Looking for the prettiest garden
Radio personality, Derrich Gardner, will select Newcastle's most lovely garden for an attractive prize.
Solidarity Helping Hand is challenging Newcastle residents to beautify their sidewalks and gardens and in so doing, qualify for an attractive prize.
‘We believe beautiful sidewalk gardens contribute towards improving a neighbourhood and that it will encourage other residents to also beautify their gardens,’ says Hennie van Niekerk, chairman of Helping Hand’s branch in Newcastle. ‘It is a lovely and fairly effortless way to canvass support for the Newcastle Community Bursary Fund.’
The bursary fund is managed by Helping Hand’s Afrikaanse Beursinstituut and will be used in aid of a local young person.
‘We really want to create an opportunity for a young person to study further and to start a successful career so he or she would not depend on others,’ Mr van Niekerk says.
Any resident can enter a garden, whether it is their own or someone else’s, which is beautifying the neighbourhood. In January 2014, three sidewalk gardens will be selected as finalists in the competition.
A panel of garden experts, including well-known radio personality, Derrich Gardner, will judge the nominated gardens. Attractive garden containers and other garden tools are at stake.
Entry is R50 per garden and entries must be submitted to Helping Hand by September 30. For more information, contact Lorette Botha on 082 745 3546 or Hennie van Niekerk on 084 465 5466.
