Tickets are £6 in advance (see website for details) or £8 on the door but hurry as the SweetBeats always sell out when they play at the NAC! Funds raised at this event will pay for next year’s governance including public liability insurance.
To sum up our intentions we hope to improve community cohesion and resilience by working together to create and maintain a beautiful green space for all to enjoy. We hope to provide food for the community using some rather non traditional agro-forestry principles, and to incorporate bee keeping and therefore flowering plants to attract bees and other insects for the local bird population. Other ideas are a sensory/ aromatic area for the blind and partially sighted, full disabled access including raised beds, a small orchard, natural play for children and a pedal-powered fountain. Groups can apply to take responsibility for an area or raised bed.
We eventually hope to add some historic information about this site and use it as an educational resource (both historical and environmental) for local schools and children’s groups. In short we aim to create a peaceful place for recreation, gardening, skill sharing, water collection and composting.
Grapes Hill Community Garden Group is calling for local volunteers, from all backgrounds and age groups to help with this rewarding project by offering materials, tools, time and labour. Ideally we need some sponsorship from local businesses or individuals within Norwich to pay the £800 fees to a landscape architect to get this project going. This is now crucial. Please let us know that you may be interested in helping us via contact@grapeshillcommunitygarden.org
Our next meeting is on Wednesday 26th August at the Belvedere Community Centre on Belvoir Street from 6.30 – 7.30 pm. We are looking for more people to volunteer to join our small committee or to just turn up to find out more.
© Fran Ellington 2009
For more information email:
contact@grapeshillcommunitygarden.orgOr phone Fran Ellington on 07729 540 482.
