Sun is shining and the garden is growing!

2013 has been a difficult year to secure funding for our Community Garden project and after several applications, a short term grant came through, allowing us to continue to this years growing season!

Anita O'Flynn, one of our Volunteer Garden Coordinators, is one of the lucky winners this year to receive The World of Difference UK programme funding. The programme gives 500 people the chance to work for a UK charity of their choice and get paid!

Thanks to this funding Anita has been able to set up an all day drop-in session for Women and Children on Wednesdays as well as free gardening sessions on Thursdays with small groups of vulnerable adults from Rethink, Second Step and others.

Awaz Utaoh (South Asian women’s group) has also joined them on Wednesdays and they have been showing us how to make a tandoori oven aand cook from it, which is very exciting and is going to be a great resource for their community garden.

To read more about the garden and Anita's work, visit her blog:

http://worldofdifference.vodafone.co.uk/blogs/anita-o-flynn2012/