School garden makeover supported by Bromsgrove MP

Dotted Eyes staff rose to the challenge when tasked to create a new and exciting garden area for the children at a school in Bromsgrove.

Each year the company donates a day to work on a project in the local community and last Friday 20^th May, 30 members of Dotted Eyes’ staff visited Charford 1^st School with gardening tools at the ready.

Taking an unused and overgrown area of the school’s grounds, the challenge was to transform it into an attractive garden, complete with giant chessboard for the children, in just one day.  Among the finishing touches created were new benches, flower beds, a pathway and lawn area.

Bromsgrove’s MP, Sajid Javid visited the site to see the progress being made and show support for this community driven project.

Ben Allan, Managing Director of Dotted Eyes stated, “With funding cuts taking effect throughout the public sector, it was unlikely that this school would have had the opportunity to carry out this work themselves.  We are delighted to be able to offer our help in this way.”

The project also relied on the kind support of businesses such as building supplier, Travis Perkins who helped with the provision of materials for the chessboard and pathways, and local nursery Singleton’s who donated plants for the new flower beds.

Head teacher Anita McLaren stated, “We are all very excited about the new garden which gives the children an opportunity to learn about chess in a new and fun way.  It is also shows them how well communities can work together.”

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About Dotted Eyes

With a long heritage as innovators of mapping data and information solutions for private and public sector organisations, Dotted Eyes has pioneered location-based intelligence products and services for more than 20 years.

Serving customers from across a variety of sectors including healthcare, local government, not-for-profit and commercial enterprises; Dotted Eyes mantra is to simplify, automate and integrate data and information to enable better informed decision making at every level of business operations. Equipped with Dotted Eyes’ tools, users are able to access, visualise, analyse and share complex spatial data in a simple, user friendly way.

Dotted Eyes maintains long standing expert partnerships with location data providers such as Ordnance Survey and Pitney Bowes Business Insight; is the Platinum Partner for Safe Software in the UK and operates certified training courses nationwide.  The company serves some 130 UK Primary Care Trusts, every ambulance service in England and Wales and not-for-profit organisations like the National Trust, among others.