The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS), has awarded almost £30,000 to support 28 Yorkshire organisations that were in need of a cash injection to allow their community projects to flourish.
Six groups will receive up to £5,000 to finance large projects and a further twenty two groups will get up to £500 to help fund smaller projects and start-up costs. The six are:
1) Ripon Community Link (Harrogate), a charity that supports people with learning difficulties, is getting £4,940 to install a propagation system
2) St George’s Crypt (Leeds), a charity for the homeless, is getting £1,000 to give their communal garden a makeover
3) Hunmanby in Bloom (Scarborough), a community gardening group, is receiving £2,100 to build a community orchard and wildlife area for its 3,500 residents
4) YMCA White Rose (Sheffield) is getting £4,100 to help fund a new community allotment project for young people from deprived backgrounds in the area
5) Centre at Threeways (North Halifax), an emerging community organisation, is converting an acre of waste land into a growing space
6) Goldthorpe Development Group (Barnsley), a social enterprise, is receiving £2,450 to build a fence around an allotment to make it safer for service users and to create an area for people with sight problems
Organisations that were awarded smaller funds include East Garforth Primary School (Leeds) which aims to help enhance pupils’ lives through horticulture, and Harrogate and District Biodiversity Action Group that is planning to create a wildlife garden on the grounds of a local hospital.
The Yorkshire investment project, which is also being piloted in Scotland, is part of a wider regional development initiative by the RHS which aims to directly support grass-roots gardeners throughout the UK.
To find out more, visit: http://www.rhs.org.uk/regional
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