Springburn Family Gardening Project

Aim

Springburn is an inner-city area of multiple deprivation and families live in high rise flats without access to gardens.

Springburn Family Gardening Programme to deliver outdoor activities with families to promote healthy eating, enable food growing and to prevent food poverty.  

This funding will support two new gardening groups – a parents and children under 5 session during school time, and an afterschool children’s gardening club. Also, family and children gardening days will take place in school holidays. 

This will increase opportunities for families to access weekly gardening sessions and develop their food growing skills. 

This is a new initiative in response to recent requests from the local community in Springburn to improve access to the local allotment. Parents are very keen to engage with garden activities, and to encourage their children to participate in all gardening activities we can offer. They enjoy spending time with their children enjoying themselves outdoors.

Families are looking for outdoor activities, and access to safe green space.  We are encouraging  parents to utilise our garden space, to become involved with gardening activities, or simply to have somewhere to have a cup of tea and bowl of soup, which doesn’t cost anything.

Partnership working with the Family Support Worker in the local primary, has further highlighted this need for local family gardening sessions. 

At least 35 families have expressed support for these events, and have requested children and family sessions in our gardening sites.

We will continue to engage with local schools and nurseries, as well as partner organisations, to increase the number of families accessing gardening sessions.

This project successfully funded on 20th September 2022