NGS money is used to improve lives and communities
Funding worth £247,502 has been given to 95 community garden projects across England, Wales and Northern Ireland by the National Garden Scheme.
From social welfare and gardening projects that help the isolated, the disabled and the disenfranchised to support for community orchards, food banks and social prescribing projects at GP surgeries, the funding provides a much-needed boost to those working on or initiating community garden projects.
Many of the funded community projects in turn open for the National Garden Scheme completing a virtuous circle of giving and giving back. Included among the projects that have benefited are Rhubarb Farm, Nottinghamshire, which provides training and volunteering opportunities to 60 ex-offenders, drug and alcohol misusers, older people, school students, people with mental and physical ill health and learning disabilities.
The project received a grant for £1,352 and now opens its gates through the National Garden Scheme on dates in May, June, July and August.
Ponthafren, Montgomeryshire is a registered charity that provides a caring community to promote positive mental health and wellbeing for all. The charity received a grant for £2,612 from the National Garden Scheme for raised beds and apolytunnel and water butts for grey watering. The venue now opens for the Scheme on 27 and 28 July and by arrangement.
TWIGS Community Garden in Wiltshire provides a therapeutic environment in which people experiencing mental health issues can ga
