Corporate Responsibility Project

22 SEP 2008
Leonard Cheshire Home facelift with Cameroon McKenna

In partnership with Across the Divide's CSR Projects team headed up by CSR Director Ian McLaughlin, almost 70 members of CMS Cameroon McKenna worked on re-landscaping the driveway and garden.

The John Masefield Cheshire Home sits within some splendid grounds of mature trees and gardens overlooking the banks of the River Thames and it an ongoing challenge for the centre gardener to keep ahead of the work created.

Across the Divide identified the centre as being a suitable partner for CMS Cameron McKenna and drew up the plans for three major projects that the team could achieve in the time available. Amongst the tasks achieved by CMS Cameron McKenna team was clearing the main entrance of overhanging foliage, planting flowering bulbs and demarking the roadway with clear markers to help provide a psychological barrier for centre users, plus they built a sensory garden for use by the residents and constructed two vegetable planters.

Superb weather saw us through an amazingly productive day both in terms of what was achieved on the ground but also in terms of team spirit and commitment to the project

A little history

The John Masefield Cheshire Home is built on the site of the home of the poet John Masefield whose house burnt down and family donated the land to Leonard Cheshire. John Edward Masefield, (1 June 1878 - 12 May 1967) was an English poet and writer, and Poet Laureate from 1930 until his death in 1967. Perhaps the most famous Masefield quotation is from "Sea-Fever":

"All I ask is a tall ship, and a star to steer her by."

Besides being used in many other written works, this quotation was also referenced in the film Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. Though not directly stated to be so, it hearkens back to a conversation between Kirk and Dr. McCoy in the original Star Trek series episode "The Ultimate Computer". The scene in Star Trek V opens with Kirk quoting Masefield, and McCoy incorrectly stating that it was a quote by Melville. This precipitates a rather amusing argument between "Bones" and Spock, who correctly identifies the author. Source: Wikipedia





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