Our Delivery Report
Funded on 16 July 2021 | Delivered on 15 November 2021
£13,424
RAISED
60
BACKERS
77
DAYS TO FUND
BIGGEST PLEDGE
£4,000
From Kirklees Council
15/11/21 - 15/11/21
Official opening of the project
Holme Valley Lions Club donated £320
Rotary Club Of Holmfirth Trust Fund donated £250
Ian Parker donated £10
The Thornton Family Fund donated £2,200
Huddersfield Roundtable donated £1,650
Arnold Clark Community Fund donated £1,000
More about our impact
The environment
The new allotment will expand childrens experiences of outdoor activities. The growing of vegetables, fruits and flowers, will attract wildlife into the allotment (insects, butterflies, birds) to open up a world of discovery, experienced as a group or on there own if the need rises for a time of personal space. Halloween, Religious Festivals, Christmas are times the allotment can be used for class events or just for enjoying lessons on a sunny day. Growing new trees from seed, collected from the school wood, will show the importance of living in a healthy environment, with seedlings getting planted around the school grounds.
Volunteering, jobs & education
Two groups are ready to come into the school to get the allotment off on the right track. The first is "Grow to School", who have raised money to attend the school twice a term over a year period, coming to educate the children on how to grow from seed, provide information sheets for each vegetable detailing the care they need to flourish and grow in different soil types and watering needs. Another group, "Sharing Memories", who have members in their latter stages of life, will be asked back to help children with their knowledge of not just gardening, but sharing their life experiences of growing up and living in a much different world. Both age groups will benefit enormously from these gatherings with a new understanding of how others live.
Activity, health and leisure
The joy of an allotment is that it is not constrained solely at the school. Knowledge that children learn can be put into action wherever they live, whether it be with a small garden, where plants can be grown using various types of containers, to growing flowers that could then be replanted around local villages to brighten up areas where they live. To be shown how to use a spade, fork or rake will be new to many children, so to be able to fill a watering can and use it as an outdoor activity will hold benefits for the remainder of their lives.
