COMEDIAN Rhod Gilbert will present DIY SOS: The Big Build, when it heads to Hull for a BBC Children in Need Special in September
Rhod will join the BBC programme's team of Mark, Chris, Jules and Billy, alongside playground engineer John O'Driscoll and local tradesmen and volunteers.
They will embark on a build that will improve the physical and emotional health and wellbeing of children and young people in Hull and the surrounding areas.
Rhod said: "It's a great honour to step in to Nick's enormous steel toe-capped boots and be involved in Children in Need.
"I'm looking forward to joining the infamous DIY SOS team, and rallying an enormous group of local volunteers on a wonderfully ambitious and important project.
"After having tried my hand at over 30 jobs on my Work Experience TV programme, I'm hoping I may even be of some use around the site.
"My vis is high and my hat is hard, so bring it on."
The team will create:
- A field kitchen to teach cooking and to cook
- A landscaped campfire
- A pizza oven
- An exterior covered classroom
- A circular mountain bike course, duel-skill level about one kilometre
- A bird watching tower
- A low walk rope
- An adventure playground
- A toilet/shower block ( maybe from donated containers)
- A storage unit for 20 tents / 20 bikes
DIY SOS charitable builds are hugely ambitious and rely on the generosity of trade volunteers and company donations and so is appealing for landscapers, gardeners and tradespeople to offer support with the transformation in September.
The team would be immensely grateful for the following donations: timber, aggregates, steel containers, septic tank or treatment plant, solar panels, wind turbines, mountain bikes, tents, rope, outdoor furniture, play equipment and internal fit out of shower block and field kitchen.
Those interested in volunteering as a professional trade or donating product to this ambitious charitable build should email diysoshull@bbc.co.uk
There will be a Trades Day on Tuesday, August 17, those interested in attending must email the address above before attending.
The two-week build will take place from Wednesday 8 – Thursday September 16 2021. The programme will be broadcast in November 2021.
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