People supported by Emmaus Hull & East Riding are enjoying a revamped garden thanks to B&Q St Andrews Quay donating staff time and products to the project.
On Monday 23 September, a team of six colleagues from B&Q St Andrews Quay volunteered at The Orchard – our community home – to transform the garden. Emmaus Hull & East Riding provides a home, training, work opportunities and individual support to people who have experienced homelessness.
Min Newton, Team Leader at B&Q St Andrews Quay, said: “Visiting Emmaus and seeing their garden as a blank canvas at the start, it looks amazing now we’ve finished. It is very rewarding to support a local charity. The community here is amazing and walking away looking at our achievements was absolutely brilliant. It was my first time doing a B&Q Community Day but it is definitely not my last.”
Min and fellow B&Q staff members worked together to tidy our grounds, build new raised planters, plant flowers, install a new shed and tool station. The improvements will benefit the 30 people who live at our community and allow residents to maintain the garden more easily.
A much-improved space
Fred Lazenby, Progression Worker at Emmaus Hull & East Riding, said: “It was a pleasure to welcome the B&Q volunteers to our residential community home in Hull and the team worked really well together. We’d like to say a huge thank you to the team and to B&Q for their generosity, donations, time and effort to create a much-improved space for the people we support.”
As a local charity, Emmaus Hull & East Riding relies on a range of support from individuals, partner organisations and businesses. In addition to our Hull residential community, we also deliver an outreach service in the East Riding, providing direct support to people who are street homeless.
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