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Growing Together
2025-05-12 • No comments • • Grow Your Own fund
The events and activities on offer the chance to take part in gardening and growing workshops, cooking on a fire and wood oven, sessions with music and movement, woodland crafts, planting growing your own food at home and celebration events. All the activities will be developed around the needs of the community and we plan to be led by their ideas moving forward.
Addressing current barriers preventing the local community from connecting whilst engaging them to develop their own social hub. A place where they can grow, socialise and enjoy food together. Helping local people to develop friendships and feel more invested in the area, making it sustainable in the longer term.
ELGT’s team who currently deliver Out & About in and around South Edinburgh, which has been successful for many years, will plan and deliver the programme on behalf of the management committee and centre. We have collaborated on many programmes over the years with families, kids groups, youth groups and older adults, which have all been very successful. Their aim is to introduce communities to outdoor based activities in an affordable way, making them more sustainable for the future. These should be offered in a comfortable and fun way – with lots of positivity to encourage further attendance.
In the longer term aiming to give the local community tools to move forward with a sustainable and achievable plan to improve health and well being.
Collaboratively we will be getting people involved, building relationships and developing trust by using innovative ways to engage with those that are hard to reach. Using our knowledge and skills to bring the young people we work with along to activities, whilst the team at ELGT will gain referrals through Community Link Workers, GP’s and clinicians, other organisations and key stake holders. We will also promote these activities thorough our popular social media platforms as well as distributing and displaying promotional materials locally too.
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- Increased food production for community cooking groups and pantry
- Forming friendships and reducing social isolation
- Trying new activities
- Learning new skills
- Greater connections with community
- Improved confidence
- Increased independence
- Intergenerational opportunities for the community
- Connected with nature in their local greenspace
- Increased community participation and volunteering
- Build strong, inclusive and resilient communities
- Opportunities that meet community needs to address health inequalities
Redhall Grows
2025-05-12 • No comments • • Grow Your Own fund
Redhall Grows would utilise the current garden space we have for growing food, cooking, and enjoying it together. We would implement raised beds, along with a polytunnel, to grow a variety of fruit and vegetables. Each of our nine classes would take an active role in the planting and tending to our food growing project. It would also become a key part of our outdoor learning sessions and Eco Group remit. At the moment, we are quite limited in funding for fresh fruits and vegetables for our children to try. The food grown in our garden project could become an incredible tool for our children’s communication. Most of our children are nonspeaking and utilise alternative types of communication. Their diets are also frequently quite limited. Trying new things and learning how to indicate what they like and don’t like would be an invaluable activity for our learners.
Further to the empowering benefits of our learners being able to grow food from seed and figure out what they do and don’t like, with an outdoor kitchen and pizza oven, the garden could be used to cooking sessions (life skills related to health and wellbeing are a large part of our curriculum).
To involve parents and the local community, we would aim to host a series of food-related engagements within the garden, such as a pizza night and a soup night. We would signpost this widely to draw in local community members into the life of our school.
We are currently working on achieving our Green Flag award with Eco Schools, and are hoping to create a more sustainable environment for our leaners and the wider community.