ecoACTIVE Community Garden Network News!
Wishing you all a very Happy New Year and all the best for 2025! Hoping that the frosts will be good for our gardens. See below for news about how to join us on a trip to Kew Gardens, a funding opportunity from Grow Wild, and Traineeships at Growing Communities. Read our latest Newsletter for news and seasonal tips from your Network. We would be really grateful if you could complete our Survey to let us know more about what you have been doing and what you'd like to see happen next.
Survey
For our latest survey please follow this link: CLICK HERE (please feel free to forward this to anyone else that volunteers at your community garden)
Read our latest newsletter for the latest news, tips and recipes from the Network
Grow Wild at Kew funding opportunity - Deadline 13th February
£2000 available to community groups to transform an urban space with UK native plants or fungi, encourage wildlife and involve the local community, connect with other groups and receive support by taking part in knowledge sharing sessions and talks. Please see the following link for more information: https://growwild.kew.org/apply-grant/community-programme
Join one of our visits to Kew Gardens
We will be organising some free visits to Kew gardens for volunteers at gardens in our Network and the Hackney Buzzline. Would you and/or other volunteers at your site be interested in attending a visit? We can be relatively flexible with dates, and can arrange a date that works for you/your group.
Seasonal Training
We will be running one or more Winter pruning sessions before the beginning of March with the first taking place on Saturday 22nd February at Clapton Park Estate (10.30 am- 1.30 pm TBC). Please let us know if you would like to attend and we will send you more details. Other training sessions will be available shortly. Let us know if you would like to request or offer any training!
Traineeships at Growing Communities sites in Hackney and Dagenham (deadline: 3rd February).
Do you want to develop your food-growing skills or do you know someone else who'd like to? Growing Communities is recruiting this year's crop of four urban growing trainees. Learn all about growing vegetables - especially salad leaves - at their urban market gardens in Hackney and their small farm in Dagenham. The free training takes up one day a week, plus some evening tutorials. Runs from early March until the end of October. Deadline: Monday 3 February.
More info about the job and how to apply here: https://www.growingcommunities.org/jobs
Call for garden news, photos, tips and more!
In our next Newsletter we would love to include your news, photos (with permission), events, seasonal tips and recipes and anything else you would like to share with other volunteers and gardens in the network. Please do get in touch!
What would you like from your Network?
At the Community Garden Project we are currently planning a programme of events for this year for gardens in the Network. What would you like to see happening this year?
What support do you most need at your community garden?
What training would be most useful for volunteers?
Could your garden host an event in 2025 or beyond?
