Community Gardening for Wellbeing - £5000

A local community gardening project in St John’s Green Community Garden, North Woolwich and surrounding green areas 

 We will run 3 sessions each week. 

1 weekly adult gardening sessions on a Wednesday for 2 hours 

2 weekly children’s gardening sessions, including offering activities through the North Woolwich Library and local after school clubs 

Adult sessions will include watering, sowing, planting, growing, weeding, mowing/ strumming, building raised beds, litter picking and learning how to maintain green spaces. This will provide health benefits improving mental health and after stroke care

Children’s sessions will include children learning to grow and harvest seeds, plants, fruit, herbs and vegetables as well enjoying nature and environment art sessions and bug hunting to learn more about local biodiversity. 

We will organise foraging and preparing fruit eg. jam bottling fruit and veg

Using raised growing beds throughout the area, we would like to provide growing space for locals to grow edible gardens - eg a “soup” box, a “salad” box, a “ herb” box - where residents can walk past and simply pick and take home - we will collect with the children to make healthy snacks

This would meet the following priorities: 

1. Cleaner environment
2. Inclusive and Improved outdoor spaces
3. Community safety

Project Photos Sept - December 2021