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Article: Garden task transforms young lives in Wellingborough.
- Article from:
- Northants Evening Telegraph (Kettering, England)
- Article date:
- May 7, 2008
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A team of young offenders built a sensory garden at a special school in memory of children who have passed away.
A team of eight, aged between 13 and 17, created a garden at Rowan Gate School in Wellingborough.
They worked in the garden once or twice a week for two months, as well as attending workshops on behaviour and empathy, as part of the reparation work they do after being convicted.
Darren Carson, reparation co-ordinator with the Northamptonshire Youth Offending Team, said: "The garden was totally overgrown when we first started so the first job was to cut back a lot of weeds and grass.
"We created a pond and planted a tree and ...