GREEN-fingered young people dug deep to help renovate gardens at a Dudley community centre.

Eight students from City of Wolverhampton College, who are taking part in a 12 week Prince’s Trust self development programme, spent a fortnight transforming the grounds at Wrens Nest Community Centre.

They created raised beds for the centre's gardening club Seed and Feed, assembled a shed and designed and created a memorial area.

The group raised the cash needed for the project by bag packing at Asda Brierley Hill, holding a cake sale and taking part in a sponsored overnight event.

Team leader, Hayley Brooks, said: “The team have worked very hard on raising money for their project especially to complete tasks on their overnight sponsored escape and evasion event where they had storm Barney against them.

"This saw them doing two river crossings, marking nine check points and returning back to cook around a camp fire.”

The Prince’s Trust Team programme gives unemployed young people aged 16 to 25 the chance to learn new skills and improve their confidence and self-esteem through a range of outdoor activities, community work and work experience.

During the programme the young people take part in an action-packed residential week, organise fundraising activities, carry out voluntary work in the community and benefit from two weeks’ work experience with a local employer.