Apex Dumfries U Turn Group Volunteers have continued to work in partnership with Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) since the summer of 2011.

Apex Dumfries U Turn Group Volunteers have recently completed an outside children’s classroom in the grounds of Allanton House World Peace Sanctuary to protect the young forest craft students from the elements.

SHAX, a furniture recycling and redistribution charity, has been established to ensure that no families in Nithsdale, Stewartry, Annandale and Eskdale have to move into a new tenancy without the basic household items required to create a home.

Completed as part of the Skills component of their Duke of Edinburgh Bronze Award, the young men undertook research into the cost and practical aspects of securing a license, applied to the Holywood Trust for funding and used this money to apply for their provisional licenses and to pay for their written and practical tests.