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