Here We Grow Birkenhead

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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

102%

Costs

Part time fixed term Project Co-ordinator: £5,450
Project management support £3,300
12 x young people garden/ construction sessions 2 hrs £2,115
12 x adult garden/ construction workshops 2hrs £2,115
Polytunnel inc installation £1,791
Timber for 8 raised beds & pergola and seating £1,632
Initial community engagement events 3 hour workshops x 4 £1,109
Community co-design workshops x 4 £1,109
3 x skips for waste removal £1,038
Outdoor cookery equipment, firepit, pots, pans, bowls, cups, utensils £1,013
Other + £7,614

Gardening topsoil £919

Metal garden shed 10' x 8' £870

Volunteer expenses £800

Gardening tools, safety gloves & equipment £754

Portaloo Hire £704

Refreshments £640

Celebration and community event (at end of project timeline) £472

Floodlights (for after school/ dark evenings) x 3 £381

Security & wildlife cameras, Solar powered, 4G x 2 £368

1000l IBC water cube storage £361

Instal of pond, water storage cube, shed, security cameras £359

8 fruit trees £327

Plants and vegetables £222

Promotional flyers £136

8 fruit trees containers £115

Art materials/ paper £95

Pond £90
Target: (inc. fees) £30,696

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.