Selco helps allotment become top of the crops

Our Leicester branch has helped green-fingered residents improve their mental health by supporting a local charity’s new allotment project.

Communities Food and Wellbeing Hub (CFWH) supports more than 5,000 residents from diverse backgrounds across Loughborough and Leicester each year, through a variety of schemes for people of school age right through to senior citizens.

Our Leicester branch, based on Parker Drive, has provided support to the charity through donations of concrete ballast and cement to help develop an allotment project where residents will plant fruit and vegetables using raised planting beds, while also helping disability access to the site.

Dr Annette Durant, chief executive of CFWH, said: “We are hugely grateful to Selco for their support in helping us to get our allotment project up and running.

“The aim of our charity is to help the increasing number of people who are battling stress and anxiety and to try and address the reasons through a number of different schemes.

“We run hubs for food, health and wellbeing support for individuals, provide school holiday hunger family packages, facilitate health and wellbeing sessions with doctors and many other different services.

“The idea around the allotment project is to encourage people to leave their home, socialise with others and have all the benefits of being in the open air and a friendly environment. We really think it will make a huge difference to the lives of people, especially those feeling isolated.”

The Hilltop Allotment Society plots being utilised for the project are based on Headland Road.

Daniel Grainger, deputy branch manager at Selco Leicester, said: “Communities Food and Wellbeing Hub does wonderful work in the local area, supporting people from a range of different backgrounds through difficult times.

“We're delighted to be backing a project which will make a tangible difference to people’s lives.”