Saturday 5th April
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Report written by Laura
After park run we headed to the garden at Sunshine and Smiles to do various jobs including:
-Moving the broken bench and the bag of garden waste to the front garden -re-filling the sandpit with the grey bags of sand at the side of the garden -Cleaning the benches, slides and red spinning cone. - Sanding & re-painting the benches -Raking out all the sticks from the grassy areas
It's amazing what we can do in an hour and the garden was transformed by the end, ready for an event next week.
Welcome to Alex for her first session!
Good work team!
Sunshine & Smiles is a charity which organises free groups and events to improve the lives and opportunities of children and families living with Down syndrome in Leeds. We are based at Stainbeck Community Hall which has a small garden. This space would be perfect for running groups for the children we support over the summer, giving them space to enjoy playing outside; many of those we support do not have their own gardens. It has been used in the past, however it has been left to become worn out and unsafe. We would love to see this become a green space again, and there is a fence and benches that could do with repainting and a sandpit that needs emptying and refilling. The charity is run by a small and very busy team, and we would love some help so that we could use this garden this summer. Any gardening expertise would be a bonus too!
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