Miracle worker

How can I ever thank Phil, and M J Builders for doing this work? It is such a massive step for us in creating gardens for the Veterans and for us to run our occupational therapy programmes from. A heartfelt thank you.

A nearly blank canvas.....

A massive thank you to Phil the miracle worker on the digger - what a day's work and on a Bank Holiday.... thank you so much....

Now we only have to get rid of the pig pen, remove that interior fence, build a bund, paths, fencing.... but oh the joy of seeing soil!! Thank you guys.

The gardens......

At last..... and thanks to the massive perseverance of Gill Taylor, Viki Bayes, Andy Scholes, with the assistance of Yorkshire Coast Homes, and Jewsons (how can we ever, ever thank you enough) the work has started on the gardens at Stepney Hill Farm. And just in case he thought I had forgotten, none of this would have been possible without Ashley Tyson whose willingness combined with Gill's vision this is. A picture conveys more than one thousand words, so here they are.... the bottom garden before the digger gets to work........

Scraping the bottom garden:

The top paddock before work starts with the digger......

What a difference!

We are open for business

What a great day! We have opened our first FirstLight charity shop in Scarborough, at 63 Newborough on one of the main roads down to the front. Tra and Terry Kennedy have just about worked all the hours that are possible to work in the last few weeks to get us up and running. And what a fantastic day we had; we had the mayor elect and his wife to open the shop; Yorkshire Coast radio running pieces in the news and The Scarborough taking pictures... and we had a fantastic day with a packed shop .