• Home Page
• -
• News Centre
• -
• News Archive
• -
• 2007
• -
• September
• -
• What a difference a week makes!

Access Tools

Volunteers who gave up their free time have made a huge difference to a neighbourhood in Huyton.

Around 40 people, young and old, turned out for a five-day community clean up event in St Bartholomew’s and got to work clearing rubbish, painting fences, tidying footpaths and cutting back bushes.

The intrepid group even put their artistic skills to work brightening up the old mural at Roby Station and creating a new one in the underpass, as well as painting a wall at the rear of St Bartholomew’s Church graveyard, protecting it from graffiti.

As well as tidying it, the work has opened up the area and improved visibility, helping to increase safety and reduce people’s fear of crime.

Tommy Dunn, Area Development Officer for South Huyton, said: “The volunteers did an absolutely fantastic job which deserves to be recognised.

“Lots of people have commented on how much of an improvement the week’s work has made – people have more pride in the area and they feel safer and more secure.

“All that has come from a handful of people giving up just a few hours of their lives – it goes to show the amazing achievements that can be made when people work together for the good of their local area.”

Thanks go also to Merseytravel, who financed the repainting of the existing mural at Roby station, and the cost of the artist who helped the local volunteers with the design, which included local landmarks such as Huyton Library, the Wildflower Centre at Court Hey Park, St Bartholomew’s Church and King George V Playing Fields.

Knowsley Council’s wardens and Pride team also turned out during the week to lend a hand.

-Ends-

A copy of Adobe Acrobat reader is needed to enable access to the PDF document(s) above. If you do not already have this click to Download Adobe Acrobat Reader (Link opens in a new window) now.

To read the PDF document with a screen reader please visit Access Adobe website (Link opens in a new window), which provides useful tools and resources. Adobe also has a free online conversion tool for PDFs.