Estimated Price

£5,000

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Summary

We wish to launch a community growing area beside the Jewel Miners Welfare Charitable Society, where we will install planters, clear areas for allotments, remove rubbish and create areas for growing food which will be distributed in the local community.

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Description

We will clear the areas identified as prime growing locations and create biodiversity hubs.  We will also pay for a member of staff to run the project and chair meeting groups from the local community.  There are two areas identified, one which is council owned and one owned by ourselves, a retaining wall will need modified to have a gate in it, for access to the area owned by ourselves and we expect around 60 people to be involved in the growing.  We are forming a brand new group called friends of the Jewel who will do this.  The Jewel is in one of the most deprivated areas of not only our wonderful city but all of Scotland, and the community dearly needs areas to grow food.  We see this as a long term food growing and community development opportunity that will expand and take in partnerships throughout the area.  We have no equipment to do this yet so will need to purchase everything we need to build raised beds, topsoil, nutrients, etc.

The area marked on the map is the council owned area, the white area directly to its right by our bowling green lawn is where the walled off area is that we own.