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I'm starting a garden club in my local primery school, the idea is to engage the children in growing food for the school, to respect there envorionment, and get activly envoled in out door activities. The insperation for this project came from the children themself. i started just by clearing up there outside space and taking to the children about growing plants and the inpartanse of looking after the enviroment. i then asked the children if they would like a garden club, over 100 kids said yes. The school is happy for me to go in and do a lunch time garden club, the kichen has said they will take any produce we grow and incorperate it into the menu, but i have very limeted knewledge of growing food, so this i learing curve for myself and the childen. we are all very exicted as most of the children dont have gardens, some have never seen a worm!!!!
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This sounds like a great project to get children excited about their food and even better that the kids have asked for this themselves. I think it's great that what the kids are going to grow will actually be incorporated into their school dinners
Junction49 is where young people can develop their own ideas for positive change in the community and students who wish to develop a voluntary project to benefit the community can access up to £750 to turn your idea into a reality. UEL is one of 12 Universities who are taking part in the scheme where students can access funding, training and support from your Volunteer Support Officer (Joey) to help you get your project up and running.
Check out:
http://www.junction49.co.uk/university/16/the_university_of_east_london/
You should check out this website; Greenhouse Sensations, as it's got lots of advice about how to grow your own vegetables as well as some information for schools:
http://www.greenhousesensation.co.uk/
Good Luck with the project, let us know if there is any help you need.
Sarah
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