Shelthorpe Community Garden
The Shelthorpe Community Garden, including a mural by Charnwood Arts.
The Shelthorpe Community Garden is a project run by the Shelthorpe Community Association in Loughborough.
It is the only garden on the Shelthorpe Estate to have been restored into a functioning community garden. The theme of the garden is the “Circle of Life”, and it will be used for growing vegetables by local residents and community groups, for public events and for learning about environmental issues.
The project has been supported by Communities Cutting Carbon and Charnwood Borough Council.
Activities
- The Community Garden regularly involves local residents, school children, university students and other community organisations in work days and growing vegetables on the site.
- An open day was held on Wednesday 24th August 2011, to thank the many funders and supporters who have helped with the project over the previous year. See below for photos.
- The project was awarded a Climate Friendly Communities grant to fund the purchase of tools, training on environmentally friendly growing and the construction of a composting urinal.
- In June 2011, two training sessions took place on organic growing techniques led by local experts Sam Woods and Alec Duthie.
Documents
- DOWNLOAD Shelthorpe Community Garden case study
- Presentation on project ideas for Shelthorpe, Loughborough (MS Powerpoint, 2.7 Mb)
Given by Andrew Reeves from Communities Cutting Carbon at a Shelthorpe Community Association EGM on Tuesday 20th July 2010
Media coverage
Veg growing on the community garden
- Baroness Warsi visit
April 2011: Visit of Conservative Party chair Baroness Warsi to the Community Garden
- Report on mural
Report and photos of the mural in the garden, carried out by Charnwood Arts in 2010
- Tool hire scheme
December 2009: Loughborough Echo story on the tool hire scheme for gardens launched by Shelthorpe Community Association
Contact details
Contact person: Ann Watkinson
Tel: 01509 730 435
Mobile: 07986 159 238
Email: Click here to email.
Website: http://www.cnh.org.uk/shelthorpe-community-association.html