A TEAM of volunteers from gas network company SGN rolled up their sleeves and got their hands dirty when they volunteered at Butser Ancient Farm.

The eight strong group, all from SGN’s Walton Park office in Portsmouth, split into two teams, each spending one day at the farm.

Ann Henderson, SGN operations control team manager, said: “I read an article in my local paper about some other people who had volunteered there and it sounded really interesting.

“Our normal day job involves sitting in the office at a computer, so this was a complete contrast.

“At one point I even found myself helping to round up a baby goat who had managed to escape from his pen.

“We felt a tremendous sense of achievement at the end of the two days as we’d managed to ‘daub’ the whole interior of the roundhouse.”

Trevor Creighton, projects co-ordinator at the farm, said: “The volunteers did a fantastic job and we were incredibly impressed by the quantity and quality of what they achieved in such a short time.

“It now means we can move the building on to the next phase and finish the outside soon – ready for the autumn term.”