Dear friend, We’re delighted to announce that we’ve secured a further 3 years of funding from the National Lottery Community Fund for our new Growing Together project, starting in May 2023 🌟 The funding, worth ÂŁ225,000 over the 3 years, will enable us to continue the activities previously funded in the Gateway to the Gardens project…
Dear friend, We’re delighted to share our biggest-ever range of workshops with you this Spring, featuring practical gardening and allotmenteering advice for beginners, as well as floristry crafts, and a special full-day beekeeping taster. Thinking ahead to Mother’s Day, we offer custom gift cards that make it easy for you to gift experiences to friends and family.…
Gardening is the healthiest of all recreations, as it calls into healthy activity every faculty of body and mind, and is therefore of especial importance to artisans, persons employed in sedentary occupations, and those who live in thickly populated districts, and their families. You would be forgiven if you believed that this statement was made…
Dear friend, Have you seen Spring bulbs emerging yet? It won’t be long before we can celebrate the first daffodil of the year, shortly followed by bright tulips, delicate cherry blossom, and huge magnolias 🌸 The long, verdant leaves of these daffodil shoots in the photo above were spotted on our Nursery garden. Last weekend…
Dear friend, Thank you to all of you who voted for us but we are sad to share that we didn’t win the Severn Trent Award for our Growing Wild project. This would have significantly increased our support for wildlife on-site and the number of people we could have involved in our Urban Nature activity.…
Dear friend, A new STAA project at Urban Nature has been shortlisted for a Severn Trent Community Fund Gold Award and we need your help to make sure we win it.The award total is ÂŁ20,000 to support our ‘Growing Wild’ project to enhance inner-city green spaces here at St Ann’s Allotments. The awards are chosen by public vote…