Some of our former community project success stories include:
Collaboration with artist-blacksmith Richard Bent, local children, community leaders and youth workers to create seats for the Exford Avenue precinct, Harefield, Southampton.
Support and advice for local history project at Woodlands Community School, Harefield, Southampton.
Funding of School Grounds Development Plan by landscape architect, Jane Gilbert, for Woodlands Community School.
Advice and plans for the Zone Youth and Community Centre, Southampton.
Support and advice for the creation of the Ropewalk Community Garden, Southampton.
Support and advice for the creation of a garden at The Clovelly Centre, a community centre for Asian people in the centre of Southampton.
Creation of a garden at the Andover Crisis Centre (a refuge for abused women and their children), in collaboration with the local Rotary Club.
Black Heritage Community Centre Caribbean Patio, Southampton.
Woolston Millennium Garden, Southampton.
Fifth Street Neighbourhood Community Garden, Portsmouth.
Royal Victoria Country Park Sensory Garden, Southampton.
Orchard Close Respite Home & Godbey House Children’s Home, Hayling Island.
Old Coldeast Residential Home Sensory Garden, Sarisbury Green, Fareham.
Advising on Southampton Central Parks Heritage Lottery Fund bid.
Advising on Gosport’s Heritage Lottery Bid for the Regeneration of Urban Parks.
Advising on maritime planting, Lee-on-Solent.
Advising on a sensory garden at The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association, Southampton.
Seminar, ‘New City Parks and Gardens’, with national and local speakers, sharing a concern to identify unloved open spaces in need of enhancement.
Liaison with HGT’s Education Committee on the School Grounds Millennium Awards Scheme (won by Stockbridge Primary School).
Restoration of the sunken garden at Holly Hill Park, Fareham and support for Friends’ group.
Support for Peter Maunder’s model allotment at Down Grange, Basingstoke.
