Stroud Valleys Project - Garden Leader Pack

Welcome to the Get Growing, Get Cooking, Garden Leader Pack

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The Get Growing Project, funded by the Local Food strand of the National Lottery, was created in 2011 to support schools in Stroud District, Gloucestershire, to grow, harvest, eat and sell their own food.

The aim of this pack is to provide everything that a novice garden club leader, be they a teacher or volunteer, will need to run a successful, safe & fun gardening club. However, it is also designed so that the more experienced leader and classroom teacher, as well as parent at home, can come to it for ideas for essions/lessons/gardening with children. It was also developed to be used in conjunction with our get Growing, Get Cooking Gardening Club Seasonal Calendar poster which provides an overview to the school gardening year and our website which has even more resources.

The pack is not the product of one person alone, but of a team, and I would like to acknowledge the invaluable support and input of colleagues, Julie Wickham, Emily Janke-Pearson and freelance illustrator, Claire Barker.

I hope you enjoy using this pack as much as we did developing and producing it.

Happy Gardening!

Tamsin Bent, Get Growing Project Officer

Get Growing Leader Pack downloads

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Get Growing - Garden Leader Pack 13 MB

Download just the chapter you need (pdf files).

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Thank you for bearing with us while we get things in place to allow you to continue shopping while the shop is closed. Although we are still working on a click and collect service, we have an interim solution which will enable you to buy your refills and other regular items while we are locked down.

We can accept orders via email (preferred) or phone, for later collection. Payment will be by card only, made over the phone prior to collection.

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Our Volunteers Say

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I've found the projects inspiring and I've developed skills I didn't know I had, to the extent that I am now able to find employment in new fields.

I will always be grateful to the staff and volunteers at Stroud Valleys Project for their encouragement and warm support.

Being involved with Stroud Valleys Project has been a great experience. I've enjoyed and learnt so much through various courses and volunteer projects I've worked on.

Thank you all at SVP for the help and support you have given me in the last couple of years, which has helped me to get my foot back on the ladder in the world of work.

I loved the course (Veg Growing), it was the highlight of my week

“Often I feel so bad I don’t want to do anything but after coming here, working with my group in the sunshine, I always feel more cheerful. They are my friends now.”

“Volunteering with SVP is the best thing that happened to me in my life.”

“I never thought I would get into gardening and growing stuff, but through all my work with SVP I have learnt to really appreciate nature.”

“We get lots of work done – and we have a laugh!”

“Our group is like pieces from a jigsaw puzzle. Everybody mucks in and does what they can, and the job gets finished in no time.”

“When somebody has a bad day, the others in the team make them feel better.”

“I learn lots of interesting things and I feel useful.”

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