To celebrate the 500th Seeding Sustainable Communities project survey we decided to give the participant a Green Makeover for her home.

Mrs Thurley from Welland was in for a grand surprise when we sprung upon her the news of her Green Makeover!

I set about finding donations for the makeover and was pleasantly surprised by the number of willing supporters I found amongst the good traders of Peterborough. So on a windy Friday afternoon Patrick and I set off to install all of the fantastic green goodies we had procured.

The green makeover included:

• A water butt donated by Anglian Water

• Two mega rider’s donated by Stagecoach

• A kitchen caddy & weigh and save bags donated by Lakeland

• A large green veg box donated by Riverford Organic Vegetables (based at Sacrewell Farm)

• A compost bin donated by Peterborough City Council

• An eco cleaning voucher donated by Green Clean (an eco friendly cleaning company)

• Bike lights from Robinson’s bike shop Cowgate

• A big bag of products from Lush

And all these other wonderful goodies donated by PECT:

• Seeds

• Get a green grip bag

• Smart meter

• Eco-driving lesson

• Thermometer

• Tyre pressure reader

• Light bulbs

• TV power down

• PC power down

The makeover was a great success, we had a fantastic time! Mrs Thurley was really pleased with her green goodies as were her two daughters. Nyree had arranged for a photographer from the Evening Telegraph to be there so we all felt like superstars, it was brilliant fun posing for the photos but once again its Patrick & Mrs Thurley who have the best pic of the day...






The Seeding Sustainable Communities project has been made possible by Anglian Water.