Wednesday 16th December 2009
Read about us on the Evening News 24 website.
Sunday 29th November 2009
Fundraising Christmas Cards are now available, price 40p each, £1.50 for five or £2.50 for ten.
Postage and packing costs 50p for every ten cards. E-mail or phone Fran on 07729 540 482 to order.
The design is by group member Vanna Bartlett, based on Danny’s GHCG logo.
Monday 26th October 2009
Lara Hall, our Garden Designer, has prepared an Initial Sketch of the garden design, funded by a £500 lottery grant.
Saturday 24th October 2009
The Belvedere Centre proved to be an excellent venue for our first fundraising gig on Saturday 10th October and led to further enquiries from musicians willing to play for us in the future. There was a healthy mixture of SweetBeats fans and members of our local community who had a second opportunity to look at the draft plans and offer suggestions.
Many thanks to The SweetBeats for playing at a much reduced fee, allowing us to raise a total profit £450. Over £100 of this was raised from the sale of plants and raffle tickets so thanks again to all who donated plants and prizes. Donors included The Greenhouse on Bethel Street and The Green Grocers on Earlham Road. A final thank you to Dave Sturgess and Patrick Goodall of Urban Oasis who kept us all entertained in the interval.
Saturday 10th October 2009
We had confirmation that the Lottery would fund us £500 towards our plans for the garden, which will be managed by Groundworks UK.
Saturday 10th October 2009
Successful first Fundraising Gig by The SweetBeats.
Monday 5th October 2009
General Meeting at The Belvedere Centre, where three new committee members were elected, bringing the total to seven.
Friday 2nd October 2009
Grapes Hill Community Garden and The SweetBeats gig feature in the October 2009 edition of “VoluME” digital magazine, which can be downloaded from the BBC Norfolk website.
August 2009 Press Release
The latest news on the Grapes Hill Community Garden, issued as a Press Release.
25th July – 2nd August 2009 – Love Parks Week
Please nominate Grapes Hill Community Garden for Love Parks Week on the Fiskars Orange Thumb website.
If we win we will have the assistance of a team of Orange Thumb volunteers and loads of great Fiskars garden tools, to help rejuvenate our site.
Friday 24th July 2009
Grapes Hill Community Garden website launched.
Saturday 11th July and Sunday 12th July 2009
Peter and Fran Ellington attended a weekend course at the Agroforestry Research Trust in Totnes, Devon to get some ideas on planning, designing and maintaining a forest garden.
We hope to incorporate these ideas into the final design. The course included a visit to an established forest garden.
Friday 3rd July 2009
Paul Wade from Norwich City Council confirmed that he has successfully bid for funding through the Safer Norwich Partnership for City Care to supply iron railings and a gate for the site.
We now have to apply for planning permission to erect these and find either the money or willing volunteers to put them up.
Tuesday 30th June 2009
Meeting on site with a garden designer who has agreed in principle to get involved.
Thursday 18th June 2009
Members of the Grapes Hill Community Garden committee met with Big Lottery Open Spaces facilitator Marya Parker to discuss how to go about meeting the requirements of our application for a Community Spaces grant of £50,000, which has been passed at the first stage.
We learnt that we need to employ a qualified garden designer or landscape architect to draw up plans to scale with quotes for the work. We need to appoint an accountable body and we are approaching Norwich City Council to see if they will take on this role. We also need to appoint a lead professional to manage the project.
Sunday 14th June 2009
Several members met at the Bowthorpe Heritage Community Garden just off Toyle Road in Norwich. Madge Roberts showed us around the garden and talked to us about their experiences. We gained lots of inspiration and thoroughly recommend a visit to this site.
Wednesday 10th June 2009
Fran presented an update to the West Pottergate Tenants and Residents Association on the progress made since presenting the idea to the group this time last year.
Tuesday 9th June 2009
Several members gathered to watch the DVD ‘A Year in a Forest Garden’ by Martin Crawford of the Agroforestry Research Trust. This was in response to suggestions made at our awareness day in February.
Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th May 2009
Three members attended the Norfolk Master Composters’ course run by Norfolk County Council and Garden Organic at the Swaffham EcoTech Centre.
Sunday 22nd February 2009
The Community Awareness and Fun Day was a great success. Our special guest was Bob Flowerdew.