Project name
Crop-a-LotCategory
Area regenerationRegion
South WestTown or Village
Bournemouth
Our allotment is based in the heart of the community at Townsend youth centre. Through using the gardening project as a tool to engage the young people we will be educating them in the benefits and importance of having fresh fruit and veg as a part of their daily diet, recycling household wastes and solutions to a brighter community by promoting and highlighting greener ways of living.
We will achieve this by utilising various methods for reusing and recycling. Compost bins for vegetable and fruit scraps and rain water collectors will provide a natural resource for the growing fruit and vegetables. Other things we shall encourage is litter picks in the area. This will encourage the community to work together as a team and produce a new positive outcome, making the neighbourhood a safer, cleaner and greener place to live.
To support this we will investigate the effects of littering. We will use our knowledge to engage with the members of the community in a relevant way to explain the consequences. This will encourage the prevention of fly tipping.
The young people taking part, be accredited with a Bournemouth Award as evidence of thier hard work. This award affirms their learning and awards their efforts and acheivements. It has been very sucessful in increasing young peoples self -confidence motivation and ability to acheive.
Comments (13)
Amazing project, so well tailored to the needs of the local community and a fabulous way to encourage young people to engage in the vital process of sustainable living. Good work Crop-a-Lot!!
I think it is important the future generation understands the importance and pleasure of sowing and nurturing your own produce it gives them a purpose and might have a beneficial long term affect
This looks like a really worthwhile project on lots of different levels.
Helping the young helps society in general and benefits those who may have low esteem to see that other people appreciate their efforts
what a wicked idea getting young people to have their own garden, which they have to look after, and they get to cook what ever they grow.. love it...
Good job crop a lot.. :)
I am locky enough to have a garden that I enjoy working in. Would like others to have similar enjoyment.
Encouraging children to grow and eat their own vegtables and become closer to nature is something close to my own heart.
because healthy eating in early years is the basis for long term physical and mental health thus preventing many socio economic problems in the future. Getting the children to work on an allotment is good for building positive relationships, keeps the children off the streets therefore less likely to get involved in crime and provides very cheap food for live.
It's a wonderful way of giving youngsters a confidence boost whilst helping both the local environment and helping to reduce global warming as a whole. The sense of achievement and fulfilment that the participants will get from producing their own food will give them a feeling of self-worth as well as a respect for their community as a whole.
Brilliant idea, My children and I love gardening, and cooking sounds like it could be really good
its good to teach yougsters the benefit of helthy living and healthy food
I think a lot of young people today have lost their way. This is a way for them to achieve something.
This project does something to break not only the cycle of deprivation (by showing these young people the economic and health benefits of growing your own food) but will help to give them the self-esteem that comes from personal achievement.