Creating a Cherry Tree Walk @ West Acton

Funded on
24 Oct 2017

To create a peaceful Cherry Tree Walk and Wildflower Meadow on our central reservation. We want to make it beautiful again and restore its heritage!

£51,580 Raised of £47,702

81 Backers

108%

Costs

Clear existing shrubbery @ £18 per square meter £26,100
Wildflower Seed & Soil Mix (wildflower earth UK Native) 750 sq m £6,500
Trees 15 @ £200 £3,000
Design costs £3,000
Rockery Stones 35cm x 25cm approx 20 pieces and/or stakes/posts £2,000
Pruning existing healthy trees £2,000
Supply and spread soil 10 cubic metres £1,000
Marketing £500
Donor Plaque - Engraved £500
Spring bulbs £500
Target: (inc. fees) £47,701

http://www.hhgera.com

We are a self-managed estate in west London, covering just over 600 houses and flats. HHGERA is open to everyone who lives here and looks after the shared gardens and service roads belonging to the estate. We do so on a shoestring, as the £70 a year charge for each house barely covers the minimum routine maintenance plus essentials such as insurance. Separate funding must be raised for any improvements. Our most ambitious project to date was to restore a badly overgrown central garden, between two sides of Princes Gardens. We crowd funded this through Spacehive and successfully implemented the project. Literally tons of dead and dying trees and shrubs were removed and an old rockery was cleared with the help of a digger. Road safety was improved through opening up the crossing points. 25 new trees and dozens of shrubs were planted, along with areas of wildflower meadow and a rose bed at the southern end of Princes Gardens. Now we are launching a new project, to restore a sadly run down Rose Garden. We want to make this a safe, beautiful place that will enhance biodiversity and be a focus for community events in the future.

Project Owner: aNJA4siJf7 The Project Owner takes legal responsibility for receiving and spending the funds raised and ensuring the project is delivered.

Contractors : John Ward Garden & Landscape Design Ltd,Abel Gardeners The team responsible for building or installing the project.