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Spital Garden will grow again
Elizabeth Hall on the Spital Estate in Newbiggin has passed the initial stage of applying for a grant from the Living Spaces fund. Phil Macari, an enabler for the Living Spaces programme, who has been working closely with the Residents Association said: "Living Spaces provides grants to help people improve open spaces in their neighbourhood and create valuable places for the whole community to enjoy. It can help people create and improve a huge range of spaces from play areas and community gardens through to village greens and city farms.
The grant for £6,300 will be used to create a new censory garden around the hall. Once the hard landscape works, which will be carried out by a local Newbiggin firm, are complete, the garden will be planted with a wide variety of plants chosen to stimulate the senses and encourage birds and wildlife. Ivan Hewitt is helping members of the residents association in deciding which plants to use in their new garden. Ivan is the Community Environment Worker for Wansbeck, a joint post between Greening for Growth and Wansbeck District Council, supported by the Fair Shares programme of the New Opportunities Fund to improve the Elizabeth Hall for the benefit of the local community, and they have already received a grant from the Sustainable Communities Fund enabling them to remove old rotten windows and install double glazing. The association is in the process of applying again to the fund for a new floor for the building.
Are you involved in a community project which you would like to publicise in the next Newbiggin Life newsletter? If so contact Roberta on 01670 812596 or email roberta.buchanan@newbigginlife.co.uk
