Dig in to help out community

Amateur gardeners are being challenged to bring a touch of green to their communities, donating their skills by planting flowers for local schools or turning waste ground into a rose garden.
By The Newsroom
Published 15th Oct 2012, 12:05 BST

It’s all part of the UK’s biggest single day of volunteering – CSV Make a Difference Day, on Saturday, October 27.

This year, CSV Make a Difference Day wants to show how everyone has a skill they can use to help others.

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For anyone handy with a trowel, ways to get involved include planting trees with local schoolchildren, designing a wildlife garden, digging up the weeds for an elderly neighbour, creating a community garden, to teaching families and young children how to grow their own vegetables.

Whatever your age, ability or experience, everyone has something to offer.

CSV Make a Difference Day research found that 42 per cent of volunteers in environment and conservation projects say that volunteering also helps them to lose weight, while 61 per cent also add
that volunteering helps them to combat stress. All volunteers who register their event will receive a ‘How-to’ guide containing helpful tips on how to ‘bake’ a difference.

Aside from gardening, Make a Difference Day, part of the UK volunteering charity CSV, is giving away several other free “how-to” guides to promote the wide variety of skills people can use and gain as volunteers. Each year, tens of thousands of people take part in the campaign to benefit the community. The nation knits blankets for the homeless; plants thousands of flowers to brighten up community gardens and bake brownies for nursing homes and youth centres.

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Project organisers can register their event on the CSV Make a Difference Day website to encourage more people to attend and claim an action pack. To register or find out more, visit www.csv.org.uk/difference, call FREEPHONE 0800 284 533 or email [email protected]