Spotlight
Penny Pinn
Every volunteer engaged in good work does so for the benefit of their community.
That good work can be for all sorts of different aspects of life in the community. One of our members is a shining example of all those virtues that Community Involvement possesses.
Penny Pinn, a Horsforth in Bloom member for many years has devoted herself as a volunteer, not only in this group, but many more and many of these are listed below.
Horsforth in Bloom
Friends of Hawksworth Wood (with Leeds Countryside Rangers)
Friends of Hunger Hills Woods
Cragg Hill and Woodside Residents Association
Clarence House (Clarence Road) gardening group with Hyde Park Source
Horsforth Climate Action Nature group, Food group and steering group
Walk of Art
Feed Leeds
Horsforth Town of Sanctuary
Leeds 2023
Penny is the first to volunteer to help and you can regularly see her around Horsforth litter picking to keep our town clean and tidy. She also works with other groups on knitting projects such as Horsforth post box toppers and the Walk of Art textile panel and has been awarded Horsforth’s Citizen of the Year.
We are very proud of her and thank her for all her many contributions to life in Horsforth.
Getting Together
We get together throughout the year but excluding the months of December and January -10 months in all.
We meet, as volunteers on Wednesdays between 1.30pm and 3.00pm with the location that has previously decided by the group on the previous Wednesday. For the moment, once that location has been decided, Peter Mallott, the chair of Horsforth in Bloom will send a group text message to all volunteers informing them of this location and time. Normally, if someone cannot attend that location, they will send a return text back.
In the event of impending inclement weather the volunteers will be notified that the volunteer session is postponed for another day, (normally the following week).
There are no time constraints in how long any volunteer can offer. It is purely voluntary.