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Community Spirit In Tins At Charity Farm
A COMMUNITY farm in Leicester, which was targeted by vandals, is sporting a bright new look for summer with support from a city based painting and decorating company.
J & S Seddon teamed up with paint suppliers ICI to give Gorse Hill City Farm, in Anstey Lane, a £2,000 makeover after recent vandal attacks left buildings and the farm playground covered in graffiti.
Painters from the company’s Leicester office - based in Westleigh Business Park, Blaby - spent a week at the site where they re-painted adventure playground equipment, a barn and the exterior of the farm café all using paint specially selected by ICI technical specifier Janet Robinson.
Sue Minkley, of client services at J & S Seddon, said: “We were saddened to hear of the vandal attacks at Gorse Hill City Farm a few months ago and thought we would step in to help out.
“Thanks to help from ICI in supplying the paint we have been able to carry out the contract free of charge.
“We waited until the fine weather this spring to do the work. The City Farm is a great community project and we were pleased to be able to help out.”
Farm manager Sarah Crookall said: “The painters from J & S Seddon have done a superb job. They have made the place look fantastic and we are really pleased.
“It’s nice to have support like this because, as a charity project, we have to raise enough money to meet our everyday running costs without having to dig deeper into our funds to put right the damage done by vandals.”
The twenty-acre Gorse Hill City Farm receives grant aid from Leicester City Council to meet its £100,000 annual running costs.
It is open 365 days a year as a visitor attraction allowing children to get close to farm animals including cattle, sheep, goats and pigs. The facility is also regularly used as an education centre and is run as a working farm.
Release Date: July 08
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