Growing Spaces Wins Award
Growing Spaces, our flagship community project has won the prestigious What We Are Proud of Award 2010 for the south east. The award, given by the National Housing Federation recognises and celebrates good work in the community across the south east. The next step is the national final in September.
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Huge Raised Bed at Oakfield Primary School
We installed the oversize, double length raised bed at Oakfield Primary School today that we planned with the parents, staff and children earlier in May. Working with families directly in their own homes as well as via their children at school are vital elements to the Growing Spaces project. We also managed to bury our [...]
Posted in Community, Education, Engagement, Environment, Growing Ideas, Growing Spaces, Raised Beds, Schools | Tags: Extended Schools, Family, Isle of Wight, Local Food, Low Carbon Life
Growing Ideas and Gifted and Talented on the Isle of Wight
Growing Ideas ran the first of our Gifted and Talented days for primary and middle school children at Newport Primary School on the Isle of Wight. The theme for the day was Renewable Energy and two large groups of children took part in a series of problem solving and design challenges focusing on Solar Power [...]
Posted in Education, Environment, Growing Ideas, Renewable Energy, Technology | Tags: Creative Learning, Electronics, Extended Schools, Gifted and Talented, Science, Solar Power, Wind Power
Growing Ideas, Growing Spaces and Volunteers
The residents of a sheltered housing project in Ryde were the lucky recipients of nearly 8 tonnes of topsoil and compost today. The team from Growing Ideas, working with a pair of volunteers, shovelled, barrowed and tipped all the soil during a day of unending torrential rain. Despite wearing waterproof tops and trousers Kevin McNamara [...]
Posted in Community, Education, Environment, Growing Ideas, Growing Spaces, Raised Beds | Tags: volunteers
Growing Ideas & Family Learning at Oakfield Primary School
We delivered a combined Growing Spaces-Family Learning sign-up session (for Growing Spaces) at Oakfield Primary School, Ryde, today. Growing Spaces is a raised bed project delivered by Growing Ideas Limited in partnership with Medina Housing Association. Parents and children watched the Growing Spaces 2008 video before taking part in a series of fun and informative [...]
Posted in Community, Education, Growing Spaces, Schools | Tags: Extended Schools, Family Learning
Growing Ideas and Growing Spaces 2009
Today sees the start of the first fortnight of raised beds construction as part of our Growing Spaces project – the team will be working on the Pan Estate, Newport and in Ryde, both on the Isle of Wight. These raised beds represent the first steps of what will be four years of delivery of [...]
Posted in Community, Engagement, Environment, Growing Ideas, Growing Spaces, Housing Association, Raised Beds | Tags: Family, Healthy Living, Isle of Wight, Low Carbon Life
Growing Spaces 2009 Launches in Newport and Ryde
Growing Spaces 2009 has launched on the Pan Estate, Newport, Isle of Wight and in Ryde, Isle of Wight. Two launch events have been attended by eager residents in both locations and dozens have signed up. This highly valued community project is now being delivered by Growing Ideas in partnership with Medina Housing Association using [...]
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Growing Ideas’ Learning Resources
Growing Ideas, a brand new company specialising in the design and delivery of education and community projects has started to take delivery of a vast range of learning resources. They are designed to support the delivery of innovative learning opportunities in schools and community settings across the Isle of Wight and the south of England. [...]
Posted in Community, Deliverables, Education, Environment, Growing Ideas, Learning Resources, Technology | Tags: Dataloggers, K'Nex, Solar Power, Wind Power
Creation of Growing Ideas Limited
The brand new company, Growing Ideas Limited, based on the Isle of Wight was formed today. Growing Ideas will specialise in the design and delivery of education and community projects on the island and across the south of England. The directors of the new company are Kevin McNamara and Danny Giblin and they report that [...]
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