Grow Your Own workshop - Get Ready for Spring!

Setting up Self-Managed Allotments part 2

An Art Gene Design Cafe Event - Wednesday 16th November 2011 6.00pm for 6.30pm.

Guest speaker: Julian Smith, Operations Manager, Groundwork NE

Come an​d discuss the progress following our initial meeting and the response from Barrow Borough Council. Talk with others interested in developing their own self-managed allotment group from 6.00pm.

Free home-cooked food and refreshments will be served from 6.15pm.

At Art Gene in the Nan Tait Centre on Abbey Road, Barrow-in-Furness.

All Art Gene spaces are fully accessible.
For further information:
·      Ring or text Steve Harris on 0794 612 6412
·      Ring the  Art Gene office in Barrow 01229 825085
·      email artgenesteve@btconnect.com

Travelling to Art Gene by car: A590 and park (for free) in the the Art Gene car park (Collingwood Street). By rail: 5 minutes walk from Barrow Train Station. 

Old Bakery Official Opening

An Art Gene Design Cafe event

A Public meeting to discuss opportunities around self-managed allotments. Thursday 21st July from 6pm.

Following the recent trip to a prize winning self-managed allotment group in Eccles, Art Gene would like to invite you to an evening of discussion and refreshments. Come and hear what we found out and why we are so excited about the things we discovered!

This will be of particular interest to those who are considering the option of self managed allotments and those on allotment waiting lists.

Join us at 6pm for a free buffet and refreshments followed by informal discussion from 7pm.

FREE trip to award winning allotments

A free Design Café minibus day trip to 'Tindall St & Lorne St Allotment Association', Eccles - Saturday 2nd July

Are you waiting for an allotment? Are you interested in finding out about what it takes to set up a self-managed allotment group in your community? This is your chance to join a trip to a prize-winning allotment group. The founders of the allotments will be there to answer your questions about how they started and what it took to succeed. They will also show us around the site where we will meet with other allotment holders. Tindall Street is the first allotment site in the north of England to receive The Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service and The Green Pennant Award for high quality green spaces in England.

Booking: As seats will go quickly please book now by any of the following:

• Ringing or texting Steve Harris on 07946126412

• Ringing the Art Gene office in Barrow 01229 825085

• Emailing artgenesteve@btconnect.com

• Book on www.artgene-designcafe.com

On the day: Please be prompt - we leave at 10.00 am.

Please bring clothing and footwear appropriate to weather conditions. Meet at Art Gene car park, Nan Tait Centre, Abbey Road, Barrow in Furness LA14 5TY. Disabled Facilities: Some parts of Tindall Street Allotments are accessible by wheelchair but this is not the case for the tour element of the trip.

Wastelands or Wildflower Meadows?

A free Design Café minibus day trip to The National Wildflower Centre, Liverpool, Saturday 11th June, departing Barrow at 10 am returning at 5.30 pm.

Change your perceptions of wastelands and brown-field sites, they are our urban parklands.

The award winning National Wildflower Centre showcases wild flowers in their natural environment promoting the creation of new wildflower habitats.

The day trip will take you to see the centre in the spectacular 35 acre Victorian Court Hey Park, approximately 5 miles from Liverpool city centre.

The aim is to have lunch at the cafe on arrival, bring your own packed lunch or purchase a lunch at a very reasonable price from the cafe. Gill Watson, a senior member of staff, will be available to answer your questions and pass on planting tips.

Book online at ... http://www.artgene-designcafe.com/
or
Email: artgenesteve@btconnect.com

Telephone: Steve Harris on 0794 612 6412 or Maddi Nicholson on 01229 825085

Seats will go quickly please book now!

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