12:00pm Tuesday 24th August 2010
By Mike Pryce
BANKING staff have swapped their pens and computers for paint brushes and rollers to decorate a parents and babies room at a children’s centre in Malvern.
Members of the Royal Bank of Scotland’s group resourcing team were challenged to transform a room at the recently opened Evergreen Children’s Centre in Malvern Link into a place that parents and new babies can use.
With this in mind, the 15-strong team, which is based throughout Britain, divided various decorating and cleaning tasks between themselves and completely decorated the room in one day.
In addition to giving up their time to do the decorating, the RBS team has raised more than £500 for Barnardo’s, the charity which cares for vulnerable children and young people.
Dawn Hathaway, who took part in the RBS community challenge day at the Evergreen Children’s Centre, said: “My colleagues and I are very much aware of the great work Barnardo’s do throughout the UK and we wanted to do something to help.
“When we heard about the work the Evergreen Children’s Centre needed, we jumped at the chance to have both a fun team-building day and to help the charity.
“It was a lot of hard work, but the room looks great, and I know it will make a real difference to the parents who rely on the centre.”
The Evergreen Children’s Centre moved to 215 Worcester Road, Malvern Link, earlier this year after using offices at the town’s Prospect View Medical Centre in Pickersleigh Road.
The Evergreen Centre provides free activities, advice and information to parents with a child under five and parents-to-be, baby massage courses, dads groups, sing and sign sessions and access to health and education information and counselling support.
Although the centre now has its own premises, the set-up is still reliant on help from volunteers, such as the team from RBS, to make a difference.
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