Here We Grow Birkenhead

Funded on
07 Jan 2025

The project will transform the 'Here We Grow' space into a sustainable biodiversity-rich community garden in urban Birkenhead, providing health and wellbeing enhancing opportunities for local families

£31,400 Raised of £30,696

109 Backers

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LCR Community Environment Fund - Large projects - £26,000
1 year ago

Adam Mellor - £100
2 years ago

Anonymous - £44
2 years ago

Chloe Rose - £10
2 years ago

Haji Rose Tin Tin Sann trust - £50
2 years ago Project worthy of support for our children from Birkenhead

Adèle Emmas - £5
2 years ago

Yasmin Lennon-Chong - £5
2 years ago

Anonymous - £10
2 years ago

Farid Alsafaar - £5
2 years ago Go Grow 🤍

Anonymous - £50
2 years ago

https://www.grow-wellbeing.com

Grow-Wellbeing is a socially trading organisation that supports healthy communities, strongly connected to nature, committed to diversity and inter-generational co-operation. Grow’s work is delivered within the context of respect for the natural environment and each individual participant, enhancing holistic health and wellbeing. Grow-Wellbeing's multi-disciplinary team includes early years and primary educators, therapists, horticulturalists and arborists, landscape architects and conservationists, many of them qualified forest school leaders.

Grow provides outdoor play and learning and skills development sessions and community gardening/ social horticulture, incorporating nature therapy (including mindfulness) approaches, creative arts (including storytelling), and is wholly participative. The sessions are delivered in natural environments, including community gardens, forested or woodland settings and school grounds. Our programmes support the growth and development of resilient children and young people committed to the future stewardship of the natural environment.

Grow-Wellbeing is an Approved Training Provider and delivers Forest School Leader Training, as well as learning and training courses, accredited and non-accredited, providing support for young people and adults to develop personal and practical skills that help them to take steps to employability. Our contracts with Wirral Lifelong Learning will bring added value at no cost to the project, as will funding received from Merseyside Police to initiate a project to help prevent children and young people being involved in anti-social behaviour/ crime.

Our work with young people has provided children and young people awaiting therapeutic support from CAMHS with nature-based interventions to enhance their mental health and wellbeing. Others we provide nature-based opportunities for include young carers, care experienced children and care leavers; SEN, autistic, neurodiverse and gender questioning young people; young people and adults with learning disabilities; parents with new born babies.

Grow's work with vulnerable adults includes leading bushcraft or horticulture activities with refugees and asylum seekers, men recovering from drug and alcohol addiction; people who have been homeless; neurodiverse and autistic adults and those with learning disabilities, and local elderly or socially isolated residents.

Project Owner: Grow-Wellbeing CIC The Project Owner takes legal responsibility for receiving and spending the funds raised and ensuring the project is delivered.