Now in its sixth year, Let's Go is in for another round of hard work throughout Horsham and the surrounding communities.

Volunteers from churches across the area will come together to transform classrooms, restore conservation areas in schools, paint playgrounds, install a kitchen and tidy gardens.

Neil Currie, Let's Go organiser, said: "I am always amazed at how God supplies exactly the right people and materials to not only get the jobs done but ensure they get finished to a high standard."

The Let's Go volunteers have worked tirelessly in the last five years and have put in over 11,000 hours of effort to complete over 50 projects in more than 20 different schools.

Let's Go has also completed more than 200 small jobs in people's homes through the Neighbourhood Help initiative and has cleared litter all around Horsham and Southwater.

Many of the community projects Let's Go has completed have directly influenced children's education, enabling teachers to use restored or new established conservation areas to teach children about the significance of our environment. It has helped schools reach the Eco-Schools status.

Sue Winn, head teacher at Southwater Infants School, commented: "Let's Go volunteers built wonderful vegetable gardens for each class in the school in 2006.  Over the past two years children have learnt about the importance of growing and harvesting food, composting and recycling rainwater. 

"They have sold produce from the gardens and used the funds raised to buy seeds to grow more produce the following year.  The vegetable gardens are a fantastic resource which form a central strand of our Eco-Schools work and help us teach through first hand experience the importance of conservation and sustainability."

The 'Horsham in Bloom' initiative has also been significantly impacted by 'Let's Go'.

'Let's Go' has made many schools and public places more attractive and environmentally friendly. Horsham in Bloom Chairman Christine Costin says "Co-operation between everyone is the key to making the community stronger and this showed in the town's win in Britain in Bloom. We are really proud of the Let's Go initiative and hope that everyone can go on working together to bring even more improvement over the coming years."

This year another 17 projects are already arranged for the week from May 12-16 and will be accompanied by many more Neighbourhood Help jobs.

'Let's Go' is not just about hard work. "Yes, our volunteers work hard, but they also play hard," says Neil. The 'Let's Go' week will be framed by two weekends filled with fun and action. On Saturday and Sunday May 10/11 we will host a massive family fun event on the recreation ground in the Needles estate.

Families can come and enjoy fun rides and food for free. The following weekend will be full of excitement too especially for fans and followers of motor sport. The 'Ultimate Car, Ultimate Life' show will be happening again. On Saturday May 17 visitors to the NRC in Foundry Lane will have the opportunity to admire expensive cars, learn more about them and hear what others have to say about the ultimate car and the ultimate life.

Then on Sunday May 18 Let's Go churches across the town will invite everyone interested to find out more about them by joining one of their services.

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