Spring Work Days are scheduled to start in early March 2023. Dates will be published soon. We usually meet at the garden at 1pm and continue until 4.30pm. We provide gloves and gardening tools, but please feel free to bring your own if you prefer. Please wear weatherproof clothes and […]
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Administration, Accounts and Fundraising Volunteer Roles These positions take a few hours a week, more if you want to develop the project, less if you want to keep it functional. The committee meets once every 3 months, and the gardeners meet weekly, or twice weekly in summer, bi weekly or […]
Happy to remind people of our Near Neighbours funded Bbq this Saturday to bring together all the projects we have visited over the last few months. Looking forward to seeing lots of friends. Spoken words from various projects will be a exhibition of Community solidarity and action.
Felt privileged to work with NSC this week. Day one we discussed the asylum system and how people are treated. Garden members, facilitated by Almamy gave stories and asked challengees to campaign on issues important to their hearts. They had a tour of the garden learning about how activities provide […]
The garden is growing and developing every week, garden members have been working with coordinators, as trainee coordinators. We now have a rota, and task list that gets done. Today Sarah and Ali were leading the day, theres was lots of weeding from Anusha, Akin, Neisha and Najma, Charles took the […]
This Saturday from 11am to 1pm at Raddlebarn Road, Pat is leading one of a few wellbeing workshops: photo therapy, leading to an exhibition for refugee week in June. You will be looking at images,video and other ideas. Gardening starts from 1pm and ends 3pm.
Friday 31st March, 11 – 2. At Selly oak methodist church. Learn skills to create your own apple trees. Food will be served. Bus pass paid for. Some trees we create on the day will be sold to raise funds for kushinga. Other trees will be planted in public spaces […]
With the purpose of building community resilience and integration, the Mother Gardens project has developed a scheme this year to work with refugee and migrant groups who grow food, and connect them with local land-based community projects around the city. Kushinga Garden is a key participating project in this scheme. […]