Hospice to benefit from Wick community payback team's miniature houses
Ornamental wooden houses made by the Wick community payback team are to go on sale in the town's Highland Hospice shop in the new year.
The miniature homes have been constructed in the workshop at Highland Council’s community payback department at Wick Airport Industrial Estate. All proceeds from their sale will go to the Inverness-based hospice.
Steve MacDonald, community payback officer at the Criminal Justice Service, said: “Clients who have been given a community payback order by Wick Sheriff Court with an unpaid work requirement are effectively sentenced to give something back to the community that they have offended against.
"Throughout the year we have carried out numerous outdoor projects across Caithness. However, during times of inclement weather, we are more restricted to our workshop where we encourage clients to be creative and to learn new skills which benefit both themselves and the community.
"Our community payback supervisor Bob Miller has been instructing clients on designing and constructing the houses which will hopefully raise money for a very worthy charity.”