Our Chelsea Project

East Midlands-based Community Interest Company (CIC), Pulp Friction, is at this year's RHS Chelsea Flower Show to demonstrate the power of inclusivity through gardening. 

The ‘Growing Skills Garden’ is one of the popular All About Plants category exhibits and reflects Pulp Friction’s mission to challenge perceptions of people with Learning Disabilities and/or Autism. 

Thanks to its sponsors, Project Giving Back, and partnership with designers, Will Dutch and Tin Tin Azure-Marxen of Dutch Landscape Architects, the Pulp Friction ‘Growing Skills Garden’ is giving people who attend the organisation’s day service the opportunity to be front and centre of a project that could reach millions. 

The inequalities people with a learning disability face in the world of work will be reflected in the garden; with five trees representing the fact that just 5% of adults with a learning disability are currently in paid employment - something Pulp Friction is committed to changing. In Nottinghamshire it is estimated that this figure falls to 2.8%.

How can you help? 

We invite you to become a small part of our Chelsea story by helping us to fund the costs of this massive undertaking. We are small but mighty and together you can help us make the most of this fantastic platform and help to create change for Learning Disabled and Autistic people, their families, carers and friends.

So far, thanks to our supporters, we have been able to ensure our Members have been able to participate and act as ambassadors for the Chelsea project throughout it's entirety. Now, we are calling on your help to support the relocation of the garden, and the organisation as a whole.

We are asking for donations to our crowdfunder to support:

• Relocation costs included in re-planting and re-building the garden at Stockhill Fire Station in Nottingham so it can live on and be enjoyed by Members, fire staff and the community alike.
• Tools, equipment, travel, workshops, tutor costs for future gardening projects and initiatives.
• Our organisation as a whole:
  • £15 pays for a Member to take their food safety certificate
  • £70 pays for a “cooking tool box kit”
  • £300 pays for a 4 hour smoothie bar workshop for a small organisation to benefit from