Our Delivery Report
Funded on 29 November 2019 | Delivered on 17 March 2020
£11,038
RAISED
75
BACKERS
65
DAYS TO FUND
BIGGEST PLEDGE
£4,000
From Kirklees Council
sanctuary kirklees donated £1,000
Tom Taylor donated £50
Veronika Susedkova donated £20
Diane Sims donated £30
radi haloub donated £20
50 Days volunteering opportunities
Green Building Store donated £500
private donation donated £500
Frank Kibble donated £2
More about our impact
The environment
The project has already made a positive effect on the site but the variety of plants, flowers and vegetables we have been able to cultivate this year. We have seen increasing numbers of birds and insects being attracted as well as evidence of local deer who have particularly enjoyed the chard and strawberries!
The local economy
We sold around 150kg of potatoes, onions and broad beans to the Welcome Centre at below the price they would normally pay, to enable them to provide fresh food in their food parcels. We also sold potatoes, onions, jerusalem artichokes and leeks to the two community owned grocers in Marsden and Slaithwaite. Volunteers who have worked on the site have also benefited from fresh local produce as it has become available.
Volunteering, jobs & education
Not in the way we have envisaged but the project has provided a valuable resource for our exising volunteers and also a number of local people who were either new to the area and/or living on their own and have been able to spend time working and meeting with people safely and responsibily on site through the lockdown in particular.
Activity, health and leisure
as above there are great, proven, health benefits, both physical and mental health, to gardening/growing activities. Even modest activity enables the experience of nature and outdoors to enhance personal health and wellbeing.
