Bransholme gets a brush up

A gardening and home improvement service for people in North Carr is seeking community projects for its volunteers to tackle.
Building Futures was set up with Lottery funding and carried out 98 jobs last year for people living in the area.
The service provides free home improvements and gardening skills training for people aged 20 or over, who then volunteer to help elderly and disabled residents, single parents and isolated members of the community to maintain their homes and gardens.
Volunteers learn DIY and gardening skills including plastering, tiling, wallpapering, hanging doors, painting, laying laminate floors, decking, patios and turf, putting up fencing, and planting flowerbeds.
The volunteers have also completed several community projects, such as putting up a 300ft fence around land at St John's Church in Wawne Road and bird boxes and footpath signs in woodlands at North Bransholme.
"Elderly and disabled residents and lone parents in the HU7 area who need small decorating and gardening jobs doing can buy their own materials and give us a call, and our volunteers and course tutors will do the work free and to a professional standard," says Pete Wright, senior tutor for Building Futures.
"We need new community projects and welcome any suggestions.
If there is a public building or patch of land in North Carr we can improve let us know and we'll see what we can do."
The project, based at Dales Fitness Centre in Snowdon Way, has trained more than 100 volunteers in the last 12 months.
"Building Futures has been a great support for people on low incomes during the recession," says Cllr Anita Harrison.
"If further sources of funding can be found we would extend the service across the city."

For more information call 307 991.