St Johns Community Garden

Location

St Johns Community Garden, 85 Pitfield Street, Hoxton, London N1 6NP

Brief Project Description

The objectives of this project were to:

• restore and redevelop an underused dilapidated churchyard in a densely built-up area of run down housing estates and transform it into a community owned and used garden for local recreation and leisure
• to use the lansdscaping and maintenance works as an opportunity for local unemployed people to develop skills, build confidence and gain work experience
• the garden will enhance the capacity of organisations already working in the church building, including an employment scheme, a community cafe, a programme for yoing children and their carers and the next-door school. Unemployed clients will be involved in the soft lanscaping, cafe customers will be able to sit outside in warmer weather and children will use the garden for recreation.

The project included two main elements:

(a) breakout areas of wornm tarmac, restore the pathways and associated landscaping

(b) extend the paving at the couth side of the church to create a terrace area for use by cafe customers and other community activities

Amount of funding

£55,000

Start- Completion dates

Oct 2001 - June 2002

Illustration of what was achieved

Comment On This Page

This Page was last update: Thursday, July 17, 2003 at 10:08:47 AM
This page was originally posted: 5/21/2003; 2:29:19 PM.
Copyright 2008 Lee Valley Projects Evaluation

This site is using the Adult Contemporary (purple) theme.

Membership : Join Now : Login