MEMORIES are being kept alive at a Warrington primary school with a National Lottery-funded community memorial garden.
The garden at Evelyn Street Primary was made possible through a £10,000 grant from the National Lottery Community Fund.
It includes an artificial grass area and produce garden and was created by Jacqueline Breeze, a learning mentor at the school, and school business manager Emma Leigh, working with contractors.
The garden will be a place for pupils and members of the local community to enjoy, contains trees with plaques commemorating the lives of members of the community and Evelyn Street Primary School. It includes a plaque dedicated to pupil Cameron Mathieson, who sadly died aged five in 2012 after a long battle with cystic fibrosis and Duchenne’s muscular dystrophy.
Warrington Primary Academy Trust’s maintenance officer Ste Rowley, who died in March, is also commemorated in the garden.
The garden has already been used for community and school events, including warm space evenings during the winter, and Sankey Bridge Community Centre will be using it for their over-60s sit down aerobics sessions.
Ms Breeze said: “The garden is a wonderful space for reflection for the children, parents and the wider community and we are delighted that it has come to fruition after months of hard work and planning. We hope it will be a well-used and well-loved area for the school and the wider community in the years to come.”
Evelyn Street Primary is one of eight primary schools that make up Warrington Primary Academy Trust (WPAT), a community of more than 2,300 children aged 2-11.
Picture: Holding a cheque for the National Lottery funding, awarded last summer, are Cameron Mathieson’s brother Guy and Louise Smith, chief executive of Warrington Primary Academy Trust.
