Food company volunteers helping Camphill The Bridge

A group of people from O'Brien Fine Foods helped out at Camphill The Bridge last Thursday, tidying up the outdoor spaces and painting outdoor furniture, writes Brian Byrne. They were doing a corporate volunteer day at the community, and will be on a similar day at Camphill Dunshane on 18 May.

Initially up to 15 people were to be involved, but a large order coming in for the company trimmed the volunteer force down for last week. Last October, a group from the company carried out major work on the Bridge nature trail in advance of it being reopened to the public on 1 November, after a long closure due to the pandemic. 

Paul Henry, social enterprise manager with the national Camphill organisation, said the work of the volunteers has been a 'fantastic' help in getting the nature trail back in action. "The trail has been busy," he told the Diary. "Any time you go there, there are people walking." 

Pictured are Alan Coleman, Nick Reynolds, Niall Coogan, and Jolyta Rusekietie. Based in Timahoe, O'Brien Fine Foods is a family run company specialising in producing and marketing high-end meat brands which include Brady Family Ham, Green Farm turkey and ham, Homebird poultry, and Bearfields cooked ham and gammon.

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