Paragon volunteer for youth homelessness charity

Volunteers from Paragon Bank based in Solihull have recently volunteered at St Basils ' Yardley House.

Finance staff at Paragon supported the youth homeless charity by tidying the communal garden area. This included sanding and painting garden furniture, cutting back overgrown foliage, weeding and replanting garden beds as well as jet washing the patio area.

The team of nine employees from Group Finance volunteered to spend the day at Yardley House and between them completed all the work to a very high standard.

The team had previously been working from home since the start of the pandemic and this was the first day that they had been able to work together, face-to-face, since then. It was a fabulous team building exercise where they were able to share gardening tips, while being able to talk socially and support each other with the tasks.

Julia Brady, manager of Yardley House, said: “We would all like to say how grateful we are to the team for coming out to do our communal garden. All the young people commented afterwards about how lovely it looked. Everyone worked so hard and are always welcome back ”.