Liverpool school pupils have been busy making bird tables for a very special cause

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00:00 Care home residents from Liverpool have been treated to afternoon tea at Sefton Park Palm

00:04 House before they were presented with specially made bird tables from a local school.

00:08 The students that were heavily involved in it really did enjoy being able to design and

00:14 to make it and to know the wider impact of the actual products.

00:18 Fifty elderly people from ten local residential care homes were invited to spend a couple

00:23 of hours at the Grade 2 listed Victorian Glass House.

00:26 As well as enjoying sandwiches and cakes, the care home residents were given the bird

00:30 tables which have been made by design and technology students from the Academy of St

00:33 Nicholas in Garston.

00:34 They look fabulous. I was talking to a couple of the kids and they were saying someone in

00:41 the school did them. But you know what, they're lovely. And they're lovely kids as well. We've

00:46 been having a chatty with them as well. But yeah, can't wait for them to get it.

00:50 It'll look nice in our garden. It'll be a big garden. Because they love that. Our residents

00:54 love having the garden and they love pottering around.

00:57 The Academy successfully applied to be part of the project when Head of Design and Technology

01:01 Katie Bell saw the opportunity on social media.

01:04 This is far beyond what I'd ever expect when I filled in our application. So it is just,

01:10 I think we can go above and beyond actually. And the next is going to be really exciting

01:14 to be involved.

01:15 The tables were donated alongside a wooden gift box which the Academy also created and

01:20 were filled with an RSPB bird book, bird food and wildflower seeds.

01:25 The National Lottery funding has been immense. So it was £232,000 and it's been over two

01:31 years and it's just brought so much value to the Palm House. So we now have events like

01:38 this, school visits, we have new signage, we have an interpretation in front of all

01:45 of our statues, we've got new signs in the park. The difference it's made is really tangible.

01:51 The National Lottery Heritage Funds help support projects of all sizes that connect people

01:55 and communities to the UK's heritage.

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