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keep ?t to a toddler group and bingo. “I grew up around here and there really wasn’t a lot for people to do,” admits Debbie, who has been at the helm for six years.
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group of volunteers have transformed a Pinner community centre by planting hundreds of ?owers, in a bid to improve the area they are living in. Led by chairperson of the Pinner Hill Community Centre Debbie Stears, the 22-strong group made up of children as young as ten up to adults in their 60s came together last month to bring some colour to their communal hub. Having been given 300 bedding plants by Harrow Council and with additional donations from local garden centres, the team were able to inject new life into the Pinner Hill Road centre which hosts many weekly activities from
A team of voLuNTeers has worked hard to plant ?owers in Pinner Hill Community Centre their own community. People worked so hard to do this.” Yet she remains positive. “Crime around here is dropping and we are really starting to show people how much there is for them now. When I was growing up it was rough on the estate but it isn’t like that anymore and people’s impression is often wrong. There is a lot going on and the atmosphere is better.”
“But now people here really do want to make a di?erence and I see people communicating more with everybody. It was lovely to see residents work together like this.” However only a week after the ?owers were planted the four large hanging baskets were stolen. “I am absolutely gutted. It is just mindless vandalism,” concedes Debbie. “There is no value in them to anyone and they have stolen from
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