DIY SOS MANCHESTER

We recently read about the BBC DIY SOS team would be taking on a massive project to help rehouse army veterans and their families. The Manchester Evening New and other media sites were reaching out to local tradesmen and women to go down and donate their time and skills to help complete the project.

It was one of if not the biggest challenge DIY SOS had undertaken since they have been doing the show across the UK, restorating a whole street of houses for these wonderful people.

As we carried on reading and unable to offer our skills at painting, plumbing etc we did on the other hand have an Ice Cream Van available so we thought why not go down to the building site in Manchester and hand out 99’s to all the volunteers their helping out.

Mr Whippy Ice Cream

So we arrived shortly after the two princes had left who had turned up to help around the site for a few hours and gave it so great media coverage this project deserved. As we arrived the looks we started to get off everyone was wonderful as they had a incline on to why we were their.

We spoke to an organiser and he escorted us to the cafe area where the local army had helped out to supply the needs and demand of food to keep everyone fueled for the days they were their.

As we parked up and played the chimes we suddenly had an influx of excited adults running towards us to see what was happening, as the word got out that we would be giving away 99’s it quickly became one of the biggest ques we have seen.

All the volunteers couldn’t have been more polite thanking us for doing it and offering our only expertise we could and moral support to them all.

All in all this Manchester project is wonderful and it was great to see all the locals getting involved to help finish this awesome project.

More Info on the project visit here

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