A total of 40 people took part in a local synagogue’s interfaith gardening project, which put this year’s theme of ‘Stronger Together’ into action.
Participants at the event on Sunday, October 27, included members of Stanmore & Canons Park Synagogue, Mosaic Liberal Synagogue, Kenton Swaminarayan Hindu Temple, St William of York Roman Catholic Church, Harrow Interfaith and the Friends of Canons Park, as well as Bob Blackman CBE MP and councillors Ameet Jogia MBE and Kanti Rabadia.
The volunteers’ jobs included weeding, raking, sweeping, clearing and tidying the overgrown flowerbeds in the walled rose garden, to get everything ready for the winter months.
The event was held ahead of Mitzvah Day, which takes place on Sunday, November 24, and brings together more than 55,000 people around the world to make a difference to their local communities.
Bob Blackman CBE, MP for Harrow East, praised the impact the event had on the local area.
He said: “Mitzvah Day is brilliant because it brings the whole community together to do things they may not usually be doing. Today, we had a whole group of volunteers, from many different backgrounds, unite to make this garden look beautiful.”
Project co-ordinator Corinne Linskell, of Stanmore & Canons Park Synagogue, said: “This interfaith gardening project was a special way to kick off our Mitzvah Day activities. With so many faith groups working together on behalf of the local community, we were much ’Stronger Together’, achieving what we could not do on our own.”
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