Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Get cash to help you grow your own
From the Haringey Council website
Haringey residents and community groups that want to have a go at growing their own food are invited to bid for money earmarked by London Mayor, Boris Johnson, for Sustainable Food Projects across London.
The latest Capital Growth Scheme small grants round is managed by London Food Link, part of Sustain-the alliance for better food and farming, and is Mayor Johnson's £75,000 fund to help Londoners grow
their own food in under-used areas of the capital. The target is to
create 2,012 growing spaces by 2012 in discarded patches of London,
tended by enthusiastic community gardeners.
Green fingered community groups in Haringey are urged to apply for small grants from this pot of money and are in with a good chance of success. This is in addition to the practical support being offered to
communities to help them to identify plots and join Capital Growth.
More than 300 plots have already been signed up across the city
including canal banks, schools, roofs, private gardens open to the
community and parks.
The Capital Growth small grants fund offers between £200-£1,500 to anyone who wants to create a new community food growing space. The grants will be on offer London-wide from 8 February - 1 March 2010 to
any group that wants to start a growing project or who has been growing
food on a plot started since 1 January 2009. The grants are also on
offer to anyone wanting to expand an existing food growing space.
telephone: 020 7837 1228
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Permalink Reply by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) on
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the target is to create 2,012 growing spaces by 2012 in discarded patches of London . . . . including canal banks . . . . and parks
as yer man said, 10% of Finsbury Park will give you 10% of that 2012 target, very sustainably.
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Permalink Reply by Liz on
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This fund is now open. People can apply online (www.capitalgrowth.org/apply) for sums between £200 and £1500 to turn underused land into a vegetable patch.
It is even possible to use grow bags on a concreted piece of ground to 'grow your- own'. Under the scheme Londoners receive both financial and practical support to produce food, such as access to training and expert advice.
Locally to us, The Castle Climbing Centre in Green Lanes, Haringey, is using £1,000 of Capital Growth cash to develop its one-acre garden into a place to grow food. Part of the garden will grow fruit, vegetables and herbal teas to supply the centre's café. And there are plans for bee hives and mini-plots for staff, centre members and the local community to grow their own vegetables too
Thanks to Andy Newman for this info
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A message from Adam Parvez, Environmental Resources Officer (Sustainable Food) at Haringey Council:
Hi All,
It would be great if you could let as many people as possible know of the capital growth funding round that closes on March 1st if you haven’t done so already. I would really like to push Haringey groups to apply as we recently committed to encouraging our share of the capital growth 2012 target (60 new growing spaces) and it would be a real shame to let this funding pass us by!
Send this link on to your networks, I’ll be at area assemblies over the next week or two [not Harringay and St Ann's, he's missed that one], and at the Going Green Conference and hopefully will get some more interest out there too.
Regards
Adam
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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Why can't he post this himself?
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