Hope Is Blooming
| Published: 15th April 2008 10:07 |
Hope Is Blooming
HINCKLEY'S Field of Hope, which was created last autumn when townspeople planted thousands of daffodil bulbs at Hinckley Cemetery, London Road has just come into bloom for the first time.
Local people of all ages, including children and young people from local schools and colleges, planted the bulbs after Marie Curie Cancer Care was given the opportunity to use land at the cemetery by the Borough Council.
Marie Curie Cancer Care Fields of Hope are green spaces planted with daffodils in memory of local people who have died from cancer and become a special place for people to remember those they have loved and lost.
Councillor Wendy Moore, the Borough Council's Executive member for Parks and Open Spaces, said: "The flowers are making a brilliant display despite having a covering of snow last weekend. The creation of the Field of Hope is part of our continuing commitment to enhancing the green spaces across the borough, but it wouldn't have been possible without the volunteers who helped to make this lovely display."
Marie Curie Area Fund-raising Manager, Marea Roberts, said: ‘I am so pleased that another Field of Hope has been planted in Hinckley, now the daffodils are in bloom the Field of Hope is a place of reflection and peace to many people who have been touched by cancer.I am so very grateful to the Borough Council for sponsoring the daffodil bulbs. The money raised from donations from local people will be used to fund our local Marie Curie nurses caring for people terminally ill with cancer and other illness in the comfortable and familiar surroundings of their own homes'
Thousands more bulbs are due be planted by volunteers this October to extend the Field of Hope and turn it into an even more spectacular memorial.
Courtesy of H & B BC
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