Click on the pink tape measure to see the report!
Blooming Ellesmere Port Wards published their Delivery Report!2 years ago
Revitalising ward planters to make Ellesmere Port bloom again, encouraging local volunteers to look after them long term and providing the tools needed to do so.
Ellesmere Port has 29 large planters around the area, all have the names of the wards they are sited in. Due to Covid and budget restrictions they have not been replanted, they are markers for each area and do not give a good impression looking unkept and messy. We would like funding to replant them to bring colour to the wards, this will add to our 2022 RHS in Bloom Proposal. Initially we will be using a local firm to provide and plant them, including Perennials to give year round colour and interest. We hope that after the first year we will have a team of volunteers who will do the planting and maintenance of the planters. We also require funding for our newly established 'Tool Library' giving volunteers and groups access to the tools they need not only for the planters but their own green spaces. Again our volunteers will be assisting the groups to establish their new spaces, become a part of Ellesmere Port in Bloom and make our place a colourful, bright and vibrant place to live
What we'll deliver:
Why it's a great idea:
By replanting and continuing to look after the planters it will bring colour back to the wards. The planters currently are overgrown with weeds, used as rubbish bins and give a poor view of the area. By planting and continuing to look after them it will brighten up the area for residents, it will encourage volunteering in those areas to look after them. The planters will bring people together after 18 months of isolation, will give people a pride in their area and hopefully encourage residents to get involved not only in their ward but the wider area. The Tool Library will allow the volunteers and local groups to be able to access the tools they need, not only for the planters but other projects. Many of the groups dont have the tools they need to do more projects in their local area, the Library will allow them to borrow the tools at no cost. EPiB are aiming to bring back into use areas that have been abandoned to make the Port a bright and colourful place to live and work for all.
Steps to get it done:
Gallery
Journey
Follow this project You are following this project for updates to your inbox
Click on the pink tape measure to see the report!
Brilliant news, thanks everyone!
Whoop, 30 people have pledged since fundraising began!
How will the money be spent?Target (inc. fees) £13,918
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.
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:
Target (inc. fees) £13,918
Our Volunteer List
Want to help?
Do you have stuff or skills to contribute to this project? Use this tool to offer something to the project creator.
Volunteer
Ellesmere Port in Bloom are a constituted unregistered charity working with a growing number of small groups of people and groups in the area to make the borough greener and a better place to live and work. Made up of local people with support from the Council and various businesses we enter the RHS in Bloom competition and ultimately aim to receive the gold award. To get to this award we work with local groups to bring back into use disused and abandoned spaces, making our environment brighter, more colourful and with local people enjoying them and also helping to maintain them. We received a Silver award in 2019 and are awaiting the result of this years assessment. We have 12 plus groups under the umbrella of EPiB with three new groups/areas joining us this year and we hope to expand this for 2022. We have ambitious plans for the future including recruiting and involving local volunteers to not only maintain the planters but also to assist in adopting new spaces and helping new groups to achieve their aims. We also aim to provide support to the groups to enable them to raise the money they need to be able to do and run their projects, hoping to make them sustainable through fundraising, support from local businesses and possibly outside funders such as the Lottery. Our plans include holding plant sales, open days and 'Have a Go' days to not only raise funds to continue to plant the planters in the future but to recruit volunteers to the projects and build a network of volunteers to help keep Ellesmere Port Blooming. We are also setting up a Tool Library to lend the tools needed for the groups to be able to clear and plant new spaces, tools that they would only need to use for a short time but dont have access to normally. This will reduce their costs, solve storage space issues and bring them together under the EPiB umbrella. Gardening is good for our Mental Health and our project will bring groups of people together after what has been for many a bad period in our lives. It will also improve peoples isolation issues, give them a chance to make new friends and give people pride in the area and what they have achieved. Then at some stage we will achieve our 'dream' of being awarded gold in the RHS competition but in the meantime we will achieve a brighter, colouful and tidy place to live and work with a community that helps to achieve this result.
Project Owner: Ellesmere Port in Bloom The Project Owner takes legal responsibility for receiving and spending the funds raised and ensuring the project is delivered.
Find me at:
