Border Agency cleans up garden
A GARDEN at a centre for people with learning disabilities in Nailsea has been given a makeover.
An eight-strong squad from the UK Border Agency, based in Portishead, swapped their desks and laptops for spades and rakes to visit Nailsea's Scotch Horn Centre. Their mission was to get stuck in to a big overgrown garden at the centre, working alongside members of the award-winning Bespoke Group of people who have learning disabilities.
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A squad from the UK Border Agency helped out at the Scotch Horn Centre in Nailsea equipped with spades, rakes and other equipment and got stuck in to a big garden tidy-up operation
The group, which is supported by charity the Brandon Trust, have become a familiar sight carrying out community gardening and other similar projects around North Somerset.
The UK Border Agency's Kenny Chapman, who led the Scotch Horn garden clean-up squad, said the day's volunteering was part of an initiative which helped civil servants become more involved with the communities in which they worked.
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The agency team became aware of the work of the Brandon Trust via Civil Service Local, an organisation which identifies volunteering opportunities for civil servants.
Brandon Trust chief executive Lucy Hurst-Brown said: "We are indebted to the public-spirited UK Border Agency staff who gave up some of their valuable time to help our Bespoke Group return the garden to a more useable condition."
Comments
by Hillcran
Friday, December 07 2012, 2:01PM
“I think they immigration should be controlled better than it is which is what I would assume the UK Border Agency is trying to acheive as best it can under current legislation. You cannot blame them if we have had succesive governments with an open door policy which does no favours for either this country or the immigrants arriving here. No doubt bristolreded would have us also deport all those with learning disabilities or those less well off than others and remove all the types of people he does not wish to share our island with. He obviously hasn't realised that those who spent the time offering their help did so in their free time. What charitable work do you do in your free time bristolreded?”
by bristolreded
Thursday, December 06 2012, 11:47AM
“We are full, we can't take in more immigrants.”
by PortisheadAH1
Wednesday, December 05 2012, 10:39PM
“A lovely story of volunteering in local communities. Well done to all.
To "bristolreded", perhaps you would like to clarify for us which immigrants you feel should be deported? Do you even know what the UK Border Agency in Portishead does? If you think their role is just "deporting immigrants" as you put it, then we are no further on now than when we had to put up with generalisations from those opposing the centres a few years back.”
by bristolreded
Wednesday, December 05 2012, 12:58PM
“They should be deporting immigrants not wasting time doing this nonesense.”