Find out more
Volunteers meet every Tuesday, year round, on the Ilford Avenue Allotments, Poulton Road, Wallasey (10am - 4pm).For more information, get in touch with Jeff Hughes, Project Worker: 0151 639 2121, mobile number 0797 609 1425 or emailjeff@la21.net
In a nutshell
there is now a place in Wirral to grow fresh, healthy, organic vegetables and fruit and share them with other volunteers. There is also an accredited training scheme available in organic gardening and crafts. A great way to get started or share your knowledge with others.
Wirral LA21 Network
is a local charity and one of its aims is to encourage the uptake of lifestyles which will help the environment now and for the future. Eating food locally grown with minimal packaging can help, but it can be rewarding and enjoyable to grow it yourself.
What has happened so far?
Following the success of Tots Plots, a mini-allotment scheme set up in fourteen primary schools in Wirral by WLN, it was clear the there was a need for a community garden to be developed at our base here in Wallasey. There was an under-used, semi-neglected garden here. Funding was gained in the autumn of 2002 from New Wallasey Regeneration and the Gatsby Project. An accredited organic garden course was run through the WEA and the gardening began. The garden is now an improved wildlife habitat, after gardening without chemicals, using a variety of native plants and creating a pond. It also smells and tastes good and is a place to relax.
Other groups
As well as individual volunteers the garden has been developed with the help of other groups. Firstly the Social Services Central Park Project are a major user of the garden. Working Life, Tam OShanter Urban Farm, W.E.A, Riverside Centre, Eastham Conservation Trust, Dale Farm, Bambi Playgroup and SWNC Creche have all helped.
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