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.
