en.Wedoany.com Reported - Morgan Sindall, a contractor for National Highways, has completed the restoration and renovation of allotment gardens at Kingsthorpe Park in Northampton as part of the social value commitments attached to the essential A14 maintenance scheme at Kelmarsh. After completing main works including vegetation clearance, updating and replacing damaged sections, and installing drainage ditches, the team used leftover project materials and four days to leave this meaningful legacy for the community.
The charity benefiting from this project is the McCarthy-Dixon Foundation, which serves vulnerable groups in the local area facing complex needs such as physical challenges and chronic anxiety. The allotment plot was previously tended by John Macken, a former client of the foundation. After his death, his family wished to transfer the plot to the charity, but it had fallen into disrepair and required extensive work to be restored as a healing space. The Morgan Sindall team collaborated with Patrick Peter, a volunteer gardener for the charity, using donated scaffold boards to build low perimeter fencing, constructing and widening a new gate to improve access, and helping to build a metal-framed tunnel polytunnel. The team also donated surplus topsoil and aggregate from the project and provided a rotavator to improve the soil.
Chloe Levine, Project Manager at National Highways, stated that the team had the skills, tools, and spare time, and it was right to use them to benefit those in genuine need. Teresa McCarthy-Dixon MBE, Founder and Operations Manager of the McCarthy-Dixon Foundation, said the volunteers' efforts exceeded expectations and that the space created would transform the lives of many people facing complex needs. National Highways is committed to delivering social value in every one of its projects, aiming to have a positive and lasting impact on the areas where it operates by supporting communities, creating local legacies, and encouraging self-sufficiency.
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