DUCHY College, Rosewarne part of the Cornwall College group is looking for volunteers with an enthusiasm for landscaping and horticulture to help give a garden make-over with a difference.

The college has recently updated its Animal Care and Agricultural provision and built to fantastic new buildings.

The new developments have increased the size of landscaped area across the site that needs to be maintained. This has created a challenge for the groundsman and horticultural staff.

The college is asking for keen local gardeners or landscapers of all abilities to give up a little of their free time and join a brand new volunteering scheme that enables volunteers to work with horticultural staff to change this blank canvas into a green space that students and staff can enjoy and be proud of. In return the college would like to provide volunteers with the equipment and the relevant qualifications and training in horticulture to do the work.

Bill Herring, curriculum manager for horticulture, said: "We are very proud of our horticultural site here at Rosewarne and work hard to maintain its beauty. The new developments onsite mean that our landscaped area has increased. This gives us an exciting challenge for staff and students to manage and we would love to give members of the community who wish to increase their horticultural skills the opportunity to help transform it."