Finance workers took a day away from their desks for some hard manual labour at Park Gate Primary School.
Park Gate parent helpers, deputy head Rick Jump and Lloyds TSB workers dig up the roots
The team from Lloyd’s TSB Bank, as well as volunteer parents, dug up shrubs and roots and planted 161 fresh flowers to spruce up the garden areas at the school in Northmore Road.
It put the Lloyd’s TSB Bank workers who normally spend their working days based at an office in Hedge End, to the test.
Vicky Hart, senior audit manager at Lloyds TSB who was leading the team, said each year the company took part in an initiative called Give and Gain, where they carried out community work such as painting or gardening to help out an organisation, charity or school.
“It makes it more personal,” she said. “We like to get involved in local projects to give something back to the community. We all live in it and work in it.”
Deputy Head Teacher Rick Jump said: “It wouldn’t happen without these volunteers. At the moment for the school there isn’t time and money for this. If these people didn’t come in this would be left unless it became a focus for the children in a project.
“The generosity of these people is great. The plants we got were half price from B&Q too.
“These fantastic parent helpers have been great.”
