bulb planting

Local company backs pupils' bulb planting
March 2018		A GREENSPACES SOUTH CHESHIRE CIC PAGE

AFTER trading in the Nantwich area for 25 years, estate agents Baker Wynne and Wilson of Pepper Street donated £25,000 to local voluntary groups in 2017.

Greenspaces South Cheshire CIC applied for £970 to buy wild flower bulbs and were successful. With the money they bought 500 each of bluebells, wood anemone, wild daffodil

snowdrops, wild garlic and snakes head fritillaries. These were planted in Nantwich Riverside with help from Weaver Primary School, Pear Tree Primary School, Millfields Primary School and St Anne's Catholic Primary School, all in Nantwich, together with the Millfields (7th South West Cheshire) Scouts and Cubs.

Weaver Primary School were the first group to plant wild flower bulbs - 500 bluebells. The pupils are pictured with four members of staff and Jeff Stubbs (second left) who is Chairman of Greenspaces South Cheshire CIC.

All pictures were supplied by Doug Butterill, Company Secretary of Greenspaces South Cheshire CIC, who went with the pupils to the chosen part of the Riverside for the bulb planting.

The then Mayor of Nantwich, Cllr Penny Butterill, is pictured with pupils of St Anne's Catholic Primary School who planted snakes head fritillaries. Members of staff from Baker Wynne and Wilson hold a banner proclaiming the awards made to the community

Members of Millfields Scouts and Cubs group all set to plant their snowdrops and wild daffodil bulbs. The image includes Assistant Cub Scout Leader, Cheryl Hamlyn (right, with spade) and Jeff Stubbs (Chairman of Greenspaces South Cheshire CIC, centre).

Pupils of Millfields Primary

School with the wood

anemones they planted.

Alderman Doug Butterill also helped pupils to put up bird boxes in the school grounds. Click here to visit that page

and here to see a school financed by the Rotary Club of Nantwich for more planting

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