L to R: Chris Smith (Challinors), Tamara Bolger (Head of Fundraising, Focus Birmingham),  Charlotte Wetton (Challinors' Training Officer) and Richard Shaw, (an Associate in Challinors' Personal Injury department), digging to revitalise Focus Birmingham's garden at its Elizabeth Gunn Centre on Woodville Road in Harborne.

Staff from Midlands law firm Challinors donned wellies and gardening gloves and swapped PCs and mobiles for spades and secateurs to give the garden at the Harborne day centre of local charity Focus Birmingham a makeover.

Representatives of Challinors' Charity Committee, Richard Shaw, an Associate in the Personal Injury department, Chris Smith, and the firms' Training Officer Charlotte Wetton spent a day revitalising Focus Birmingham's garden at its Elizabeth Gunn Centre on Woodville Road in Harborne.

Tamara Bolger, Head of Fundraising for Focus Birmingham explained: "The charity, based in Harborne, supports children and adults who have visual impairments and other disabilities in order to allow them to lead a more fulfilling and independent life, by offering facilities including the day centre in Harborne, two residential homes and teams of Rehabilitation and Community workers.

"The gardens at our Elizabeth Gunn Centre provide an invaluable outdoor space for all our service users. Our team of staff and volunteers do its best to keep on top of maintaining the garden areas, but time doesn't always make this possible. We were therefore especially pleased when Challinors team offered to spend a day tidying the garden and planting some of the areas to make the most of the space for our service users."

She adds: "We are delighted and grateful that Challinors has continued to support Focus Birmingham once again this year, the second consecutive year. The firm's staff have not only volunteered their time to help us practically in this way, but have also worked hard to raise as much money as possible through fundraising quiz nights, a punk night and even running marathons!"

Sarah Corser, an Associate in Challinors' Clinical Negligence team and a member of the Charity Committee explains: "Challinors' Charity Committee involves Partners, fee earners and support staff. We appreciate that fundraising for Focus Birmingham is vital to it continuing to provide their amazing support and services for the city's visually impaired, but that sometimes it is time and practical help that is in order, which is what led us to suggest this garden makeover."

Focus Birmingham's services are currently used by more than 3000 individuals each month and are reaching out to support an estimated 30,000 visually impaired in Birmingham. "We warmly welcome other local companies to get involved and raise much needed funds for the charity, and have fun at the same time!" says Tamara.