This year, the Trust has delivered community gardening activities based at local schools, nurseries and community projects in Paisley.
We are providing direct support to children, teachers/support staff and local residents who volunteer to enable them to enhance their social skills, self-confidence and work experience. We hold workshops with practical gardening tasks using potato growing, providing access to raised beds.
The project has worked with children living within the Paisley North and Central area to teach them where food comes from and how to care for their local environment.
A wider aspect of the project activity includes working with people on unpaid work orders who have benefited from meaningful work making cotton bags for the harvested potatoes.
People on unpaid work orders have also been involved in plans to help improve the existing raised beds in school garden spaces, making the area more attractive and promoting maintenance of local greenspaces for use by all ages.
This project is possible thanks to the grant funding from the Foyle Foundation.
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