St Peter's Community Garden Project
 Volunteers from Sbectrwm
to visit our new website - Some photographs of other people involved with the project -
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It began in 2008 with a vision, a hand-saw and a garden spade, a simple one really, to create a garden adjacent to the Community Hall at St Peter's Fairwater, a garden for the community by the community. Just a few years on, what has been achieved is a credit to the Church and local community; a beautiful, community garden, involving and engaging a wide cross-section of local people and community groups and offering training, skills and personal development.
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Spring in the Garden ...
Come along to visit our Community Garden - the gates will be open to visitors between 9.30am and 3.30pm Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from April - October, all are welcome - come and have a look around - people will be on hand to answer any questions. We'd love to see you there!
Summer at last ...
May I introduce our partners -
Tidy Town - believing in us and financially getting us started.
Youth Offenders - easily excluded but here valued, challenged and so included.
BCTV - all weather path layers and pond makers.
Fire Service - Pond filling with a smile (thankfully no call outs in the process).
Communities First - encouraging, networking, funding.
Woodland Trust - Royal visit arrangers and tree hedging providers.
Brian the hired hand - solid, willing, reliable, hard working.
Parishioners & Friends - digging, weeding, bulbing, making coffee, at the cutting edge of the lawn, paying for trees.
Sbectrwm - wheel barrowing, supplying plants, building beds for growing vegetables.
Ty Bronna - off with the latest Nikes in with the Council loaned shovel.
Michael our Architect - providing plans that everyone will be able to read without a compass or a satnav.
Fairwater Primary School Eco Group - hands on learning, ladybird spotting, looking for fish but finding interesting insects happily mating. “Miss what’s…”
St Peter’s Worshipping Community - surrounding the project with prayer.
Lord Mayor of Cardiff - Planting Bardsey heritage tree, all gold chain and muddy shovel.
Ministers of the Realm - (both Houses) given spades to use not pose with!
Young Conservatives Social Action Team - dug in for a week off with the brogues on with muddy wellies.
Expert advisors from many departments (with free advice) Writers, reflecters, illustrators, coffee and tea makers, photographers, grant finders, display arrangers - sharing the creativity..sustaining the action.
And where is the PROJECT MANAGER I hear you ask? In the pond looking for gold (for the Hall refurb.) but coming up with invasive weeds……but in his busy head - (and on his computer) a lot of networking hopefuls!! And all the time singing his mantra: It can be done, It can be done….
Youth Offenders - easily excluded but here valued, challenged and so included.
BCTV - all weather path layers and pond makers.
Fire Service - Pond filling with a smile (thankfully no call outs in the process).
Communities First - encouraging, networking, funding.
Woodland Trust - Royal visit arrangers and tree hedging providers.
Brian the hired hand - solid, willing, reliable, hard working.
Parishioners & Friends - digging, weeding, bulbing, making coffee, at the cutting edge of the lawn, paying for trees.
Sbectrwm - wheel barrowing, supplying plants, building beds for growing vegetables.
Ty Bronna - off with the latest Nikes in with the Council loaned shovel.
Michael our Architect - providing plans that everyone will be able to read without a compass or a satnav.
Fairwater Primary School Eco Group - hands on learning, ladybird spotting, looking for fish but finding interesting insects happily mating. “Miss what’s…”
St Peter’s Worshipping Community - surrounding the project with prayer.
Lord Mayor of Cardiff - Planting Bardsey heritage tree, all gold chain and muddy shovel.
Ministers of the Realm - (both Houses) given spades to use not pose with!
Young Conservatives Social Action Team - dug in for a week off with the brogues on with muddy wellies.
Expert advisors from many departments (with free advice) Writers, reflecters, illustrators, coffee and tea makers, photographers, grant finders, display arrangers - sharing the creativity..sustaining the action.
And where is the PROJECT MANAGER I hear you ask? In the pond looking for gold (for the Hall refurb.) but coming up with invasive weeds……but in his busy head - (and on his computer) a lot of networking hopefuls!! And all the time singing his mantra: It can be done, It can be done….
