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My name is Tina Griffiths and I’m the extended schools co-ordinator for the Birley Family
of schools based at Birley Community College in Sheffield.
The project which has got the funding is for the ‘sow and grow’ project which is going
to be a community allotment based on the Birley school site but involving the whole community.
It will be involving tenants and residents associations and community groups in the area
as well as grandparents and parents from all the schools around.
The money is going to pay for us to clear the site and get a poly tunnel, a greenhouse,
some tools and also the raised beds because it is on a concrete site.
I don’t think we will be growing anything exotic but we are hoping to grow lots of different
vegetables like carrots, turnips, potatoes, probably tomatoes, we might have a go at peppers.
I’m hoping also to do some sort of competition like whose got the biggest ...turnip or whatever
something like that. We are hoping to run some family learning classes, some adult education
classes and also to get some of our students aged 10-11 to take vocational qualifications
and to use the allotment as part of that. We want to start in half term with a community
event and get it started and actually clear the site. We want some pupils from the school
and perhaps the primary school as well as other people in the community to come in during
half term and kind of launch the project in a really low key way.
I am hoping that the project will overcome the separation between the older people and
the school age children and that you know the stereotypes and things that exist will
be gotten rid of and people will have a wider understanding of the different groups in society.
We all felt really excited when we got the funding – it was a really great day to find
out we had got the award and that we could go forward with the project. �