Funding for this community get-together has come from the Getting Involved Grant from Southwark Council. The funding has provided plants, some gardening gloves and tools so that everyone can join in. There will be refreshments to be enjoyed together afterwards to reward us for our hard work. See you there!
Thanks to all those who joined us for gardening on Saturday 6 November.
There were 9 of us who gardened in the Wildlife and Sensory Garden in Lorrimore Sqauare. Some who couldn't attend lent us their brown bins which we very much appreciated as there was a lot of garden to clear after a summer of really good growing conditions.
We cut back overgrown plants, cleared and raked the paths, and jet-washed the circular bench around the tree.
Thanks to everyone who supported us!
CAMPAIGN TO CLEAN UP CARTER STREET
For years the area on Carter Street next to St Peter's Primary School has been a dumping ground. The TRA used its annual grant funding to put a planter in the space near the containers to discourage fly-tippers in 2016. Initially this worked but the area went back to being a dumping ground soon afterwards. We applied under Cleaner Greener Safer to fill the whole area with a flower bed and put the bins on Carter Street itself (like the other communal bins so no reduction of parking spaces). We were not successful in the last round of bids. The TRA is taking photos daily to show the extent of the problem. We will be applying for funding again this autumn. This level of rubbish anywhere is unpleasant. Right next to a primary school it is unacceptable.
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