The team at QDTS Construction donated their time and resources to build a Nature Area for Leicestershire based Croft Church of England primary school.
The project saw local companies come together to help bring the vision to life. The Nature Area includes a pond, decking and a sand pit with a beach hut for the children to enjoy. Green Power Plant provided use of their machinery at no cost, Aggregate Industries donated granite stones and BB Fencing contributed the materials at a discounted rate.
One local resident, Brian Dignall, after hosting his 80th birthday party at the school, decided that he wanted to support the cause personally by asking friends and family to donate to the school for his birthday present. These donations have been able to provide plants for the area. Brian has said that: “I think they deserve it. I’m very happy with it I think it’s brilliant, really lovely.”
Managing Director of QDTS Construction, Terry Benson, has spoken out about why he wanted to help: “Building companies have so much waste materials and so much knowledge, that it was nice get the team involved in this project. Everyone seemed to have the same vision, so we just cracked on with it. Schools never have budgets, so to put a pond here and let the children learn about wildlife was ideal really.”
When Terry came along to the school for the official opening of the pond he said: “It was great to see all the kids today and once the pond starts maturing and gets wildlife in there, it will blow them away. You need to have something at school that interests the children into coming.”
Trudie Colotto, the Head Teacher at Croft has said: “The pond area is an amazing and beautiful learning resource for the children to use, I think it adds something that was missing for science for us. The children will be able to go pond dipping, look at wildlife, life-cycles and learn about green issues.
When talking about QDTS Trudie went on to say: “Initially I had a vision for a pond, QDTS came along and bought into our vision for the children and what the area could be. They took this vision even further, they worked so hard all weekend and I’ve never known a company be as generous and proactive. Schools don’t have any money, so the fact they came in and supplied everything was great.”
More information about QDTS Construction can be found here: https://www.qdtsconstruction.com/