An exciting new Community Garden and Lunch Club project was launched by PCP on Wednesday 7th October.
Growing our Community will offer weekly gardening tutorials at the Pioneering Care Centre and a monthly activity and lunch club at Woodham Community Centre during the next year. Recent refurbishment funded by GAMP has improved access to plant beds in the PCP community garden, so it is hoped that this project will benefit a wide cross-section of the community.
The celebration launch event was attended by 30 guests from the local community including Mayor Mary Dalton and Consort Michael Dalton, PCP Chair Melanie Fordham and GAMP Coordinator Brian Riley.
Liz had this to say about the launch event and work done so far in the community garden: “We’re really excited about the new project working in partnership with Woodham Community Centre and pleased to have had such excellent support at the celebration launch event. We hope to bring in groups from across the community to benefit from our new facilities. Growing our Community, a partnership between PCP and Woodham Community Centre and funded by GAMP, will give local people the opportunity to improve their health and wellbeing”. The two events offered by the project are free gardening workshops at the Pioneering Care Centre on Wednesdays from 1-3pm and a monthly activity and lunch club at Woodham Community Centre on the last Wednesday of each month. Participants will gain ‘hands on’ experience in clearing the community garden at PCP, sowing seeds, understanding soils/composting, growing vegetables, cultivating fruit/herbs and much more!
To find out more about how to get involved, please contact Liz Godfrey at the Pioneering Care Centre.
Address: Pioneering Care Centre, Carer’s Way, Newton Aycliffe, DL5 4SF
Tel: 01325 321234  Email: enquiries@pcp.uk.net
Website: www.pcp.uk.net. Or find PCP on Twitter: @PioneeringCare and Facebook: /PCPandCentre

Growing our Communities launch
left to right: GAMP Coordinator Brian Riley, Mayor Mary Dalton, Consort Michael Dalton and PCP Community Learning Coordinator Liz Godfrey.