Go back to site

Press Release

Mission Accomplished on Space Age Coffee Bar

Volunteers transform local facility in Orton Goldhay, Peterborough

Immediate release: 10 February 2010

Volunteers from Peterborough-based BGL Group have worked their magic on the Goldhay Community Centre in Orton Goldhay, Peterborough, by landscaping its neglected gardens and transforming a former upstairs kitchen into a fantastic space-age theme coffee bar and chill-out room for the youth group which meets at the centre.

A team of 14 employees from the head office at Pegasus House, Orton Southgate, and the IT headquarters at Park House, Lynch Wood, pitched in for the day-long project as part of the Business in the Community Cares programme.

As well as the man-power, BGL Group also donated £250 towards painting materials and plants for the gardens surrounding the busy community centre.

The project was organised by Julie Ainley and involved colleagues Michael Davison, Zofia Dudzinska, Tanya Cooper, Sarah Melton-Prentice, Carol Robinson, Sarabjit Khangura, Sarah Latter, Anthony Tatum, Sarah Ashby, Rachel Long, Tom Bingham, Avril Lill and Irene Cunningham.

Centre Manager Sally Forster said: "Many thanks to the team for achieving so much in one day and with such enthusiasm! We have had lots of appreciative comments from the committee, youngsters, neighbours and users of the centre. We are really grateful to them – they really were worn out afterwards. The support they gave will have a huge impact on the community that use the centre and we can't thank them enough."

Goldhay Community Centre aims to provide a meeting place for local people and the wider community of Peterborough. It organises activities, runs groups and encourages the running of events to support family life and people of all ages and abilities. They hold a Mums and Tots group, an Over 55's coffee morning and lunch club and a youth group.

GARDENING TEAM: The volunteers pause for a photo-call to take a break from their busy gardening mission at the centre.

DURING: Volunteers Carol Robinson and Sarabjit Khangura get to grips with the replanting scheme on the newly-landscaped area around the Goldhay Community Centre.

AFTER: Volunteers inside the new Space-age theme Coffee Bar, seated, from left, Sarabjit Khangura, Carol Robinson, Zofia Dudzinska, Sarah Latter, Mike Davison, and back row, from left, Tanya Cooper, Rachel Long, Sarah Ashby, Irene Cunningham and Centre Manager Sally Forster.