Volunteers wanted for flood salvage work

VOLUNTEERS are needed to help salvage a flooded children’s holiday site in Wales owned by the Oldham Children’s Holiday Homes charity.

Heavy rain over Christmas and Boxing Day damaged two chalets at Caernarfon. Since its formation in 1974, the project has given holidays to over 3,000 Oldham children who otherwise wouldn’t have had one.

Project organiser Janet Cook is appealing for volunteers to help rip out carpets and damaged furniture, and to allow the drying out process to begin.

She said: “There may be children, now adults, who benefited from holidays in Caernarfon, who would like to give back by assisting. If anyone has access to a minibus we can all travel together, otherwise, volunteers will need transport to get to North Wales.”

If you can help, contact: janet.cook@zen.co.uk

The charity was founded in 1974 by the late borough alderman and councillor Ellen Brierley, who as the first mayor of the newly-created Oldham Metropolitan Borough raised money for chalets to give some of the borough’s poorest children the chance of their first holiday and to see the sea for the first time.