North East Skillshare Event: Involving the Community with Your Project
Sun 23 Jun 2024 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Scotswood Community Garden, NE156TT
North East Skillshare Event: Involving the Community with Your Project
Sun 23 Jun 2024 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Scotswood Community Garden, NE156TT
Description
Join us for a day at the award winning Scotswood Garden in Newcastle Upon Tyne to learn about how to engage the local community and to encourage them to participate in your project.
Your hosts for the day are Scotswood Wellbeing Garden Officer Leanne Defty, Play and Youth manager Nicky Sargeant and Trustee Chris Warburton Brown who has a background in permaculture research and urban community development.
Find out about the different projects at Scotswood, including their Over 55's and dementia friendly gardening groups
Learn from experienced Scotswood Garden staff, as they share how they engage with diverse and hard to reach groups
Take a 1.5hr tour of the 2.5acre garden and plant nursery illustrating the range of habitats and areas created and how they share the space with the local wildlife
Hear some of our community stories and how you can use this to engage people with your project Enjoy a delicious lunchMeet and network with other project leaders
Tickets cost £20 per person / £12 per person for Permaculture Association members. Find your discount code in your members area of our website and in your Community/ Projects and LAND newsletter.
We are deliberately keeping this event to a maximum of 30 places, so that there will be plenty of opportunity to get to know the group and to have your individual project needs met. Due to this limited amount of places on this course, we are restricting booking to a maximum of two people from each organisation.
Your ticket includes lunch and refreshments on the day. Please let us know of any dietary, accessibility or wellbeing needs that you have and we will communicate this with your event host.
We will send out an email with all of the practical information about what to bring, travel arrangements, accessibility and the venue closer to the date of the event.
Location
Scotswood Community Garden, NE156TT