Page 20 - Under The Roof Avonside Group staff newsletter - June 2019

UNDER THE ROOF

CHARITY WORK

Avonside Worksop & Bourne Support

Rhubarb Farm

STEWART HILL, BRANCH DIRECTOR OF AVONSIDE As the organisation continues to support
WORKSOP, AND RICHARD BOSTOCK, BRANCH vulnerable people to change their lives for the better,
DIRECTOR AT AVONSIDE BOURNE, ATTENDED AN Stewart and Richard say they will continue to support
EVENT WHICH SAW A NEWLY DONATED MINIBUS the local venture at Rhubarb Farm by providing any
HANDED OVER TO HORTICULTURAL-BASED surplus pallets, which the organisation will put to many
ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIAL ENTERPRISE, RHUBARB uses around the farm.
FARM, AND WERE TREATED TO A SPECIAL TOUR OF
THE RHUBARB FARM FACILITY IN LANGWITH ON
11TH MARCH.
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The photos, taken by Mark Hitchings from Stag
Communications, show just how many people turned
out to see the unveiling of the new minibus.
A huge portion (£12,000) of the £26,000 needed to
fund the new, urgently needed, branded minibus was
raised at the Efficiency East Midlands (EEM) awards
ceremony, which Stewart and Richard attended at the
Athena in Leicester in February. Avonside Bourne had
proudly sponsored the “Contractor of the Year”
category at the awards, which was won by J Tomlinson
Limited, with Property Plus (Housing Plus Group) being
the runner up.
Avonside Worksop, in particular, have worked very
closely with EEM framework for several years, carrying
out a large amount of social re-roofing.
Rhubarb Farm use therapeutic organic agricultural
activities to help support the unemployed, ex-
offenders, recovering drug and alcohol misusers,
excluded school students, people living with mental
and physical health conditions, dementia or learning
difficulties, ex-service personnel, and older, isolated
people.

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