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Boston Manor Park receives essential renovations Friends
BOSTON Manor Park’s path and nature trail has undergone much needed renovations thanks to help from Brentford based business Rudridge. Voluntary group Friends of Boston Manor, who help maintain Boston Manor Park, received free materials and equipment from Rudridge as the winners of the civil engineering and groundworks specialist’s Community Fund campaign, which sought to assist a local charity, school or community group. The donation from Rudridge included drain pipes and aggregate.
Friends of Boston Manor are a voluntary group of people who work to raise the standard of Boston Manor Park and House for the benefit of the local community. Their activities range from organising voluntary projects to maintaining the Boston Manor Tennis Club, running the Pavilion Café and facilitating projects for the Youth Offending Service and Probation Service. Linda Massey, who heads the Friends of Boston Manor volunteers, said: “Rudridge helped bring our vision to fruition. Together we have created a safe route through the park which is of great benefit to park users. They have been wonderful people to deal with and we cannot thank them enough for giving us the opportunity to work with them.” Anthony Betteridge, Branch Manager at Rudridge Brentford,
commented: “We are delighted that we have been able to help the Friends of Boston Manor complete their project and hope that the community will continue to enjoy the park for years to come.”
Image credit: Friends of Boston Manor Finished pathway
For more information visit
www.rudridge.co.uk www.facebook.com/Rudridge Twitter: @Rudridge
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THIEVES FLEE THE “VOICE OF GOD”! New campaign to fit alarms to roofs of remaining Oxfordshire churches at risk of lead theft
OXFORDSHIRE’S iconic churches are being targeted by thieves. Since the middle of the year twenty villages have woken to find that lead has been ripped off the roof of their church by organised criminal gangs.
The lead is not worth enormous sums to the gangs but modern technology has made it easy for them to target vulnerable churches – and the damage they do can be massive.
Devastated local
communities are now facing months or years of fundraising for repairs, which may well be as much as £100,000 per church. The lovely churches at Bampton, Ewelme, Kirtlington and Great Tew are just a few of those which have suffered.
Many churches have fitted roof alarms. These are an effective deterrent. St Kenelm’s Church at Enstone was attacked recently but it has an alarm. The thieves set off sirens, strobe lighting and a very loud pre-recorded “Voice of God” telling them that the authorities had been informed and that they should leave at once. They did so! Background OHCT was established in 1964. It gives some £200,000 a year in grants to Oxfordshire churches and chapels of all Christian
denominations to assist with essential
repairs (including increasingly following lead theft) and the installation of facilities to make the buildings more usable for community activities. It is often the first funder of such projects and acts as a catalyst encouraging other support.
The result of a typical attack. The lead has been rolled up and thrown down to the ground leaving the structure and contents of this Oxfordshire church protected only by bare boards.
For more information visit the website at
www.ohct.org.uk or telephone 01608 81165. 8
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