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BBC News
3 days ago
- General
- BBC News
Chelsea Flower Show garden donated to Devon charity
A homelessness charity in Devon has been given a garden which featured at the Chelsea Flower was selected to have the Pathway Garden once the show had finished on 24 May and a team has begun to install it in garden was inspired by the work of UK-wide homelessness charity Pathway and was selected for two awards at the 2025 flower show. Shekinah CEO John Hamblin said he was "incredibly proud" the charity was chosen to have the garden. Built by Modular Garden Limited, the company said it was sustainably designed with the help of people who had experience of garden won the Silver Gilt medal and the Environmental Innovation Award at the show which took place between 20 and 24 May. The garden will form part of a permanent community space at Shekinah in Plymouth thanks to a grant from Project Giving Back, which supports charitable causes through gardens at the flower show. "We are incredibly proud to be part of this inspirational project," said Mr Hamblin. "The Chelsea Flower Show offers a national platform to raise awareness of homelessness and health and inequalities and celebrate the journeys of those rebuilding their lives and health with dignity and purpose."This partnership truly reflects what Shekinah is all about."
BBC News
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Chelsea show garden relocated to Bransholme community centre
A Chelsea Flower Show garden has been relocated to a community centre in Songbird Survival Garden won a silver gilt medal at the show and has been reconstructed with the help of volunteers at the Neighbourhood Network's centre on Goodhart Road, garden is part of a wider project at the site to overhaul the existing outdoor space for the local Carew, manager of the Neighbourhood Network said she hoped the project would "put Bransholme on the map". Listen to highlights from Hull and East Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, watch the latest episode of Look North or tell us about a story you think we should be covering here.
BBC News
26-05-2025
- General
- BBC News
Bristol: New scheme to 'bring back nature' to Barton Hill
A new community garden project is being launched to "bring back nature" to nature-deprived of the Earth and The Co-operative Bank are working on a joint project covering about 1,000 spaces across the UK, including in Barton Hill, Bristol. City residents are being invited to an afternoon picnic to mark the opening of Aiken Street Community Garden in Barton Hill on 22 May. Gardener Harriet Wylie said the aim of the project is to create "wonderful havens" that benefit both nature and the local community. The picnic, hosted by Wellspring Settlement, will kickstart Ms Wylie's new role as a 'Postcode Gardener'.As part of the scheme, she will oversee a two-year programme to increase biodiversity in the Barton Hill has already started work to create a community orchard with the help of a group of dedicated volunteers. Research from Friends of the Earth shows one in five people in England live in nature-deprived areas without access to green space - be it private gardens, public parks or open Wylie said: "Despite the challenges of the last few years, this is clearly a community with a lot of resilience, positivity and a desire to create a local area that people can take pride in." 'Happier world' Rianna Gargiulo, from Friends of the Earth, said Barton Hill was identified as one of the areas that would most benefit from this initiative said: "Making Bristol a little greener brings us one step closer to building the healthier, happier and more harmonious world we know to be possible."The community picnic launch event will be held from 16:30 to 18:00 BST on 22 May.
Yahoo
26-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Plot of land next to church being turned into community garden
An unused plot of land next to a Bury church is being spruced up and turned into a community garden. The site alongside St Joseph's Catholic Church in Peter Street has been given a new lease of life by a group from Project Free, a substance recovery charity. The clean-up team has been working at the site for four weeks, spending 12 hours there so far, cutting down the overgrown foliage to help create a welcoming community garden that is accessible to all. The site where the work has been carried out (Image: Supplied) The group has been meeting up at the land every Tuesday and their efforts have not gone unnoticed. Businesses including Fired Paint a Pot Cafe have donated funds to projects in the area, which will go towards making the area a fully-fledged social space, with seating areas and other facilities. Fired Paint a Pot owner Emma Lee said: 'Project Free has been transformational for the area around our café. 'Over the past 12 months we have had a lot of issues and I ended up closing my business for a short time last year. 'The fact that Bernard (founder of Project Free) and his team have put in so much effort and hard work to clear the overgrown piece of land has been amazing, and it has made such a massive difference to both my business and me personally.' Work being carried out at the site (Image: Supplied)READ NEXT > Primary school opens new library after £10k funding READ NEXT > Market stallholders appealing for help to support cause close to hearts Get the latest news delivered straight to your inbox by signing up to the Bury Times morning newsletter as well as our breaking news alerts Plans are also in place for a large mural to be painted on the brickwork with help from a fellow recovery organisation, The Arc. Project Free is a lived experience recovery organisation that helps adults who have suffered from substance-related issues recover. It is a peer-supported service that focuses on recovery for men aged over 25 in the Greater Manchester area. Bernard Shaw, founder of Project Free, spoke about his pride in the Bury project. He said: 'The impact it's having on the community is really touching. 'It's been a great project, everyone is really enjoying being a part of it. 'Each person has been putting their own bit in and doing their part- it's all about the result at the end.' Project Free is entirely volunteer-led and is supported financially by a number of different organisations, including the council and The Calico Group. Tom Woodcock, director of partnerships and collaboration at The Calico Group, said: 'It was a jungle and now it's all tidy. 'There has been a somewhat 'intimidating' atmosphere in the area over the past few years – it's great to see it being cleaned up so it can start to be a community space again.' Since its launch in 2023, Project Free has partnered up with an abundance of recovery organisations, such as Acorn Recovery Projects, Gateway Floating Support and Action Together.
Yahoo
24-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
NYC yanks license for anti-Israel Queens community garden that forced members to side with ‘marginalized' Palestinians
The city has yanked the license of a woke community garden in Queens that forced members to take a pledge in 'solidarity with the oppressed and marginalized people' of Palestine — but the 'radicals' behind the space are defiantly vowing to resist the order. The Parks Department revoked the license May 5, eight months after The Post first reported about the Sunset Community Garden, on Onderdonk and Willoughby avenues in Ridgewood and which had a special section called 'Poppies for Palestine.' The garden's 10 'community agreements' — which ironically included a commitment to interrupt 'violent behavior or rhetoric that expresses all forms of hate' — breached Parks guidelines, leading to the license's termination, the agency said. 'Parks informed the garden that their membership requirements were not compliant, as they required prospective members to affirm the group's political and ideological viewpoints as laid out in the Community Agreements,' the agency said. The property must be cleared out by June 6. Garden organizers raged on Instagram that they are 'being shut down by racist transphobes and zionists,' but are undeterred, launching an online petition to save the garden and accusing the city of 'wrongful termination' of its license. 'We're being singled out for honoring trans legacy, our no tolerance to hateful rhetoric, standing against genocide, and refusing to back down in the face of complaints from a politically connected, bigoted neighbor,' according to the group, which said the city was 'using retaliatory tactics and weaponizing bureaucracy.' The group is threatening 'legal and direct action' against the city and asking supporters to call their local representatives in a bid to reverse its ouster. Garden organizer Laura Merrick did not return a request for comment. The garden opened in September 2023, started as a non-political endeavor but was 'hijacked by crazies,' about seven months later, Christina Wilkinson one of the early backers, has said. Statements supporting the Palestinians became plentiful on the garden's now-private Instagram page. One post featured a painting with the words 'From the River to the Sea,' an antisemitic phrase calling for the destruction of Israel. The garden also called on members to commit to using 'people's correct pronouns' and asking 'if we are unsure.' Other mandates stated 'we center and celebrate our queer, trans, disabled, chronically ill, femme, poor, immigrant, refugee, fat bodies, and richly melanated community.' Ridgewood resident Sara Schraeter-Mowersglad said she's relieved the city finally took action. 'I am hoping that, under new leadership, [the garden] will become a space that is safe for everyone, and that people in the community who want to garden will finally feel welcome to do so,' said Schraeter-Mowersm who is Jewish and said the garden's mandates made her feel threatened and alienated in her own neighborhood. The site was built by the Parks Department and non-profit GrowNYC on part of an athletic field owned by the city Department of Education. The cost to taxpayers was not immediately available. The location will continue to exist as a community garden, but with limited public access between now and whenever a deal is inked with a new group who agrees to take it over, Parks said. 'Public community gardens are for everyone, not just those who pass a political litmus test,' said City Councilman Robert Holden (D-Queens), one of the pols who reps the area. 'If this group of radicals wants to create an exclusive space, they should purchase private land and do it in their own time and dime.'
