Projects At The Hanging Gardens

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Building The Indoor Market

Work On the Old Chapel To Create The Indoor Market

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Today humanity faces many challenges (Climate change, resource scarcity, COVID 19) that have a global and lasting impact on the planet. In this difficult context, one thing is becoming clear: there is no going back to business as usual. It is a once-in-a-century opportunity to recover and build resilience to future shocks, to invest in low-carbon, nature enhancement, and resilience growth. It needs everyone of us to imagine the way forward.

 

The Hanging Gardens Project aims to inspire, stimulate, educate, and empower. We aim to use everyone’s expertise, more focused on the small positive steps we can each make to real resilience here in our own community and hopeful about the future we can create together –  rather than be anxious about what is coming.

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Community Resilience

Today – a time of greater awareness of our worldwide challenges – we need to have greater ambition and take greater risks to find a balance that restores our hope in a vibrant future and to enhance our resilience.  

 

We want that every organisation, every member of society, to have the chance to be involved and implement new practices, new ways of exchanging, consuming, interacting with others and the world around them.

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We want to strengthen the links of solidarity and mutual aid within the community.

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We want to share knowledge and experiment know-how on sustainable development, climate change, and green recovery

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Community Resilience at the hanging gardens

BIODIVERSITY & ENVIRONMENT

The Hanging Gardens lives up to its claims of being open to all by hosting all forms of life from ladybirds and butterflies to newts and frogs.

Our Community Garden has a small pond and wildlife space to ensure all are catered for – amphibious or otherwise.

Our Thursday group have built swift boxes to entice the abundant swift colony that graces the summer skies above the gardens, to come and breed on our buildings.

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Two Ponys In A field

HEALTHY FOOD

We have recently established our Healthy Food Group with members of our community working towards helping reshape the towns’ access to healthy food.

Part of our work at the Hanging Gardens is the creation of a food Hub allowing a space to bring together and promote local produce. We will help to set up new initiatives that link producers and consumers recreating the link between the food we buy and where and how it is produced and processed. We want to promote healthy and balanced eating, to give meaning to food and the joy of eating, cooking, and sharing a meal. The Hanging Gardens will highlight local expertise and give everyone the opportunity to get involved. Finally, we want local, healthy, quality food to be available and accessible to all.


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Healthy Food

Llanidloes Community Fridge

Food waste is a big issue in the UK and beyond. It’s estimated that a third of all food gets wasted. Most of this is avoidable and could have been eaten had it been better managed. The Llanidloes Community Fridge helps cut food waste, build stronger bonds within the community and redistributes good quality food.
Funding from the charities Hubbub and Social Farms and Gardens have allowed The Hanging Gardens to open a fridge, freezer and pantry in our community space that is available for everyone to access free food that would otherwise go to waste. A team of food waste fighting volunteers have begun collecting surplus food from COOP supermarket which then goes into the fridge for everyone to use, share and enjoy. Since April 2022, the Community Fridge has redistributed close to 700kg of food that would have otherwise gone into landfill. The Fridge is easy to access and use, just pop in during Hanging Gardens open hours, take what you need and donate what you don’t.
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Recycled Food

SOCIAL & WELLBEING

Keep an eye out for our COMMUNITY MEALS – open to everyone and FREE!

Have a look at our ARTS section if you have learning disability, are an unpaid carer or unemployed

We host groups that are connected with wellbeing and open to all.

Come and try the BOARD GAMES for Wellbeing or join a CHOIR

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Wellbeing Tree

Art at the hanging gardens

We have two Heritage Arts events on regularly that are both finaced by the DULVERTON TRUST. 

 

The FRIDAY FRIENDS GROUP meets every Friday afternoon (2.00pm – 5.00pm) , specifically for anyone with ADDITIONAL LEARNING NEEDS aged between 18 and 40. Carers usually come too and we do a variety of creative sessions – mainly art based but sometimes cooking or gardening. 

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