Caring duo help to brighten up Mossley community garden

Hard-working volunteers have brushed up on their painting skills by lending a hand to a community garden project.

The Reporter recently ran a story on how the Friends of Egmont Street Playing Fields had transformed a patch of land in Bottom Mossley into a community garden. The story included pictures of a visit by local MP Jonathan Reynolds.

When Dominic Darraugh and Wayne Broadbent saw the pictures in the paper they spotted that the cabins near the garden were covered in graffiti. The caring duo then decided to repaint the cabins to brighten up the area.

Lesley Arnold, from the Friends of Egmont Street, said: “Dominic and Wayne are members of our group. They are the proprietors of Dab Property, they recently resprayed all my kitchen units for me!

Wayne Broadbent and Dominic Darraugh ready for action.

“They are going to be sponsoring one of the Mossley Juniors teams next year. Juniors have one of the cabins, we have some of our gear in the other.

“They saw the pictures that were published of the MP visit and said it was such a shame that all you could see in the background was the graffiti-covered cabins and the area where our notice board used to be.

“They got in touch and offered to come and respray the cabins professionally.

“They arrived at 7am and worked all through the sweltering heat and they have absolutely gone to town on these cabins. They have been cleaned down, had all the rust sanded off and then sprayed with two coats of paint. They even came down and colour-matched the paint to our fence.

“These men aren’t getting a penny for this and have taken a day off to do it when they could have been earning money. They have essentially lost money doing this job for us.

“The cabins look absolutely amazing. They are true community heroes.”

The official opening of the vegetable plot at the garden was undertaken by Jonathan Reynolds before he was given a tour of the community initiative.

The friends’ group was set up to work together as a community and to make the  area a better place to live.

After tackling vandalism, anti-social behaviour, graffiti and litter at the site in Bottom Mossley, the group set about creating wildlife, fruit and vegetable plots.

The friends also make jams and chutneys from the produce grown and sell these to raise funds for the garden.

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