Volunteers organised by Community Service Volunteers, supervised by committee members, with materials from Forest Recycling Project, made improvements to the site. Here are photos of the morning's work. See the afternoon's photos here

A team of 45 office workers from central London came to the site on Friday 10 July and worked enthusiastically  to make improvements by rebuilding the communal compost bunkers and redecorating the community shed and building three raised beds for disabled gardeners.

Committee members supervised and did preparatory work – Peter Aiano, Imogen Radford, Peter Moore and Eric Als, and and gardeners helped on the day and lent their tools and wheelbarrows. The Forest Recycling Project helped with free recycled paint and with delivery of the scaffolding boards donated by local scaffolding firm, Fourways Plant Ltd (020 8884 3339) and the London Borough of Waltham Forest provided other materials.

We also had a first aid box available, donated by Spartan Safety Limited.

Community Service Volunteers organised the visit by the volunteers, and helped in sourcing materials, checking the health and safety and other aspects of the project, and made it happen. CSV bring together teams of employees in a wide range of companies and organisations with community groups to get much-needed work done. 

The work done on the visit has made a real difference to our allotment site. We already have beds lined up for one of gardeners who had to give up because of difficulties gardening in the traditional way. We are looking forward to using the newly decorated community shed for our next children’s activity, and the improved bunkers are already keeping the compost material tidier.

Contact the Forest Recycling Project in Walthamstow: 020 8539 3856 Monday to Thursday 10-4, or This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it for scaffolding boards for a small sum, free paint, and lots more.