Young people help deliver the goods
Young people who work with Warwickshire County Council’s Youth Offending Service at its Addison Road allotment plot have recently harvested their crops of fresh produce which they spent months planting and nurturing.
Representatives from the service, based at Newton Hall in Rugby, have been busy taking a selection of fruit and veg to Age Concern Warwickshire’s Claremont day centre for it to be handed out to its service users.
Penny Forrest, Reparation Practitioner at the Youth Offending Service, said: “This is another example of very positive work carried out by the service. The recipients of our produce are very grateful to the young people for providing such delicious organic produce.”
Sessional workers, led by gardening expert Mark Anderson-Howe, have been supervising groups of young people working on the allotments for the past four years. And in August, they won the ‘best allotment’ category in the Rugby In Bloom competition.
This year they have successfully grown a wide variety of produce including potatoes, broccoli, runner beans, leeks, marrows, parsnips and apples.