GROWTH with a capital ‘G’ is happening for the Stoke Road Allotments Association after the group scooped a grant from the National Lottery Community Fund.
The cash will see the association develop Bromsgrove’s first Peace Garden, which will be designed to reflect a diversity and inter-generational agenda.
Situated in Aston fields, the allotment members hope The Peace Garden will provide a calm, social meeting place for visitors and allotment tenants alike, and that local infant and junior schools will use the garden as part of an eco and sustainability curriculum.
The funding will allow members to install a disabled toilet, resurface areas to accommodate wheelchair users, build weather shelters and develop a new polytunnel.
Bob Shipman, chair of the association, said: “All this means that there are now so many more groups of people – residents from care homes, infant school children and refugees newly arrived in Bromsgrove, who can be welcomed onto our site.”
The £9,000 grant is also a first for Community Boost in Bromsgrove.
The Boost, which helps voluntary and community organisations to access grant funding, has generated over £1.3million in grants for community groups in Worcestershire, but this is its first grant for a Bromsgrove-based organisation.
Keith Slater, from Community Boost, added it was a real pleasure to see such a development taking place within the town.
To find out more about the project and the Stoke Road Allotments Association, visit the Stoke Road Allotments Facebook page.
