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Talkback: Gardeners and the Big Society
Julia Smith
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I'm leading a project to make the land the York RSPCA occupies act as an asset for the charity.
We got Silver in Yorkshire in Bloom last year and I think we were the only animal charity in the country that entered.
We have five key activities and the feedback we're getting is great with my favourite one being that the place 'looks friendlier!':
- Planting and landscaping to create a stimulating environment for the staff, volunteers, animals and visitors.
- Improving the environmentally friendly practices by; composting the waste from the small animals; harvesting rain water to use in the garden; reusing donated plant pots, fencing and wire.
- Making the garden a friendly and sustainable place for wildlife by installing; insect hotels; a small pond; handmade donated bird boxes; planting bee-friendly perennial plants; nurturing a native hedgerow.
- Establishing a plant nursery to grow plants for sale at the RSPCA events to raise cash for the charity
- Growing fruit and veg for the small animals in the care of the RSPCA to help reduce food bills
- Creating a memorial garden for people who would like to remember their pets who were adopted from the RSPCA
All of this activity must come at no cost to the charity so I have led on a number of fundraising initiatives to date resulting in over £3.5k-worth of materials and plants.
More info here: http://landinglanegardens.wordpress.com/
We got Silver in Yorkshire in Bloom last year and I think we were the only animal charity in the country that entered.
We have five key activities and the feedback we're getting is great with my favourite one being that the place 'looks friendlier!':
- Planting and landscaping to create a stimulating environment for the staff, volunteers, animals and visitors.
- Improving the environmentally friendly practices by; composting the waste from the small animals; harvesting rain water to use in the garden; reusing donated plant pots, fencing and wire.
- Making the garden a friendly and sustainable place for wildlife by installing; insect hotels; a small pond; handmade donated bird boxes; planting bee-friendly perennial plants; nurturing a native hedgerow.
- Establishing a plant nursery to grow plants for sale at the RSPCA events to raise cash for the charity
- Growing fruit and veg for the small animals in the care of the RSPCA to help reduce food bills
- Creating a memorial garden for people who would like to remember their pets who were adopted from the RSPCA
All of this activity must come at no cost to the charity so I have led on a number of fundraising initiatives to date resulting in over £3.5k-worth of materials and plants.
More info here: http://landinglanegardens.wordpress.com/
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I always have lots of surplus plants as I love growing from seed and these get sold to make funds for various local charities. If there is a fair you can bet there will be a plant stall!
In the winter I give slide shows about gardening and the gardens I visit as well as the BG and these are always enjoyed when days are grey. And, of course, I do my fair share of office work which is a poor second to gardening by being the Hon. Secy of our local group of the Alpine Garden Society. And I am only one of many thousands who do likewise out of enthusiasm for living plants and through them all things living.