Avenue Community Garden

Funded on Spacehive 17 December 2020

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Avenue Community Garden

By Avenue Community Garden Association Leicester Delivery

Avenue Community Garden

By Avenue Community Garden Association

The aim of the project is to transform a disused piece of council land, which has been a focus of anti-social behaviour into a community garden to bring local residents together and benefit wildlife.

Leicester Delivery stage

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The aim of the project is to transform a disused piece of council land, which has been a focus of anti-social behaviour into a community garden to bring local residents together and benefit wildlife.

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17 Dec 2020!

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This project was funded on 17 Dec 2020!

Avenue Community Garden Association

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We're crowdfunding to create a new green space in an inner suburb of Leicester. Having recently secured planning permission for the project, we are working with the Council to complete the landscaping of the space on Avenue Road Extension. Your contribution will go towards kitting out the new garden with a shed, composter, water butts, raised beds, a path, security and covid security. It will be child and family friendly and forge links with the school and the many centres for faith groups, fostering good relations between communities. We will promote art and storytelling. We have strong links with the community garden on Bulwer Road and would like to form a network of volunteer-based green spaces, to share expertise. There will be no tolerance of discrimination and harassment from members. Committee positions are open to all. One committee member will be responsible for diversity and one for education. Please help us create a new green space for the local community to enjoy!

What we'll deliver:

A new green space in the heart of the city
A shed for the Avenue Community Garden Association members to store their tools
Water butts to recycle rainwater
Fresh vegetables grown in raised beds
Our own compost from food waste
Security measures

Why it's a great idea:

COVID-19 has shown us that we really value our green spaces for our own physical and mental health. Avenue Community Garden will provide a safe space for the local community to come and unwind while learning new skills of horticulture! We will help the environment by recycling rainwater and food waste for the vital ingredients that will make our garden grow!

Steps to get it done:

Purchase water butts, composters, benches and raised beds
Create the new community garden
Open the new garden and bring the community together!

By creating a small local focus at this end of Clarendon Park and by outreach to existing bodies (eg faith groups), we hope to do something to promote community cohesion. It will be a small but lively place for residents to pursue their hobbies and make friends, a small oasis for people and wildlife.

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Location Leicester

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Leicester City Council

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26 Pledges worth £6553 years ago

Avenue Community Garden hit its fundraising target!3 years ago

Brilliant news, thanks everyone!

Jan Grothusen pledged £5003 years ago

We're Overfunding!

We hit our funding goal!

Avenue Community Garden has reached 70% of its target!3 years ago

20 backers!

20 people have backed Avenue Community Garden!3 years ago

Whoop, 20 people have pledged since fundraising began!

4 people liked Avenue Community Garden3 years ago

10 backers!

10 people have backed Avenue Community Garden!3 years ago

Whoop, 10 people have pledged since fundraising began!

Avenue Community Garden has reached 50% of its target!3 years ago

Leicester City Mayor pledged £7503 years ago

This project is part of:

CrowdFund Leicester

How will the money be spent?Total £1,738

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.

29%

Locks/cctv

£500

23%

Garden Shed

£395

12%

Plants

£200

11%

5 x Water Butts

£185

10%

9 x Raised Beds

£180

2 x Composters

£89

2 x Benches

£75

Other

£114

Spacehive fees

£90
VAT

£18
Transaction Fees

£6

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:

Purchase a table and chairs
Purchase plants for the community garden

Total £1,738

Our Volunteer List

We're currently looking for people to offer skills and time to develop our project! Check out the list of what we need below and then use the 'Volunteer' button to the right to get involved.

The time has now come to think carefully about how the garden can be designed to accommodate as many interests as possible. We are looking for committed people able to collaborate in teams and make compromises where necessary.
We are looking for people who are knowledgeable and can help design a garden that encourages wildlife, works as an arts space, is stimulating and safe for small children, includes everyone, whatever their mobility and can also accommodate dogs.
We are also looking for people with admin skills to help with accounts, membership and social media.
We would love people with practical gardening and landscaping skills to get involved, such as composting, growing, pruning and general maintenance. You will be very important for keeping the garden going and passing on your skills to newcomers.
We need people willing to be on the committee. Currently, we particularly need a treasurer.
Soon we will need officers on the committee to look after the interests of the garden from the following viewpoints: membership, diversity, procurement and maintenance, wildlife, education, arts, families with children, and pets.

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Kat Gibson offered

Happy to give seedlings and young plants; I enjoy growing things from seed - just let me know what is wanted! Happy to do some deadheading too (I know little about pruning other than deadheading). Would love to do community arts sessions there in due course too, acrylic painting, creative writing & craft bits (for fun, not as part of any business etc). (Might have to put some arbitrary figures under hours and value etc, as I’m not sure whether it’s asking total hours - over what length of time? Months/years or per week etc? Value of my time or resources? Happy to commit a few hours a month; value of art/writing sessions can depend entirely on numbers and what people would normally pay for that sort of thing; likewise the plants and seedlings - so it’s difficult for me to put concrete figures below.)

Rosanna Motz offered

I'm not a professional landscaper but an enthusiastic hobby gardener and would love to help out with building the garden, growing, pruning and general maintenance.

Melanie Wilde offered

I have been a gardener for many years and since March 2019 I have been an active member of Clarendon Park Community Garden and shadowed the committee members, during their regular Saturday morning gardening meetings (when Covid-19 permitted). This has allowed both an in depth understanding of how a community garden can run and also a greater awareness of some of the challenges. As an experienced teacher, I would like to help make the garden a place for children and adults to learn about wildlife and gardening

samuel oldman offered

As someone who has lived in the area all my life, I would like to contribute to such a great community opportunity. I am a gardener and specialise in social and therapeutic horticulture. I would be happy to put in practical time into the upkeep of the garden and also in any support in shaping community initiatives.

Paper bee Designs offered

Support with social media and marketing.

kay hewitt offered

Hi, Dave and I are happy to offer some time to the project, Dave is a full-time gardener, I do some part time so lots of skills there, i see you've other gardeners offering too so that is brilliant. I would be happy to take on the treasurer role if you are struggling to find someone, i've run my own business for many years and managed a charity in the past :)

Hannah Donkin offered

Hello! I’m an amateur gardener and I’m very interested in lending a hand in any hard labour, pruning, and all things maintenance! I also work in admin and would love to offer my time in that as well! I currently have an actual army of strawberry plants in my garden (about 25 plants) so I’m more than willing to offer some of those to the space too :-)

Amy Peace offered

Hello, I work in environmental education and would be keen to offer support for this project in the area that I live. I could run workshops for both children and adults specifically around pollination and wildlife. I would also be interested in lending a hand to get the garden established.

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