RELEASE DATE 14 February2006
TITLE CHILDRENS DRAWINGS TURN TO SIGNS
 

Children from primary schools in Bingham have been busy creating designs for new boundary signs at the four entrances to the town. Hundreds of children took part in the ‘Bingham Gateways’ competition, which was organised by Bingham Town Council and local regeneration charity Groundwork Greater Nottingham, as part of Nottinghamshire County Council’s Building Better Communities (BBC) initiative.

BBC is a wide ranging five-year programme that will see £25 million invested in making the county a better place to live and work.

Staff at Groundwork Greater Nottingham were amazed by the quality of the entries and had great difficulty selecting the winners. The standard was so high that a fifth design was chosen to be installed at the entrance to the Bingham Linear Routeway on Nottingham Road, which is currently being upgraded. Eleanor Holdich from Robert Miles Infant School, George Walker, Richard Dickens from Robert Miles Junior School, Yusuf Zerdazi and Madeleine Drabble from Carnarvon Primary School have all been invited to visit Malcolm Lane fabricators in Cropwell Bishop to see their drawings being turned into cast iron signs.

Speaking about the competition, The Mayor of Bingham, John Eagles, commented that he was delighted with these improvements to the town and he and his wife were looking forward to visiting Malcolm Lane with the youngsters.
 
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BACKGROUND INFORMATION

GGN has been established for 14 years

In a typical year we Groundwork Greater Nottingham works with communities to:-
· Develop and deliver at least 100 new projects
· Deliver over 4000 person days of youth activity
· Engage with over 200 local businesses
· Work in partnership with at least 80 schools
· Deliver 40 locally significant environmental improvement schemes
· Deliver 2 regionally significant conferences a year

We are currently working on 55 live projects

Nationally, Groundwork is one of the UK’s leading social and environmental partnership organisation’s, working with people, local authorities and businesses to promote economic and social regeneration by improving the local environment. Through it’s network of around 50 Independent Trust’s around the UK, from Tyneside to South Wales, Northern Ireland to Hackney, Groundwork uses the environment to improve their quality of life. Groundwork is an independent charity, which involves 60,000 adult volunteers and over 120,000 school children each year in local environmental projects. From small community schemes to major regional and national programmes, Groundwork’s local Trust’s work in partnership with local people, local authorities and businesses to promote sustainable developments in their local area.

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