Community Payback Projects - how local communities have benefited

Community Payback Projects - how local communities have benefited

Baby Remembrance Garden, Warrington

 

To respond to the needs of the local community, the Warrington Community Payback team has created a special garden of remembrance within the grounds of Walton Lea Crematorium which will be opened later in the year.  The work included the creation and surfacing of footpaths.
 

 

The aim of the garden is to provide parents who have lost babies and young children with somewhere to visit and sit in peace and tranquillity.
 

 

The Community Payback team will continue to maintain the garden once or twice a month.
 
 
 
 

Hood Manor Neighbourhood Centre, Warrington

 
In response to concerns by local residents, Warrington Borough Council requested the Community Payback team to undertake grounds maintenance work at Hood Manor Neighbourhood Centre, Warrington.  The project was adopted by Councillor Graham Welborn, the former Mayor of Warrington, as one of his Mayoral projects.
 
Offenders dug over the flowerbeds between the parking bays, which were so hard and compacted they were like concrete.  Shrubs were cut back, topsoil spread and new flowers planted.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The new look has been welcomed by local residents visiting the shops, post office and community centre.  One resident wrote in to the team stating, "I really appreciate the hard work that is evidenced in the new planning scheme.  I wanted to express my sincere thanks to all the workers who have transformed the previously bedraggled bushes into this fine new planting scheme."
 
 
 
 
 
 

Trinity Church, Congleton

 

Trinity Church in Congleton is used by many sections of the community.  The garden at the rear of the church as been transformed from a jungle to a play area for young children.  The area has been cleared of overgrowth and has had swings and a climbing frame put up by the local Community Payback team.  The Community Payback team have also prepared and rendered the external walls which were in a poor state. 
 
 
The Community Payback team have also created disabled access to the rear of the church building by making a ramp and a paved patio area.  In the car park at the very back of the property the team has removed rubbish and overgrowth from the gardens and has cleared up the car park area.
 
Community Payback are involved in ongoing work at the church undertaking internal decoration and clearance, and path building work at the boundary of the church and the allotments.