Bolton Community Kitchen Allotment (BCKA)

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小组人数：

8

去年的积极参与者：

20

The project started in 2021 with a massive programme of clearing and preparing a very overgrown and neglected site before rebuilding of beds, growing and work spaces could be put in place. The first real planting of the allotment started in 2022 with a very small team of services users and volunteers led by Gareth Bradbury. Sadly Gareth dies unexpectedly in December 2023 and the site lay fallow while BCK put out pleas for volunteers with gardening / allotmenteering experience. Six new volunteers put themselves forward for the task and became the core team who started restoring the site (again!) with the help and support of volunteers and one or two service users who were able to use this experience as a way of coming to terms with his death. We are in our first year, but have already made inroads.

开始分组：

Initially around Summer 2021, but went into hiatus after the founder died in 2023. It had it's second and current iteration starting in March 2024

有偿角色？

没有

法律结构：

慈善机构

你们的小组有多活跃？

非常活跃

现场项目：

• 社区成长
• 其他食品项目
• 自然
• 社区中心或活动
• 节日、集市或活动
• 艺术/创造力
• 社区远景规划/想象力工作
• 建立当地网络
• 地方经济或新经济项目
• 福祉或内心过渡
• 社会正义/公正过渡活动
• 青年或教育项目
• 共享、修复或再利用

BCKA is the collective of volunteers brought together to meet one of the initial and overriding purposes of Bolton Community Kitchen; that is, the growong of  fresh, local fruit and vegetables using organic gardening principles of working within natural systems and cycles, using natural ways to promote a complete healthy, productive and sustainable growing environment.

The volunteers share the same ideology, work communally as a team,  pool our  horticultural and/or gardening knowledge and experiences of collective growing, allotmenteering and gardening along with our practicical, organisational and management skills to honour the founder, Gareth Bradbury’s dream of creating a space to grow food and provide a welcoming, calming, safe, nurturing, sociable, enjoyable communal and educational cultivation space for the for volunteers and service users of Bolton Community Kitchen, and the wider local community to come together to grow, learn new skills from each other and by hosting educational opportunities, develop and enrich social skills,  experience the emotional and healing benefits that being in a green and growing space provides, to raise awareness of the benefits of growing, taking a more organic and non-traditional approach to outdoor social spaces and the wonderful outdoors.

We will reach out to the wider local communities, schools and other voluntary sector organisations to create an inclusive environment where everyone can experience the well-being and healing properties that growing food in a communal and sociable, mutually educational space brings.