Thursday 26th November 2015 – Anglia In Bloom
Richard and Kev attended the Anglia in Bloom/RHS ITS YOUR NEIGHBOURHOOD certificate presentation at Brook Hotel in Norwich and received on behalf the group an ‘Anglia in Bloom’ RHS It’s Your Neighbourhood award – level 3 developing.
Photos of the event can be seen here.
Wednesday 18th November 2015 – Norwich Soup
Norwich Soup is a community dinner where different groups from across the city can share ideas and a small project can gain seed money.
Richard and Wyn represented the group and presented our proposal for a £500 grant towards a future community event celebrating the neighbourhood.
We didn’t win but a good time and meal was shared by all. The award was won by Trade School Norwich. You can see a short video of the event here.
Saturday 24th October 2015 – A Sponsor for our Fig Tree
Thanks to Carnival Consulting for sponsoring our ‘White Marseilles’ fig tree.
Carnival Consulting is run by award winning business coach Anne Francis and provides mentoring, training and consultancy to help people start or develop their own socially-motivated businesses.
Interested in sponsoring a tree? See our full list of fruit trees and their sponsors for details of trees that are still available.
Saturday 3rd October and Sunday 4th October 2015 – Partial Replanting
Thanks to Janet Bearman, the brains behind some major replanting, the first since the garden was planted out in 2011. Under Janet’s direction, a small group of volunteers dug up some of the older woody sage and lavender, plus a lot of weeds before replanting and mulching. A new lavender border will be planted in the spring. A list of the new plants can be seen here.
We advertised this event as part of Norwich City Council’s Get involved Week and managed to recruit one new volunteer while keeping our small gang of regulars enthused! Thanks to everyone involved for all the hard work!
September 2015 – Anglia in Bloom
In September Mancroft ward was awarded the Best Urban Community trophy at the recent Anglia in Bloom awards. The Grapes Hill Community Garden and the Golding Place plum orchard (also managed by the group) were two of several areas of Mancroft visited by the judges during the summer.
Saturday 19th September 2015 – Norwich Veggie Fayre
We promoted the community garden at the Norwich Veggie Fayre and raised a grand total of £57.26 from the raffle, donations and sale of wild flower seeds, chutneys and books. Thanks to everyone who helped to run the stall.
Wednesday 5th August 2015 – Britain In Bloom
Today Britain in Bloom judges visited the garden.
Saturday 1st August 2015 – Thanks to the Co-op
We are grateful to the East of England Cooperative Society for contributing a six month supply of 480 teabags to Grapes Hill Community Garden for use at our meetings and fundraising events.
Sunday 7th June 2015 – The Big Lunch
This year’s Big Lunch was a great success. We were blessed with good weather and a very cheery and relaxed crowd of friends and neighbours. Thanks to everyone who helped make this such a great day: our own volunteers, the musicians, Totem for looking after the BBQ and Samantha Maguire for the face painting.
View photos on Facebook.
Sunday 3rd May 2015 – Nature in the Grapes Hill Community Garden
This year’s Nature in the Garden event was a great success despite a very rainy start. The birds of prey were the stars of the day with the homemade cakes coming a close second! Thanks to Norfolk Wild Encounters, Loke herbs, Strangers Coffee House and Tom Loudon for the organic wine-tasting. There are lots of photos on our Facebook page.
Sunday 19th April 2015 – Pruning and gardening course
Our pruning course in the garden was a great success.
Jon Darby gave us a short educational talk and then we all had a go at pruning and tying back a variety of fruit trees, fans, cordons and bushes as well as some of the other climbing plants. This course was well-attended and the feedback has been positive.
See Facebook for some photos of the event.
Saturday 14th March 2015 – Sculpture Unveiled
Brian Hannah, Chair of Norfolk County Council unveiled our new cherry tree sculpture today. (See EDP report.)
An appreciative crowd enjoyed a warming cuppa and were amazed by the added surprise of a solar powered water pump which propelled harvested rainwater up the middle of this giant sculpture only to cascade over the top creating a silvery veil of its own. The sun shone just long enough to provide the power.
Thanks to Patrick Goodall and his assistants and to all who came to help set up this event, serve teas and clear away. We had the chance to invite all our volunteers, facilitators and sponsors past and present to a drinks reception where we enjoyed a glass of British sparkling wine. Thanks to Jo and his team at the Reindeer Pub and Kitchen for their friendly service and delicious canapés.
The sculpture has been funded by The Greater Norfolk Development Partnership, Norfolk County Council’s The Arts Project Fund and Norwich City Council’s Small Community Grants.
Thursday 12th March 2015 – Annual General Meeting
We held our AGM at the Seven Cs Community Project, 5 St. Benedict’s View, Norwich.
This included a review of the year, a financial report, a discussion of upcoming events and the election of new and existing committee members.