Estate's facelift project
Thursday, 3rd August 2000.
RESIDENTS in Haverhill are transforming part of the Clements estate in an arts and environment project.
Work has started to develop the area around Leiston social club into a site that will be attractive to people and wildlife.
Volunteers from the estate have joined up with Suffolk Wildlife Trust’s Wildlife on Your Doorstep scheme and have been busy at morning and afternoon workshops.
The mosaics of butterflies, flowers and bees made by local residents will be mounted on the social centre.
Other activities during the workshops, which are supported by the Arts 604 club, include decorating fences and concrete casting.
Children have helped make banners which invite people to drop into the project and lend a hand.
Project leader Sara Winning said: “We want to get people interested in wildlife through art. Everybody on the estate has been invited to come and get involved.
“This is the first stage of a longer-term plan. We are starting with the social centre and we hope to get all round the estate and into each different court.”
Pupils from Clements Primary School will also get involved later this year.
In October, they will help the Wildlife on Your Doorstep team to design and create a garden in front of their school.
On August 22 at 6pm there will be an official unveiling of the artwork, which will be installed at the social centre by St Edmundsbury Borough Council.
Work has started to develop the area around Leiston social club into a site that will be attractive to people and wildlife.
Volunteers from the estate have joined up with Suffolk Wildlife Trust’s Wildlife on Your Doorstep scheme and have been busy at morning and afternoon workshops.
The mosaics of butterflies, flowers and bees made by local residents will be mounted on the social centre.
Other activities during the workshops, which are supported by the Arts 604 club, include decorating fences and concrete casting.
Children have helped make banners which invite people to drop into the project and lend a hand.
Project leader Sara Winning said: “We want to get people interested in wildlife through art. Everybody on the estate has been invited to come and get involved.
“This is the first stage of a longer-term plan. We are starting with the social centre and we hope to get all round the estate and into each different court.”
Pupils from Clements Primary School will also get involved later this year.
In October, they will help the Wildlife on Your Doorstep team to design and create a garden in front of their school.
On August 22 at 6pm there will be an official unveiling of the artwork, which will be installed at the social centre by St Edmundsbury Borough Council.
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