Sheepfold Road’s Superb Fund-raising Sunflowers

Published on: 15 Aug, 2019
Updated on: 20 Aug, 2019

Residents in Sheepfold Road, Guildford, have come together growing sunflowers and raising money for charity.

Sheepfold Road residents have been busy growing sunflowers and raising money for Shooting Star Children’s Hospices.

With the flowers now blooming nicely it was time on Tuesday evening (August 13) to present a healthy £1.050 to Shooting Star Children’s Hospices, the charity the residents have chosen.

The idea to grow sunflowers as a competition this summer came about at a new year’s get together some of them attended. The road, off Worplesdon Road in Stoughton / Rydes Hill, has four Neighbourhood Watch co-ordinators and they got the scheme going.

A fine crop of sunflowers.

Resident Angie Bates sowed around 250 sunflower seeds, of different varieties, in her greenhouse, and residents the took the young plants and grew them on. The money was raised by them and others making donations.

With about 100 households in Sheepfold Road, nearly everyone responded and grew some sunflowers.

Every sunflower counts in Sheepfold Road.

Shooting Star Children’s Hospices’ community fundraiser Ellie Bennett came along to meet the residents and see their sunflowers.

She said: “We are so grateful to them all for their hard work growing the sunflowers and raising the money. With gift aid added on top it will be more than £1,050, and each year we need to raise £10 million.”