Click on the pink tape measure to see the report!
Community Orchard at Captains Garden published their Delivery Report!2 years ago
By Deal With It - Transition Deal
Our volunteer group want to bring back the 18thC walled garden to life at Deal Castle for community use by planting 100 trees to create a wonderful space to unite people together in nature.
Working in partnership with English Heritage volunteers from Deal With It and its Community Hop growing project 'Deal Hop Farm' has been bringing the historic walled garden at Deal Castle back in use for the community since 2017. We now want to take the next step and this is where we need your help! We have experienced the most challenging of years and now more than ever, the mindful joys of nature and gardening have been highlighted. Coming together with neighbours and friends to volunteer and give our time to projects that benefit the community is so important. Restoring the orchard of approx 100 trees which would have existed c1872 will provide many environmental, wildlife and amenity benefits, as well as encouraging more opportunities for volunteering and getting out and about in this beautiful space. A massive amount of work has already been done over the first 3 season - some 3000 volunteer hours alone in 2020 and we hope to get even more people involved as we grow.
What we'll deliver:
Why it's a great idea:
- Important step of permanently opening to the local community - Encouraging volunteering in the community - Access to nature and gardening outdoors to improve mental health - Immediate benefits in the context of the climate and wildlife crisis - Produce more food and educate - Linkage to Bee keeping starting the garden this year - Generally enhance the ascetic and wellbeing environment of the garden for visitors - Meets the requirements of English Heritage's Conservation Statement for the Site
Steps to get it done:
To make the garden more sustainable we are looking to create a charitable trust to run it in the medium term.
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!
We have planted our first Batch of 35 trees this week ! Our trees are coming in two more batches - one in May 2022 for 18 trees for the two apple and pear 'Victorian Step-over' and the main batch of 70 trees coming in Dec 2022. All the trees are being grown specially for us by Grow Brogdale based at the national fruit collection. We hope to able to let you know soon of our open days soon so you can come to see what you have funded. Many thanks for your support from the volunteers at the Captains Garden.
Just a quick xmas update on our plans for the orchard at the Captain's Garden @ Deal Castle. We been very lucky to have been working with Brogdale, the home of the national fruit collection, to design the orchard and pick for us interesting varieties which will thrive at the garden. They have selected some 65 different varieties for us with lovely names like Chorister Boy, Laxton’s Fortune, Marjorie’s Seedling Plum and Neville Copeman just to name a few. The trees will be specially grafted & grown for us by Brogdale which great part of the story. We will be planting the first 35 trees in January, then in the spring we are building a Victorian stepover with 16 apples and pears and the remaining 69 trees will be delivered in December 2022 - in total there will be at least 120 trees. We will be doing another post in January on our public planting day which people can get involved with. Thank you again for your support in making this all happen in 2021 (+2022)
Iam very glad to report that with 85 backers we have exceed our target - so we will be able to start planting the orchard this winter. Thank you so much for making this happen We are working hard to complete our plans but we think we will start planting in December. We will let people know when things are going happen and the idea is to have at least a couple of public plantings The Crowdfunding runs until next Tuesday 31/8 - Spacehive will then action your pledge (i.e. take the money) so you can expect the money you pledged will be coming out of your account in the first ten days in September. A little reminder we have another open day this Sunday with Dover Bee-Keepers on site ... so hope to see you then Many thanks for your support - its really appreciated by us Deal With It on behalf of Captain's Garden Community Garden Group
Whoop, 70 people have pledged since fundraising began!
Brilliant news, thanks everyone!
How will the money be spent?Target (inc. fees) £6,186
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) £6,186
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.
VolunteerBackground on Deal With It -Transition Deal
Deal With It is local environment voluntary group, which part of the loose transition town network – which sees community action as key to addressing climate change as well producing better more resilient communities.
We have been going for about 14 years and produce about 5000 volunteer hours per year thru our various projects
In 2019 we were award a Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service.
Figure 8 QAVS at the Captain's Garden 2019
Main activities
We are volunteer led organisation with no staff and little money but get a lot done
Project Owner: Deal With It - Transition Deal The Project Owner takes legal responsibility for receiving and spending the funds raised and ensuring the project is delivered.
Find me at:
