PATIOS are calling on artists to register to children now aged 6 to 16 are in achieving with help from Angel and
take part in the 2015 weekends
❐ Block Paving where visitors can discover the good health, receiving good educa- each other, as well as education. We
tion and the oldest are being placed really must find them a new home.
❐ Landscaping ❐ Fencing wealth of talent in the town. in apprenticeships. Find out more by contacting Rosa
Last September over 30 individual
❐ Decorative Stone artists opened their studios and After five years of settled living, and Ian: www.angelsorphanage.com
❐ General Maintenance many other contributors’ work was Did you achieve a self-build dream?
For a professional and shown in several group exhibitions
affordable service, and co-operatives. MARTIN McElreavey, who grew up benefits they suggest is that quality
free consultation and See details and register to take in Swindon, is working on an MSc is higher if people are responsible
written quotation part at www.swindonopenstudios. dissertation focussed on self-built for building their own homes
Tel: 01793 878062 org.uk houses of the 1970s/80s in the compared to speculative developer
The closing date for entries is 17
or 07866 523898 April. town. He is asking for anybody ‘cookie-cutter’ designs.
“I’d like to interview
involved in a project
during that period to Shaw Residents’ the current residents,
make contact. Association are holding whether or not they
So far he has a maintenance and litter were the original self
come across three clearance at Shaw Village builders, to find out
projects where centre on 14 March. what they think of
people came to- Details www.shaw their homes after 30
gether - Downsview residents.org.uk years or so of use.”
Self Build Housing The Link has directed
Association, Toothill Self Martin to self-built houses
Build Housing Association and adjacent to Oliver Tomkins Primary
Toothill Co-operative Dwellings. School field and at Bishopdale Close
Martin said: “My research is con- in Nine Elms.
cerned with the impact of self built If you’ve been involved in
housing on the quality of the built self-build or now live in a house
environment over the long term. that was originally built as part of
Recently the government has been self-build scheme and would be
trying to raise the profile of self willling to talk to Martin contact:
build. One of the many potential [email protected]
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