Volunteers from our key delivery partner NG Bailey have been busy helping a West Cumbrian charity recover from the storms that hit the region earlier this year.
Storms damaged one of the polytunnels at the Goodlives project, based at Westlakes Science Park. Goodlives is a growing project that aims to offer real life skills and employment skills through gardening and horticulture.
It creates a ‘work’ environment focused on food production whilst supporting people into employment, education and training opportunities together with delivering health and wellbeing benefits.
Volunteers from NG Bailey got stuck into the task at hand, to put a new skin on the polytunnel and helped with a bit of heavy lifting and maintenance too!
Vicki Fox, of NG Bailey, said:
“To see the project is absolutely amazing, they have a new container on site with two fully kitted out kitchens so they can offer cooking lessons and talk about and use fresh healthy produce grown on site.
“Darrel is an amazing handy man and has made a propagator that is fully insulated, and it is temperature and moisture controlled. This allows them to germinate up to 9,000 saplings ready to plant generating a really good harvest.”
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