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All in a day’s work – UPM Tilhill volunteers complete school grounds makeover

A ten-strong team of forest managers and administration staff from UPM Tilhill’s north west England office at Kirkby Lonsdale took up the challenge to help transform the grounds of Lindale Pre and Primary Schools at Lindale, Grange over Sands, Cumbria on Friday 30th January.

As part of UPM Tilhill’s UK-wide Community Action Days initiative, the team set to work to clear, plant and fence the school grounds. Children from reception to year 6 volunteered enthusiastically to help the team clear unwanted trees and ground cover from the school’s overgrown beech maze.

“When we heard that one of our local primary schools had secured funding to create an interactive garden area, we offered to help stretch the grant funding further by undertaking the initial clearance works,” said John Deakin, District Manager, UPM Tilhill. “This was an ideal project for our Community Action Day initiative and by the day’s end, with plenty of help from the school pupils, we had completed the challenge. The school can now concentrate on the next phase of its school grounds’ transformation.”

Head teacher Angie Leonard said: “We are extremely grateful to staff and management at UPM Tilhill for their contribution to the project. The voluntary work undertaken by the group will have a great impact and be of benefit to the whole of our community.”

The team cleared an overgrown outdoor area to the front of the pre-school; created three planters and planted them with a range of suitable shrubs, courtesy of UPM Tilhill, and erected a wooden trellis along a boundary wall. At the back of the primary school, the team cleared an existing hazel and beech maze in preparation for future landscaping works planned by the school and supplied and planted two ornamental trees to a grassed area.

Peter Middleton, Commercial Director, UPM Tilhill, said: “Well done to the north west England team for rolling up their sleeves and taking on the first Community Action Day challenge of the year. I hope the pupils, parents and teachers of the school will get much pleasure from their school grounds’ ‘makeover’. "

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Ruth Roy, Head of Marketing, UPM Tilhill. Tel: 01892 861008, Mob" 07771 940494.

UPM Tilhill is the UK's leading landscaping, arboriculture and environmental works company. The company provides a full range of consultancy and contracting services to civil engineers, developers, landscape architects and local authorities as well as landowners. The company is a member of BALI and is registered with Construction Line, Achilles and Link-up, and has a CSCS Gold Standard Certificate.