BUSINESSES are being encouraged to support a project to create work for people with special needs.

Marion Parker, chairman of the Federation of Small Businesses for north and west Wiltshire, is backing the £250,000 Hope Nature Centre at Southwick Country Park.

Mrs Parker, who owns Wishing Well Agency and Wishing Well Gowns in Melksham, said: "My company will sponsor a wishing well where visitors can stop, make a wish and help us make a dream come true. We need a mighty army of willing helpers to raise the necessary funds for construction to begin.

Contact the project on (01225) 769343.