A £1,200 grant to enhance Wansford village has been awarded to the Skerne and Wansford Parish Council by Nafferton Feoffees.
The money will go towards a scheme which includes the creation of flowerbeds and the placing of tubs at the entrances to the village.
The project has been drawn up by parish councillors Lynn Stockwell and Ian Lamble and has been sanctioned by the East Riding of Yorkshire Council highways department.
Each of the planters has been designed to need minimum maintenance. However, volunteers are needed to assist with care and watering.
Lynn said: “We are pleased to say that some people have already come forward with offers to help with the care of the beds and planters but we really need a dozen more. We will also need a lot of help to dig out the beds and lay the sleepers to start with,” she added.
Details about when the work will start will be announced on the village notice board.
Anyone willing and able to help or have any heavy duty tools that might help telephone Lynn on 232025 or talk to any parish councillor.
Proposals include raised flowerbeds (using railway sleepers) at the village signs on Driffield and Nafferton roads; a bed edged with rockery stone at the North Frodingham approach; a small flowerbed, also edged with rockery stone, under the Chapel Lane road sign; improvements to the bus shelter flowerbed; sedum troughs at the roundabout and by the telephone box; ‘window boxes’ to hang along the railings by the new bus stop near Skerne bridge.