- Welcome
- To everyone and happy birthday Liam
- Apologies
From Caroline Foster - Work programme
- Lots of ground preparation.
- Lots of planting of food crops.
- Wood processing – huge amounts of splitting, sawing and chopping.
- Sweeping up catkins.
- Keeping the site clean – eg picking up glass.
- Lots of weeding.
- New sessions going really well – bushcraft and wellbeing Wednesdays.
- Moving soil to the toddler area for the tunnel.
- Lots more bike and scooter repairs.
- Next Jobs
- More watering.
- Planting out into beds and allotment plot.
- More weeding – hogweed, thistles and docks as a priority but all growing beds and paths will need attention. Pete will produce a guide to composting different plants on site and what goes where.
- Events/visits
- Transition Northwich are visiting Grozone on Thursday 24th at 1.30pm to promote their work.
- Pete is delivering a talk about The Love My River project at Groundwork’s office on Navigation Road on Thursday 24th at 7.00pm.
- BBC Northwest Tonight programme featuring Grozone will air this Friday 6.30-7.00pm on BBC1.
- Caroline’s wedding this Saturday – obviously we all wish them very well.
- Big Lunch Saturday 2nd June 12.00 till 3.00 – everyone welcome to come along with a picnic. Is anyone able to help run activities?
- Northwich Library Bookstart event Monday 4th June.
- Birthday festival – end of July – exact date tbc but again we’ll need lots of help.
- Other projects/partnerships
Roots to Wellbeing Practical Horticulture Award – next course is starting tomorrow (Wednesday 23rd May). - Brightlife sessions starting on Wednesdays – lots of volunteers offered to distribute flyers – thank you.
- Pride of Northwich lions – can we all think of ideas for how to decorate Grozone’s lion please.
- Love My River Project has secured funding for another year and has also received additional funding from United Utilities. The project is installing a raingarden at Castle Community Centre, will soon focus on removing Himalayan Balsam from the banks of the River Dane and Pete is running another Yellow Fish day on 12th June.
- Volunteer led sessions – we are having a break as we are short of volunteer leaders and the responsibility for opening up was falling on too few people. But we will start them again. Does anyone else want to become a volunteer leader?
- Our application to The People’s Health Trust for funding for a Mental Health Self Help group got through stage 1, but not through stage 2 of the process. We will look for other ways of funding the group.
- Any other business
- A reminder – that volunteers, including volunteer leaders who are not leading, are not allowed in the tool shed without asking permission of the leader of the day first.
- Please can we remember to keep the greenhouse tidy and accessible for everyone - thank you.
- Please also remember to take rubbish home with you.
- Would anyone like to get involved in the Northwich Carnival? If so, please speak to Andy.
- Date of next meeting: Tuesday 17th July