Arkwright Meadows Community Gardens

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Arkwright Meadows Community Gardens is situated on Kirkby Gardens, off Wilford Grove, in the Meadows area of Nottingham. Winter opening hours (Oct - April) 12 noon to 4pm Tuesday to Friday and Saturday 10am - 4pm In 2001 a group of Meadows residents came together to improve a disused playing field strewn with rubbish. Work started to create the infrastructure of the community gardens in July 2003. The voluntary management group of local residents have worked hard to transform this part of the sports ground into an oasis in the heart of the Meadows. The aims of Arkwright Meadows Community Gardens are to be at the HEART of the Meadows HORTICULTURE: To grow reasonably priced organic fruit, vegetables and plants for sale to the Meadows community. EDUCATION: To be an educational resource for local school children and the Meadows community, focusing on horticulture, the environment and healthy eating. ACTIVITIES AND VOLUNTEERING: To put on a range of horticultural based activities for the Meadows community and foster volunteering as a valued and worthwhile activity. RECREATION: To be a place where Meadows residents of all ages can work, rest and play and where events that reflect the community’s cultural diversity can be celebrated. TRAINING: To provide vocational training for Meadows residents enabling them to enter into employment in horticulture. The values that underlie all the activities of the gardens are: INCLUSION, INSPIRATION and PRIDE. At the community gardens we...