Staff from Watford-based lottery operator Camelot ‘Thrive’ on gardening project (From Watford Observer)

Staff from Watford-based lottery operator Camelot ‘Thrive’ on gardening project

10:10am Tuesday 9th March 2010 in

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Employees from National Lottery operator Camelot in Watford have completed voluntary work at Thrive’s Trunkwell Garden Project at Beech Hill, near Reading.

Thrive is a small national charity that uses gardening to help disabled people.

Like thousands of other organisations, Thrive is a recipient of Good Causes money raised through the sale of National Lottery tickets – with the charity using the money to fund its national programme for the blind and partially-sighted.

To date, the National Lottery has helped to raise more than £23 billion for Good Causes the length and breadth of the UK.

At the team-building day, Camelot staff were divided into five groups to carry out a variety of tasks alongside Thrive’s disabled gardeners.

These included thinning out overgrown iris plants around the pond, digging out unwanted ground-elder (a weed that invades the pond) and starting an indicative planting programme to support the great crested newts that populate the pond, which is a conservation area.

Susan Tabor, Thrive’s Trunkwell Garden Project Manager, said: “We were delighted with the work Camelot and Waitrose’s employees did for us, and are really grateful for their support and help.”

Harvey Miller, Customer Development Executive at Camelot, said: “We were delighted to come along to help a great charity like Thrive and make a real difference to the disabled people who Thrive help. I know I speak for all of my colleagues when I say how much we really enjoyed meeting the people we were there to help.”