Not being an expert gardener by any stretch of the imagination, I was relieved with the success of my first environmental community project last week. As the project manager, I organised for the management team from Chirk (the cocoa processing site in North Wales were I am based for my first placement) to spend a day at a nearby junior school undertaking a range of gardening, building and decorating work. Though the day was bitterly cold, the team's hard work resulted in an interior makeover and a transformation of an underused, overgrown garden into a tidy, manageable garden, with which the school was delighted.
When I applied to Cadbury Schweppes last year, the strong tradition of community involvement was an attraction. It was therefore good to experience in practice the encouragement from the business and support from my colleagues on this project.
Part of the week was also spent working on information and ideas for my technical project, which I gathered from my visit to the Cadbury Trebor Bassett factory in Dublin the week before. My project covers process optimisation, and includes development and justification of new equipment installation. The site tour of the Dublin factory was one of the highlights, with the Cadbury Flake production line being a 'must see' in my opinion!
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