By Burgess Park Food Project - trading as Glengall Wharf Garden
A new sustainable learning area for our community garden in Peckham. Once complete, we will host a programme of events that enable us to come together, learn and support each other in 2021 & beyond.
Following the isolation of 2020, we want to use 2021 to re-engage and uplift the community, whilst sharing skills and information on nature, art, health & wellbeing. We will install a used shipping container converted to serve as a learning space and hub for garden users and the community. Working with volunteers, we'll add solar panels, a rainwater harvesting system, a green roof and exterior living walls. Once complete, we’ll put together a schedule of new activities and events for all age groups that embody the essence of community gardening. These will include building raised beds for community use and building a cob oven for cooking garden produce. *We are awaiting final permission to install the shipping container. No funds will be transferred to the project until this permission is confirmed.*
What we'll deliver:
Why it's a great idea:
Establishing a new hub for locals that can act as a place of respite and fun in and amongst nature. Up to 48% of local residents do not have access to a garden (ONS). Re-engaging and uplifting the community with vibrant, inviting family friendly events and ongoing opportunities to connect after periods of isolation and loneliness. Bringing together and celebrating the many different social and cultural groups in the borough to re-establish the benefits of London’s multi-ethnic population. Supporting local artists and business. Over 70% of the self employed workforce expect to lose more than 50% of their income due to the impact of COVID19 (Oxford Economics). Providing participants with the tools to appreciate and focus on health and wellbeing after a traumatic period. Making activities free access or ‘pay what you can’ will ensure accessibility to all, this is important as Southwark has a higher than average poverty rate and higher income inequality. (Trust for London).
Steps to get it done:
In addition, the adding of an indoor classroom space will enable us to work towards official certification of our current food growing course and the creation of a permaculture course. As well as being a Green Flag Community Award winner, we are currently certified as a Permaculture Association Land Centre. At present we give the majority of our produce to the local foodbank. We would like to explore the possibility of produce being chosen & collected directly from the garden as well as ensuring anyone who would like to can be involved in the growing process.
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Glengall Wharf Garden is a peaceful green oasis at the east side of Burgess Park, Peckham. GWG is managed by and for local people using sustainable growing techniques and permaculture to develop the site as a place to build skills, community and wellbeing for all of our gardeners and visitors.
The Garden, which has been awarded the Green Flag Community Award since 2015, includes food growing beds, a forest garden, a healing yurt, beehives, chickens, ponds, a campfire and a composting toilet and
Our Aims are to:
Work with the local community to increase the understanding of healthy, local, fresh food.
Promote food growing, organic horticulture, permaculture and other ecological issues through skill sharing and volunteering.
Bring people together, building links within the community for groups and individuals.
Help improve the local green environment in Burgess Park and the surrounding area.
Help regenerate the local community, contribute to sustainable development in London and enhance the life of the park.
Community members are able to get involved through volunteer gardening sessions led by our gardeners and through food growing courses. In addition, members of the public are usually able to visit and walk around the garden when it is open.
For several years, the food we have grown has been donated to the local foodbank in Peckham to provide a variety of fresh and organic options. As the economic impact of the pandemic continues to be felt, and more people lose their income, we think it’s more important than ever to keep doing this and we are hoping to involve food bank visitors in the garden directly.
Although we had to take restrictive measures due to COVID-19, we still carried out some essential food growing and kept our volunteer garden sessions running for as long as possible to provide an outside activity for the community and continue the maintenance of the garden.
The Garden is run by volunteers in different working groups including a steering committee, a site group, comms and fundraising teams and a diversity and inclusion group. Volunteers are also responsible for the Chickens and Bees, the Yurt which runs mental health and homeopathy clinics and the Little Gardeners group for under 5s and carers which is run by local parents.
GWG continues to work towards finding new ways to connect with our local community, increase awareness and positive environmental impact and share some of what nature offers.
Project Owner: Burgess Park Food Project - trading as Glengall Wharf Garden The Project Owner takes legal responsibility for receiving and spending the funds raised and ensuring the project is delivered.
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