We are so grateful to each and every one of you for your generous donation, and most recently to Barnet Council for covering 50% of our project's costs and for Pentland Brands for covering the remaining 10%. We are almost done with the planting, if you'd like to join us tomorrow, please come to Torrington Park Health Centre tomorrow, Friday 14:30pm. Please watch our video which sums up all the various parts of our pollinator-friendly bulb initiative: https://youtu.be/0mkAletyKFw Here's a little reminder: Between September to November 2022, the Finchley N3 N12 Pollinator Project, in collaboration with London Energy Gardens, have initiated community learning and planting days. The activities included: - An educational webinar teaching about bulbs, and how they can help pollinators (to watch: https://youtu.be/eH3mR3bf41k) - Community planting at FOUR community gardens (Finchley Memorial Hospital, Torrington Park Health Centre, Finchley Central Tube Station and Trinity Church North Finchley) - TWO "plant and take-home" activities (which included planting three layers of bulbs in each pot, aka "Bulb Lasagne"). These activities were funded via a Spacehive crowdfunding campaign: - Members of the public (Barnet Residents) 40% - Barnet Council 50% - Pentland Brands 10% In addition, the following organisations have donated and lent us materials: - Finchley Nurseries - Colindale Community Garden - Incredible Edible Barnet - Garden Transformations Please join our email distribution list to hear about our Spring initiatives https://mailchi.mp/8abb63ec19b1/regis... We are on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/14286... NextDoor https://nextdoor.co.uk/g/60sd3vx5q/ Twitter: @ecoshowandtell Thank you so much to everyone who was involved in the organising, planting, donating and more! We truly appreciate it! Alison, Deena, Holly and Shiri

A quick thanks to everyone who came today to the planting at Trinity Church, North Finchley! We planted so many bulbs at the church's yard and have done our best to proof the plot against squirrles and foxes. We also had many takers at the "plant and take home" table (le d by Holly Pringle) as well as young artists working on a gorgeous sign (led by artist Alison Sharp of Re.New Crafts).Hope you can join us on Saturday at the Finchley Central Tube Station's Garden (Southbound Platform), register here if you haven't done so: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pollinator-friendly-bulbs-take-home-planting-workshop-tickets-429752530387 and again thank you so much for supporting our project!!

Last Sunday we had to make a decision to postpone the event, after the Met Office forecasted thunderstorms at 12PM and have warned people to stay home. We are now announcing the new date for Finchley Central Tube Station "plant and take home": November 5th, 10:30AM-12PM. Please register here if you haven't registered yet: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pollinator-friendly-bulbs-take-home-planting-workshop-tickets-429752530387 We will also plant bulbs this Sunday at Trinity Church North Finchley! The community there have cleared up a gorgeous plot and have invited us to plant the bulbs. Please join us there, we will also offer the "plant and take home" activities at the same time, so you can decide if to do the community planting and/or make your own pot to take home. Registration is recommended but not mandatory: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/450547458577 Hope you can join us for one of the events and in any case thank you so much again for supporting this project. Another overdue thanks is to: Daniella Levene who lent us lots of trowels and scoops for the project Garden Transformation landscaping for donating lots of pots Warm regards, Alison, Deena, Holly and Shiri