Corporate Photography - O2 It's Your Community

I was asked to go along to a local Community Centre here in Runcorn and photograph employees from O2 helping clear the overgrown gardens as part of O2's 'It's Your Community' scheme.

In various parts of the UK, O2 have been awarding cash grants to groups who come to them with a good idea for a community project. This time it was all hands on and lots of digging!

The Palacefields Estate contains over 650 homes. Their local community centre is being looked after by the Four Estates Ltd. Four Estates are a volunteer led community development company. Everyone is working very hard to put the centre at the heart of the community. Everyone is trying to ensure that they centre is a place for people to come together, join in all sorts of activities and gain access to a host of facilities. The centre already run activities ranging from martial arts and lunch clubs, to youth clubs and bingo - all ages are provisioned for.

But as a charity all their funding must be bid for and as priorities go – people are the most important thing. With all funding going into the activities, little to none is ever left over to look after the centre itself. This is where a group of O2 volunteers stepped in to offer their help via It's Your Community.

It actually stayed sunny the whole hour I was there and was lovely and warm. Although the O2 team were a bit too warm with all the digging, raking & pruning. The hard worked paid off though and already by lunch time the transformation was amazing!

Well done to you all, you certainly deserved a cold drink (alcoholic?!) and a nice bath to ease those aching muscles. Hope you're all feeling ok today!

Thanks for letting me photograph you all

Nic xx