Chelmsford West Children’s Centre is given a Great Green Boost to its Great Green Garden

Following on from 4Children’s successful takeover, Chelmsford West Children’s Centre was given a recent boost when the centre’s coordinator, Sophie Beckwith arranged for staff, volunteers and the Essex landscaping company, Naio Environmental Ltd to give their time and resources into transforming the centre’s overgrown garden into an inspirational outside space for parents, carers and children to explore and learn in a healthy and safe environment.

As part of this, a vegetable patch has been developed for children to enjoy and learn how to plant vegetables which they can then have as snacks in the Children’s Centre group sessions or they can take them home with recipe cards supplied by the children’s centre.

The newly developed grassed area will also enable ‘Stay & Play’ sessions for them to move outside and be given the opportunity to benefit from free and unstructured play outdoors that will allow them to explore, enjoy and learn from imaginative and creative play.

Commenting upon the work, 4Children's volunteer coordinator, Wendy Tayler said:

As half of pre-school age children do not  play outside each day, the benefits of this work are invaluable for increasing physical activity, enhancing imaginative and creative play, promoting problem solving skills, increasing the body’s vitamin D levels and developing stronger immune systems.

As a result, all of us at the Centre are immensely grateful for the hard work put in by the volunteers and NAIO Environmental LTD.”

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