Funded by: City of Edinburgh Council, Green Action Trust

Outputs:

• Engagement with the local community and key local stakeholders, including Cameron House to help produce a design.
• Run an engagement programme of volunteer activities with the local community / core group to deliver elements of the design. These activities include open days in the garden to engage the local community and local school, orchard tree planting, gardening workshops, grow your own food workshops, skill sharing workshops.
• Delivery of community gardening activities, including growing and gardening sessions in the community garden for people with little or no experience of gardening. These sessions will include all the fundamentals in getting a community growing space up and running with the use of raised beds, preparing the ground for planting, growing a variety of produce – salad leaves, strawberries, tomatoes, fruit trees, fruit bushes, harvesting the produce and showing how the food that has been harvested can in turn be used.
• Project manage construction works of capital items, to be delivered by contractors i.e. new gates, access improvements, through a competitive tendering process which includes quality and price.
• Support and train key volunteers to be able to lead future growing and planting sessions and activities with the local community.
• Provide tools and materials for the local group to use as part of making it a more sustainable project going forward.
• Fundraising for additional grant income to deliver elements of the design. i.e. orchard. Assist a constituted core group with smaller fundraising applications.

Outcomes:

• An engaged local community in the development of a unused greenspace
• Improved biodiverse greenspace
• Improved skills and knowledge of the local community
• Create a group that would be constituted and be able to lease the space from the Council in due course.