Milk Bottle Mosaic Marks Recycling Week
Colleagues from Vodafone’s Legal Team indulged their creativity at Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee School on Thursday 26 September. Over the course of the day, 23 colleagues came along to lend a hand.
Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee School is part of the Westminster Federation of Special Schools. It is a school for children and young people aged 4 – 19 with severe learning difficulties. The school is lucky to have extensive grounds, offering its students a variety of spaces to safely learn and play.
The Vodafone volunteer day fell during Recycling Week – a campaign to celebrate recycling and encourage people to take action. In line with this message, the colleagues and school had spent the preceding weeks collecting plastic lids form bottles and jars; which a team of artistic volunteers, assisted by pupils, transformed into a colourful mosaic.
Another eye-catching addition to the school walls was the painstaking ‘colouring-in’ that the team completed on a pre-drawn mural. The simple line drawing has been transformed into detailed scenes, which the children can enjoy each time they pass along the main school corridor.
Despite downpours throughout the day, every opportunity was used to get outside and no time wasted building and filling two trugs with soil, loading a skip with garden rubbish and planting up raised beds around the school.
"I enjoyed the day a lot and the feeling of fulfilment and satisfaction from having contributed to the team's marvellous colourful creation is second to none. I am looking forward to our next volunteering activity already, and can’t wait to get cracking with the adult colouring book I ordered during one of the breaks from colouring that wall. A very positive day." Alex Zografos, Competiton Law Compliance Manager, Vodafone.
We’re keen to create more milk bottle murals at schools across Westminster, so if you can help co-ordinate a lid collection in your office, or even volunteer to help create a new plastic picture, do get in touch.
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