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By NaomiTroy A team of more than 50 volunteers from energy company E.ON have taken part in a challenge to revamp the recreational area at Colwick Woods, Nottingham.

With the support of park rangers and the Friends of Colwick Wood group, employees from E.ON's Marketing Team donated a total of over 370 man-hours to clearing overgrown paths and woodland and creating new paths to allow better access for park users.

Speaking about the project, Edmund Hopkins, Honorary Secretary for Friends of Colwick Woods, said: "We're extremely grateful to all of the volunteers from E.ON for the tremendous work they undertook on the day. They have transformed ‘Mile Run' which was becoming very overgrown and hardly recognisable from the historic photographs."

Emma Johnson, Planning Manager at E.ON and project leader for the team on the day, said: "Organising the day has been great and it's been really rewarding to spend time out supporting our local community. Our team managed to do more than we'd been asked or expected to do, and we even managed to create a cobbled path within the grounds, which gave us all a great sense of achievement at the end of the day."

This project was organised as part of E.ON's support for its local communities and in association with Business in the Community.

For more information about E.ON, please visit http://www.eonenergy.com/

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Notes to editors:

• E.ON is one of the UK's leading power and gas companies - generating electricity, retailing power and gas, developing gas storage and undertaking gas and oil exploration and production. It is part of the E.ON group, one of the world's largest investor-owned power and gas companies. E.ON employs around 12,000 people in the UK and more than 72,000 worldwide;


• In the UK, E.ON supplies power and gas to around five million domestic, small and medium-sized enterprise and industrial customers. E.ON also offers innovative energy services and technologies tailored to meet its customers' needs, and is helping customers become energy efficient by encouraging them to insulate their homes, moderate their energy usage and even generate their own power;


• E.ON has been voted Britain's best energy supplier for the second year running in the uSwitch.com Customer Satisfaction Awards. The independent report and awards are published annually and are based on a YouGov poll of over 5,000 energy customers;


• Business in the Community stands for responsible business. With a membership of over 850 companies, engagement in 10,700 organisations internationally and an employee reach of 14.7 million, Business in the Community is raising the benchmark for responsible business practice. We offer our members practical support to help them transform their businesses and integrate responsible practices into their operations. And we ask our members to work in partnership with us to help transform communities and tackle serious social issues where business can make a real difference. Business in the Community is one of the Prince's Charities, a group of not-for-profit organisations of which The Prince of Wales is President. www.bitc.org.uk

For more information contact:

Naomi Troy on 02476 180523 or naomi.troy@eon-uk.com

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