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Growing Together 2021 comes to an end!

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Growing Together 2021 has wrapped up for this year, with 1,000 growing packs going out to Hyndburn residents across the borough!

With packs dropped off at schools, community groups and places of worship the project has reached a broad range of people across Hyndburn.

Feedback has been great with lots of great photographs which can be view on the project webpage: https://prospectsfoundation.org.uk/growing-together/growing-together-2021/

Growing Together 2021 Project Officer Gareth Muir will be delivering the Rewilding project for remainder of the year. To get in touch email him at gareth.muir@prospectsfoundation.org.uk

GT 2021 Packs Children Smiling

Welcome to our New Rewilding Officer

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Meet Gareth Muir, our new Rewilding Officer. Gareth comes to us from TCV in Leeds and has a wealth of experience working with local communities on food growing and other conservation projects.

Gareth will initially be concentrating on setting up our ‘Growing Together 2021’ programme whereby we’ll be sending out home food growing packs to Hyndburn residents. You may remember last year’s Growing Together initiative was a partnership project involving many local partners including PROSPECTS, Hyndburn Borough Council, Idle Women, the Hyndburn Hub and others and involved lots and lots of volunteer support. GT 2020 proved very popular, with over 600 people taking part and we’re happy to say that we’ve managed to obtain funding to run it again in 2021.

Gareth is already busy sorting out the pack contents, ordering seeds, putting together publicity and growing instructions and making contacts etc ready for distribution by the end of February! You may have already seen posts on our social media pages advertising the new programme .

So, if you would like to pre-book your growing pack, please contact Gareth at gareth.muir@prospectsfoundation.org.uk

Please e-mail leaving your name, address (for delivery), contact number and e-mail so we can get in touch.

    

The post is funded by the Hyndburn Windfall Fund and the National Lottery Community Fund through their Covid-19 Community Led Organisations Recovery Scheme, which is being administered by Power to Change

Funding Success!

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Great news!

Announced today – Monday 23rd November 2020 – we’re one of 300+ community organisations to secure a CCLORS grant. It’ll help us provide vital support to our local community, particularly those most impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic.

We’re planning to use the grant to develop our Growing Together initiative that we ran during the first lockdown. We are aiming to put together many, many more salad and veg grow packs to give out to communities, schools and organisations to help get people growing together! We are also going to translate the growing instructions into a number of other languages, such as Urdu, Gujarati, Arabic and Polish to help reduce the barriers to participation in this initiative. We will also be developing other related activities including recipe ideas, photo competitions, improving gardening skills, advice on how to build raised beds and how to re-use everyday items as growing containers.

We are currently recruiting for another member of staff to carry out this project so watch this space and get in touch if you are interested in taking part.

CCLORS is the Covid-19 Community-Led Organisations Recovery Scheme. It is being delivered by Power to Change, Locality, Social Investment Business and the Ubele Initiative in partnership with The National Lottery Community Fund

     

 

Growing Together Packs now out in the Community

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As of today, over 70 Growing Together sowing packs have been distributed by volunteers from the Hyndburn Hub to people requesting them from Prospects.  This is in addition to the hundreds that have also been delivered through Growing Together partners St. Christopher’s School and Idle Women.

Anyone living in Hyndburn (as they are being delivered via the Hyndburn Hub) can request either a Windowsill Pack or a Gardener’s / Allotment Pack.  Each pack consists of a bag (to be decorated) plus seeds, pots, compost and growing instructions.

The aim of Growing Together is for people to be able to grow some healthy vegetables for themselves in this difficult period, whilst also hopefully learning new skills, including your children and generally having a bit of fun!

There’s still time to take part.  If you would like a pack then please e-mail info@prospectsfoundation.org.uk and let us know:

  • Which pack do you want? (Windowsill Pack or a Gardener’s Pack)
  • Your Name
  • A contact telephone number
  • Address (Hyndburn only please)

All packs are being kindly delivered by volunteers from the Hyndburn Hub.

Click HERE for details of the what seeds are in each pack.

Growing Together Bags Coming Soon!

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Our Growing Together Project is almost ready to distribute bags containing everything you need to grow greens and salads on your windowsills and in your gardens. Volunteers including those from St Christopher’s High School, the Hyndburn Hub, Woody and Idle Women have been busy preparing and packing up seeds, compost, pots and bags. If you or anyone you know would like a pack containing a selection of seeds including Cress, Peas, Rainbow radish, Coriander, Mint and more then drop us an email to info@prospectsfoundation.org.uk with your name and ‘phone number and we will contact you about safe delivery. So what are you waiting for, come on everybody, let’s get GROWING!

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