Mullingar Shamrocks were delighted to welcome a squad of 14 volunteers from the Aviva Pensions and Investment division to Springfield on Wednesday last. Every Aviva employee is entitled to 21 hours of paid volunteer leave annually to support charities and charitable causes in what is a wonderful scheme. The Springfield squad included Galway senior hurling midfielder Tiernan Killeen; Jacob and Elise Buckley joined us from The Downs for the day and the entire Ledwith family also rolled up the sleeves.
Over several hours the squad engaged in a major clean-up of our grounds particularly of the Walking Track which was transformed from the Astro Turf to the corner of our training pitch as can be seen in the attached photograph. Some weeding and painting was also carried out.
Have we volunteers to finish the cleaning of the track? The point was made that it would make a great bonding exercise for an adult football team?
We appreciate the work of Niamh Ledwith in organising the visit of her fellow Aviva volunteers and of Joan Ormsby in managing the logistics for the day.
And a sincere thanks to the Aviva Volunteers for their great work.
