Green-fingered pupils at a Bromley special needs school will be given the opportunity to grow their own garden.

Nash College, an independent specialist college pupils with learning disabilities, and Lower Roads Alloment have collaborated to help students get into gardening.

Storage container company, Mr Box, part of the Mobile Mini family, donated a 20ft container to provide safe and secure storage for the specialist tools and health and safety equipment required by the students with disabilities, in order for them to create and maintain an allotment garden.

Speaking about the donation, Lower Roads Allotment Secretary, Douglas Stoten, said: “Over the last two years, we have developed our site to be better equipped to receive visiting groups from the wider community, in the hope of encouraging people of all ages to visit the allotment and learn about vegetable cultivation.

“Having established a partnership with Nash College, we endeavoured to accommodate their needs for greater levels of community engagement by realising a Millennium Garden.

“As part of this project we needed to provide an on-site, lockable, shipping container for the exclusive storage of specialist, ergonomic gardening tools, health and safety equipment and consumables for use by the students and supervisory staff.

“We can’t thank Mr Box enough for providing us with a free container for six months, as it would not have been possible without their help.”

The company’s Community Involvement Programme offers free of charge storage container hire to non-profit or voluntary organisations. For a worthy cause, all its branches can donate up to ten containers each year, free of charge (hire not to exceed six months).

“Corporate Social Responsibility is integral to our business and we are firmly dedicated to supporting our community,” said Sarah Jones, manager at Mr Box.