Community giveaway
Love Parks Week has teamed up with Fiskars Orange Thumb, a scheme which offers community groups the funds, tools, or materials they need to clean up and green up neglected community green spaces.
Fiskars Orange Thumb would like to help supporters of Love Parks Week to rejuvenate a lost or forgotten green space in celebration of the campaign. If you know of a disused or neglected piece of land that is currently over-run with nettles, brambles and other greenery, but you think would make a perfect space for your community to enjoy, why not nominate it as a Fiskars Orange Thumb project? Fiskars' panel of gardening experts will select a project from the nominations and send a team of Orange Thumb volunteers and loads of great Fiskars garden tools to help you and your community to prune back, de-weed and dig over your green space so that it can be used and enjoyed by the whole community
The Orange Thumb team have already been out and about with their Fiskars tools in Huddersfield, clearing an old allotment site in Dewhurst Road, Fartown. The site, which is currently overrun with weeds, brambles and debris, is in serious need of clearing to provide space for a local enterprise centre for students with special needs to grow food. The first step will be to help members of the community outreach project to clear the area so that paths can be built for the students, after which it will be used to plant fruit trees and other food crops.
Nominations for the Love Parks Week project should be submitted as soon as possible by following the links from the Love Parks Week website.
