Bus stop for the world cup.

Some time ago I mentioned how the residents of one community had made their local bus stop into a mini community center with flowers and a chair. This time the story somes from Unst the northern most of the Scottish Shetland Islands.

The locals have been decorating their bus stop for year and even put up fairy lights that are powered by a generator to make it a tourist attraction.

For the Millennium celebrations they provided Earl Grey tea and sandwiches.

Now the Stop has been given a make over to celebrate the World Cup.

By a series of gentle actions the local have made their bus stop a major tourist attaction with its own website, Facebook page and visitor’s book!

Eight year old transforms a park

Ryan Wells is an eight year old boy who was concerned about the state of his local part in Lee, South London. It was filled with litter, the paths were overgrown with weeds. It was also used by drug addicts land street drinkers who leeft their syringers and bottles. It was certainly not a place where Ryan and his friends would play since older youths prowled around the part with agressive dogs.

And so the eight year old boy borrowed his mother’s camera, shots documentary evidence of the state of the part and then wrote a letter to the Mayor in which he complained about the park and said “There are so many kinds around in the streets in my area on the pavement and in the road, some as young as five without their mum. I would like to give them somewhere to go”.

The result is that the Mayor has set asde £10,000 for a “general tidy up” and to improve the children’s play area.

But eight year old Ryan hasn’t stopped there. He is now applying for £50,000 grant from a lottery fund to build a BMX bike track in the park!