This week I was pleasantly surprised to discover that some of my colleagues and I had been nominated for a Pride of Reading award. The nomination was for a community project which I organised in the Summer of last year.
On the 15th of August 2008 myself and about twenty others from Yell spent a hard, but enjoyable day at the Albert Road Day Centre in Caversham. Whilst there we stormed our way through a seemingly endless list of jobs including; redecorating the reading room, painting the external pillars, pagodas and trellis, landscaping the car park, building a rockery, trimming the hedges, mowing the lawn and weeding the gardens.
My personal highlight of the day was the installation of a chicken coop kindly donated by Graham Barnard of Happy Hutch. Well… that and the BBQ lunch cooked by yours truly!
You can read more about the project and the nomination on the Get Reading website.