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A NEW community garden is being built in Corporation Park, Blackburn, with the aim of creating an accessible outdoor space and reducing levels of anti-social behaviour. The garden is being built with the help of volunteers, members of the Corporation Park Supporters Group and Abilities Enterprise, a charity that supports children and young people with autism. The garden is being built on an old bowling green which has been donated by the Corporation Park Bowling Club. Supporters Group chairman Nicola Beswick said: “We have been looking for ways to improve the park, making little improvements all over the place to try and bring it up to modern-day standards in terms of what people are interested in.
Nicola Beswick had her career mapped out. After completing a masters of science in genetics she combined her background with a strong interest in law to forge a path in intellectual property law in New Zealand.
When her father was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis at age 55, however, Beswick was exposed to the benefits of financial planning.
“That’s essentially the reason I got into financial advice,” she tells
Professional Planner. “Fortunately Dad had an income protection policy, so when everything happened it made me realise the importance financial planners have in peoples’ lives.”
She says she felt “selfish” considering a career move amidst the trauma of her father’s illness, but eventually realised that moving to advice would put her in a position to help others who, like her father, would benefit from sound planning,