RELEASE DATE 22nd September 2006
TITLE Green Volunteers Make Record
 

For immediate release

WHAT: The recording of flora, fauna and historical buildings by volunteers.
WHEN: 7th and 8th October 2006
WHERE: St Anns Allotment, St Anns, Nottingham

Volunteers are getting ready to help local regeneration charity Groundwork Greater Nottingham in a unique project to record information about St Anns Allotment. This is the first time a recording exercise of this type has ever been attempted on the allotment, and forms part of a much larger regeneration project involving several local organisations.

Groundwork is currently trying to recruit 40 volunteers to help with the exercise which is due to take place on 7th and 8th October. It is intended that each of the 670 plots on the allotment will be visited and a record of flora, fauna and other interesting aspects will be made. Another team of volunteers will be manning computers, entering the data as it is collected into a database.

St Anns Allotments are Grade II listed allotments in the inner city of Nottingham. Once "detached urban pleasure gardens", they are now used by many gardeners. In addition to this, the site is also the largest allotment in the world. Judith Bagguley, Project Team Leader at Groundwork Greater Nottingham said, "The allotment is a fantastic resource for all who live in the city, and Groundwork, together with Renewal Trust and all our other partners, are working hard to ensure that this continues for years to come."

Organisations involved in the overall regeneration project are Renewal Trust, Groundwork Greater Nottingham, Necta, STAA, Nottingham City Council, Ecoworks, Urban Nature and Tanc.

For more information, contact Sally Philpott on 0115 9788212.
 
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Background Information enclosed
Please note that all our projects involve people and communities and many have to be seen to be believed. They each have very different real life stories of transformation, they are very photogenic, and in order to continually improve our communities, we will be delighted to share more of these with you, including fielding interviews and making visits available to you

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

GGN has been established for 14 years

In a typical year we Groundwork Greater Nottingham works with communities to:-
· Develop and deliver at least 100 new projects
· Deliver over 4000 person days of youth activity
· Engage with over 200 local businesses
· Work in partnership with at least 80 schools
· Deliver 40 locally significant environmental improvement schemes
· Deliver 2 regionally significant conferences a year

We are currently working on 55 live projects

Nationally, Groundwork is one of the UK’s leading social and environmental partnership organisation’s, working with people, local authorities and businesses to promote economic and social regeneration by improving the local environment. Through it’s network of around 50 Independent Trust’s around the UK, from Tyneside to South Wales, Northern Ireland to Hackney, Groundwork uses the environment to improve their quality of life. Groundwork is an independent charity, which involves 60,000 adult volunteers and over 120,000 school children each year in local environmental projects. From small community schemes to major regional and national programmes, Groundwork’s local Trust’s work in partnership with local people, local authorities and businesses to promote sustainable developments in their local area.

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Groundwork Greater Nottingham
Denman Street East
Notingham
NG7 3GX

T: 0115 9788212
F: 0115 9787496
E: gn@groundwork.org.uk