Case study - Growing up
Nabarro has a major presence in Sheffield where it is very much part of the local community. Carl Dray, Sheffield-based partner, explains how the firm is putting something back“We’ve been members of the Whirlow Hall Farm Trust’s 480 club for a year or so now. What that means is that we make a financial contribution which enables 12 children from poor backgrounds or difficult family circumstances to spend the weekend at the farm. For many of them it is their only opportunity each year to see something of the natural world.
“Now we’re building on that with a developing partnership with Wybourn Primary School. It’s in a tough part of Sheffield and not surprisingly educational attainments are well below national averages.
“We’re part of this city and we decided to do what we could to help. We knew that Whirlow Hall had a new initiative called Cultiv8 which aims to help kids understand a bit about where food comes from, how to grow it, and what constitutes a good diet. Children will visit the farm four times a year to plant their own produce, check its progress, harvest it and then sell it through the farm shop. There’s a lot of learning there.
“But the site where all this was to happen wasn’t in a fit state for the task. So Nabarro volunteers have cleared it, dug it, laid it all out and replaced the old polytunnel with a new one. We hope the result will be nourishing in every sense of the term!”
