From Overgrown to Grow Your Own
19 February 2010
Conservation Volunteers helped transform an overgrown community garden with the help of over forty local volunteers in East Belfast.
The community action day was part of a series of events delivered as part of the Connswater Community Greenway project throughout sites in East Belfast.
The garden at Victoria Day Centre was designed and created by Conservation Volunteers through the ‘Can you Dig it’ project almost ten years ago and had been maintained by the Victoria Green Gym group. Since the closure of the day centre almost a year ago, the garden had become overgrown and neglected.
Conservation Volunteers helped local volunteers including families, young people, a women’s group and MLA John Kyle to restore the garden, cutting back overgrown vegetation and constructing raised planters as well as creating spaces for fruit and vegetables to be grown organically.
The idyllic and peaceful scenery of the garden will be a place for reflection and calm and it is hoped it will be used and maintained by the community in East Belfast as an urban green space.
We will be delivering a range of volunteering opportunities as part of the continuing Connswater Community Greenway project throughout the year along with Community Leadership Training.
For more information on the project and upcoming volunteering opportunities, please contact Helen Tomb on H.Tomb@btcv.org.uk or phone 028 9064 5169.