Kieran Beattie
A team of Aberdeen bank staff swapped their calculators for gardening gloves to bring the green shoots of recovery to a community allotment scheme in the city.
Volunteers from Bank of Scotland on Albyn Place built footpaths, marked out garden spaces, trimmed hedges and generally made the Cummings Park site more attractive.
Organised by the Aberdeen City Council, the project in Northfield is part of ongoing efforts to get businesses involved in communities across the city.
Over the course of three days last month, the team transferred around a tonne of woodchip, made 12 new allotments ready for use, and ins 14 railway sleepers to form two new paths at the public garden.
Neil Cooney, the convener of the city council’s communities, housing and infrastructure committee said: “It was a huge amount of work carried out by the team and just shows what a bit of effort and pulling together can achieve.
“We welcome efforts by groups to make a difference in their local area as it’s the people who live and work there who benefit from this work.
“I’m sure the Bank of Scotland’s colleagues’ efforts will be hugely appreciated by the community both now and in the years to come.”
Bank of Scotland relationship director Alan Flint said: “All the team thoroughly enjoyed the experience.
“Working together for the good of the community gave everyone a real sense of pride and we were delighted to be able to help in a practical way and support such a worthwhile project.”
