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Ravenscourt Park Community Glasshouses

Funded on Spacehive 12 August 2019 Delivered 9 March 2023

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Ravenscourt Park Community Glasshouses

Hammersmith Community Gardens Association By Hammersmith Community Gardens Association

To replace a 1960's glasshouse that is structurally unsound. The new facility will be a community hub for gardening & related health & well being activities year round. A green community centre.

Hammersmith and Fulham Delivery stage

219
backers
£112,185
raised
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This project was funded on 12 Aug 2019!

HCGA have been gardening on the site since 2004. The existing glasshouse structures have been refurbished twice but are at the end of their life. Existing facilities consist of a completely inadequate 1 electric socket and 1 cold water tap. There is no heating and the resource is unusable during the winter (3 months of the year). The project is in response to many requests from local users who are also local residents. We offer a range of activities from school visits, volunteer gardening sessions for people including refugees and those with health and learning difficulties. Pop up Yoga is held twice weekly. The glasshouses are the headquarters for our wider organisation. The new glasshouse will be configured for maximum use. A large central space that can be used for meetings, concerts & workshops leading out on to the walled garden that we have exclusive use of. To facilitate this vision we have negotiated a 25 year lease on the site, & secured full planning perpmission

What we'll deliver:

  • To construct a new glasshouse a Green Community Hub for the benefit of local residents

Why it's a great idea:

Growing Plants - Growing People - Growing Communities is our slogan & this new glass house will provide our HQ & the heart of our operations. The project is a direct result of requests from our volunteers and user groups who are all local residents, several of whom have already undertaken lots of work behind the scenes securing the necessary legal permissions. The importance of green space to improve health & well being has long been recognised & in an inner city borough with very high deprivation indices the need for a small piece of calm and nature has never been more needed. Places for the local community to meet that aren't prohibitively expensive are scarce. One of the main drivers for the project is to be able to use the space year round. Currently we have to suspend many of our programmes between December - February as the facilities have no heating & leak. As a small local charity we understand the needs & aspirations of the local community & the project will be a focal point

Steps to get it done:

  • Schedule timing of works
  • Place glasshouse order
  • Dismantle existing structure
  • Trades on site (allow 12 weeks)
  • Launch Event
  • Project evaluation monitoring and reporting

Our charity is very people focused -we work with 60+ volunteers each week many of whom are socially or economically disadvantaged. Our Grow Well programme at the glasshouses runs activities for people with long term health issues or who have caring responsibilities. Our Get Out There / Men in Sheds project' all socially isolated older men' undertake much of the ,maintenance at the site. We receive referrals from St Mungos. Alzheimer’s Soc and local GPs. We receive many requests from other organisations and host regular professional tours to share our learning. We work with 16 schools on a weekly basis, grow plants for use by the schools at the project. We also host class visits at the glasshouses. We work across 4 local boroughs and the glasshouses are our HQ where we deliver a range of workshops for both the general public and CPD sessions for teacher and healthcare professionals Other groups also use the space, a yoga group and the NHS run an eco therapy session for patients.

Location Hammersmith and Fulham

About the space

Ravenscourt Glasshouses are situated in the well-loved and well-used local park. They are situated next to the park's cafe. Currently there are two glasshouses, growing beds, a wildlife garden and a walled garden.

Council

London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham

How will the money be spent?Total £111,571

Replacement glasshouses - £87,825 (79%)
Groundworks and recycling exisitng structure - £10,000 (9%)
Electric supply - £8,251 (7%)
Other - £5,495 (5%)

Costs Breakdown

This shows how money raised for the project will be spent. These costs have been confirmed by the project's Delivery Manager and verified.

79%
Replacement glasshouses
£87,825
9%
Groundworks and recycling exisitng structure
£10,000
7%
Electric supply
£8,251
5%
Other Read More
£5,495
  • Spacehive fees
    £4,304
  • VAT
    £861
  • Transaction Fees
    £331

Overfunding

This project is enabled for overfunding. If the project hits its funding goal before the end of the campaign period, any extra funds raised will be spent (in order of priority) on:

  • We would use any additional funds to improve the area around the glasshouse benches. Contribution toward 2nd glasshouse that is being separately funded

Total £111,571

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