Known for providing adventurous activities and leadership opportunities to younger people within the community, Samford Scout Group continues to inspire by creating a world-first, Scouts Better World Garden, with stage one enabled by a Community Bank Samford grant.
“The funding grant received from Community Bank Samford was much appreciated and vital to allow us to proceed with our ambitious project,” Group Leader David Reed said.
The regeneration endeavour promotes engaging the local community to create a better world for all.
The Scouts Better World Garden includes an activity area with table seating, a wide variety of native plants and information on how everyone in the community can contribute to improving sustainability goals.
Table sets are painted to match the different colours of Scout sections, and an imposing 12-metre flagpole centres the space.
“Our project has been very well received by the local community with many comments received praising the transformation of a central village open site into a wonderful activity space that will benefit the community for many years to come,” David said.
The Scout’s Better World Garden incorporates a rainwater harvesting system to improve the area’s environmental sustainability footprint and serve future overall site needs.
A winding pathway through the mulched native-plant garden will welcome the wider community to use the space as a place of education and relaxation.
The Scout Movement has a strong commitment towards “creating a better world” encouraging Scouts to take inspired action towards community involvement and advancing ecological practices.
As an active and dynamic arm of the movement, David said Samford Scout Group is extremely grateful for external funding support to further its ambitious conservation projects.
“As a volunteer group and part of the largest youth organisation in the world, our continued success in giving young people skills for life needs financial support to realise our future goals. Hence, we are very thankful to the Community Bank Samford for supporting us and their community so well.”
