Rivar Sponsors Resource Centre Sensory Garden

Earlier in the summer, our Newbury depot was contacted by West Berkshire's Council Hungerford Resource Centre with a dilemma and question of whether we could help. Their dilemma was getting sponsorship for their sensory garden project.

They felt a bit cheeky for asking for as much as they could possibly have but Rivar Sand and Gravel Landscape Centres have always prided ourselves on being a part of the local community so we naturally were happy to help.

If you don't know much about the Hungerford Resource Centre, they offer invaluable help for adults with learning disabilities, physical disabilities and those with frailty and dementia. It's a great centre that we were more than happy to help with supplies.

Rivar Sand and Gravel Landscape Centres sponsored the Resource Centre with some Top Soil, Cotswold Chippings, Purbeck Rockery and a Black Limestone Water Feature.

These materials combined with further effort from other local companies and community members pitching in during the project meant the garden was transformed from a relatively blank canvas into a fantastic sensory garden which will offer a great deal of benefits to the centre's users.

After a long few weeks, the garden was finally unveiled on August 10th with a BBQ to celebrate the opening. The Resource Centre were nice enough to feature our sponsorship in the local news and newsletters and send over the pictures of the finished garden. This project showed that the community of Berkshire can really pull together to do something nice for those in need, kind of like DIY SOS.