Stockton gardening group receive funding for a new greenhouse - The Leamington Observer

Stockton gardening group receive funding for a new greenhouse

Leamington Editorial 25th Jul, 2022   0

GREEN-fingered children at an after-school club and a charity providing vital support to young families are among four groups in Warwickshire to share a slice of £4,000 funding.

Stockton Community Garden Project has received £400 from The Wigley Group to replace a greenhouse used by children after it was destroyed by storms in February.

Home-Start South Warwickshire also received £1,108 to fund volunteers to support three South Warwickshire families who require social or physical support and are currently on a waiting list for help.

The funds have been donated in the latest round of the Wigley Community Fund, which was set up by Warwickshire property firm The Wigley Group to support causes within a five-mile radius of its HQ in Stockton.




Stockton Community Garden Project is run by a group of older residents in Stockton every Tuesday at Stockton Primary School, and teaches children the skills to grow their own vegetables and learn about the food they eat, whilst also providing a chance for different generations to mix.

When their greenhouse was destroyed by storms, the community rallied together to raise £1,000 through an online appeal, with a £400 shortfall met by The Wigley Community Fund.


Group member Howard Collerson said: “When the storm came it blew one end of the greenhouse completely off so we were all devastated.

“We could have bought another greenhouse with the initial money raised but it wouldn’t have been as good and it would have been too small, so the Wigley grant was vital to us and will make a huge difference to the children”.

Home-Start South Warwickshire was set-up in 2019 by Marie Ashford and Mel Pritchard and helps young families through challenges ranging from mental health, post-natal depression, loneliness, or domestic abuse, and has seen demand rise.

Their grant will allow them to send three additional trained volunteers to families with children five years and under, to provide two hours of support each week at their own homes.

Elsewhere, Long Itchington Cricket Club received £1,244 to purchase four new picnic benches to increase the club’s capacity for spectators at Whitehall Farm.

And Proactive Young People – a not-for-profit community organisation which supports young people and adults aged 11-25 into employment – received more than £1,000 to fund a new website to enable them to reach more people.

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