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 […]
Welcome to our New Rewilding Officer
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 […]
Funding Success!
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 […]
Growing Together Packs now out in the Community
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 […]
Growing Together Bags Coming Soon!
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 […]