RELEASE DATE 28 October 2005
TITLE MAYOR LAUNCHES LOTTERY GARDEN
 

On Thursday 27th October, Lord Mayor of Nottingham, Councillor Mohammad Munir launched Groundwork Greater Nottingham's Windmill Garden project. The launch of the project was part of Groundwork Greater Nottingham's Apple Day Celebrations. The Lord Mayor was shown around the community garden and saw the work that needs to be done, before officially cutting a ribbon at the entrance to the garden to launch the project.

Children from the International Children's Club and Carlton Kids Out Of School Club and members of the local community watched the launch and attended the Apple Day event.

Judith Bagguley, Project Team Leader for Groundwork Greater Nottingham said, "The day was incredibly successful. We had lots of activities as part of the day, and the great thing is that the children and adults enjoyed themselves. Some of the people who came today, had never been to an allotment before this event, and as a result they are now interested in getting involved in the Windmill Community Garden project."

The Windmill Community Garden project is a two year project which has been funded by Big Lottery

For more information, please contact Richard Chamberlain at Groundwork Greater Nottingham 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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