Pictured above: Pupils from Harvills Hawthorn and Millfields schools with some of their art, watched by Mansell site manager Paul Costello, Riverside's Lynda Cooke and Mansell tenant liaison officer Tracey Astbury

A special relationship between Riverside, Mansell and two West Bromwich primary schools has been cemented with a painting competition aimed at underlining the dangers of construction sites. 

As part of the Sandwell Pathfinder estate regeneration scheme, Riverside organised a series of art projects for youngsters at Harvills Hawthorn and Millfields Primary Schools, including working with Mansell to emphasise the dangers of playing on or around building sites.

Youngsters took photographs and wrote poems before creating drawings and paintings of Ivor Goodsite - the Considerate Constructors scheme mascot. Their artwork has been made into a series of permanent signs which are now displayed in a special outside gallery at the entrance to Mansell's site compound in Peters Street.

Mansell's Stourbridge-based regional Partnership Housing division is involved in a major housebuilding and improvement project as part of the Sandwell Pathfinder PFI scheme with Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council and Riverside. Both primary schools are local to the area where the work is taking place.