Community Garden Project

Background

The Community Garden Project is part of the Project funded by the National Lottery Community Fund.

The aim of the group is to get carers and those they care for involved in nature as a way of promoting mental, physical and emotional well-being.

It started with just a few carers sharing ideas and now we have links with over 8 local community projects helping to connect! Including members from Pure Vegetable Well-Being, Horticulture Wales and Incredible Edible.

Get involved!

We’re a small but perfectly formed group of volunteer enthusiasts (carers and ex carers) that come together monthly to help steer and plan activities, share ideas and generally motivate others to get outdoors and involved in garden projects.

If you’d like to get involved please get in touch!

Contact: enquiries@newcis.org.uk

join our facebook group

Hints and tips

If you germinate seeds before sowing you'll get slightly quicker produce and you'll be able to separate the weaker seeds to get better growth
Save money on planters by using things round the house like toilet roll holders or egg shells for the seedlings
Don’t worry if you think you need more sun or heat you can create your own little greenhouse by placing a plastic bag over the pot/tray, tied at the top
If you need any help or advice we've lots of handy growers here to help!

Tutorial – Germinating seeds

Partnerships and memberships

Denbighshire

Flintshire

Wrexham

Social Farms & Gardens

NEWCIS are now members of Social Farms & Gardens, a UK wide charity supporting communities to farm, garden and grow together. Their mission is to improve the health and wellbeing of individuals, communities and the environment through nature-based activities. As members NEWCIS has access to a whole host of resources.

Use their online map here to find out more about their work in your area!

Mindful Meadow at Chirk Castle

NEWCIS have been involved in helping to create the mindful meadow from supporting the initial bid proposal to totem design and tree planting. Now its all complete, we’re so proud of what’s been achieved for all to enjoy.

Stori Cymru

The community Garden group was approached in April 2024 by a support worker at Stori Cymru – a local housing association providing supported living for 16 – 25 year olds. They were after some advice about improving their small communal garden and ideally starting a vegetable patch to encourage healthy eating. Our group of volunteers were only too keen to help out and we made a site visit in July to get them started. We look forward to seeing how it all goes! Pictures below…