THE half-mile pathway created on a bleak moor shows what can be done when different organisations come together to make a difference.

A legacy by dedicated moor volunteer Barbara Armstrong helped pay for the stone flags and many of them were laid by young offenders.

It’s often easy to knock community sentences but this project shows the hard graft that has been put into it to help protect the environment and give people access to some stunning moorland on the National Trust’s Marsden Moor estate at Black Moss.

Anyone who walks will soon realise this was no easy option and it would be good to see the Probation Service revealing more of the projects where community work has made a difference.