Volunteering
We are currently in the process of recruiting a core of regular volunteers. This will be done in conjunction with regular open garden sessions.
Visitors can come into the garden and take part in gardening activities, help in the day to day running of the garden and helping the garden to achieve its aims. Residents will also have the opportunity to use the poly tunnel to sow their own seeds and once established take away to grow at home.
Once established we will look into expanding the involvement of volunteers in helping to improve other sites across the parish that are in need of improvement. Low and slow growing shrubs grown at the garden will be distributed across the parish with the aim of reducing regular maintenance of shrub beds, around trees and street furniture.
The main challenges with this, as with most community projects, are that weekday hours do not always coincide with community availability. Therefore larger events have to be run on weekends or school holidays to ensure participation.
Community Payback
Our Community Payback team is an unpaid work requirement managed by the Probation Service designed to improve local areas affected by crime.
The Community Payback team has been involved in various projects, such as cleaning up public spaces and assisting with landscaping.
The Community Payback team have continued to use the Woughton Community Garden site on a biweekly basis primarily as a base.
