Local presentation and communication company the drpgroup completed another of its 30 Corporate Social Responsibility projects for 2010 last Friday (9 April) by planting 30 cherry trees at an old Bewdley orchard.

The Hartlebury-based company, celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, has committed to complete 30 CSR projects as a way of returning the support that the local area has shown to the group as it has grown throughout the past 30 years.

The trees were planted at the company's new meeting facility, which is set in five acres of its own traditional orchard in Bewdley. The facility and orchard have spectacular views across the 6,000 acre Wyre Forest and will be used by clients as a purpose-built meeting space and team-building centre.

"This particular challenge of the 30 we are undertaking this year is very close to my heart," said group managing director Dale Parmenter.

"As a teenager I used to help pick the cherries that grew here with my grandfather, so to be able to purchase the land now and help restore the orchard to its former glory is fantastic."

A total of 17 drpteam members spent Friday afternoon planting the 30 cherry trees. This project will see the site continually restored throughout the year with the produce grown on the land used in the drpgroup's Bewdley and Hartlebury facilities.