Crawley College students team up with a charity to create memorial bench
Carpentry students at Crawley College have created a lasting legacy at Ifield Watermill in honour of a special volunteer.
Last month, the college was honoured to be approached by members of the Ifield Watermill to complete carving on the back of a bench in memory of Ted Henbery, a volunteer who worked at the mill and recently passed away.
His daughter has since kindly donated £100 by way of sponsoring a student award for Carpentry & Joinery department.
Jordan Keevash, who is currently studying bench joinery, stepped up to complete the work on the memorial bench putting his skills and keen eye into practice.Trustee Peter Temple-Smithson and Zuzana Peppett, who is also a volunteer at Ifield Watermill Charity, visited the college to collect the project from Jordan.
Trevor Francis, lecturer at Crawley College, said: “The team were very pleased with Jordan’s work and invited our students to go and look at the mill, which has a fantastic timber structure very relevant to their learning.
“Jordan worked really well and to a high standard in completing the carved lettering which was created using a CAD – CAM manufacturing process on a CNC router.”