16 small grants given to local community gardening projects

As part of the May gardening creative challenge small grants were given to local community gardens.

Gardening symbolises hope, and as Audrey Hepburn famously said “To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow”. We want Lewisham to grow! As a legacy to the We Are Lewisham gardening Creative Challenge we are delighted to be able to offer 16 small grants to local community gardening projects.

• Young Lewisham Project
• Goldsmiths Community Centre
• The Somerville
• Manor House Gardens community flowerbed /
• We can dig it at MHG
• Lewisham Salvation Army
• Sabina Nessa Memorial Garden at Rushey Green Primary
• Community Sensory Garden – Forster Memorial Park
• Evelyn community garden
• Breakspears Mews Community Garden
• Downham Matters Corner Planting Project
• Friends of Brookmill Park
• Welcome @ St Marks
• St Mary’s Therapeutic Garden
• Dragonflies and Lavender
• Friends of Frendsbury Gardens
• Sanctuary Garden at Lewisham Refugee and Migrant Network

There are some fantastic stories that speak to our London Borough of Culture themes – everything from a request for children’s gardening gloves, to a wormery, to Rushey Green School wanting to start a commemorative garden.

Grants were chosen by a small independent selection committee and were awarded to the applicants who can demonstrate that the funds will be used for community projects benefitting a wide range of participants, fulfilling a need and celebrating gardening as a creative act.

Well done to all involved.