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Green-fingered locals bid for cash
Funding has been made available for residents and community groups across the Borough of Haringey that want to grow their own food, under the latest Capital Growth Scheme.
The small grants are managed by London Food Link, part of Sustain-the alliance for better food and farming. London mayor Boris Johnson has a £75,000 fund to help Londoners grow their own food in under-used areas of the capital, and the target is to create 2,012 growing spaces by 2012 in discarded patches of London, tended by enthusiastic community gardeners.
Community groups in Haringey are being urged to apply for small grants from this pot of money and are in with a good chance of success. This is in addition to the practical support being offered to communities to help them to identify plots and join Capital Growth.
More than 300 plots have already been signed up across the city including canal banks, schools, roofs, private gardens open to the community and parks.
Councillor John Bevan, cabinet member for housing, environment and conservation, said: "This is a great opportunity to see what can be done with some of the green spaces on our housing estates or in patches of community land. We already have some community groups growing their own vegetables and I'd love to see more Haringey residents taking up the challenge."
The Capital Growth small grants fund offers between £200 to £1,500 to anyone who wants to create a new community food growing space. The grants will be on offer London-wide from 8 February 2010 until 1 March 2010 to any group that wants to start a growing project or who has been growing food on a plot started since January 1, 2009. The grants are also on offer to anyone wanting to expand an existing food growing space.
Readers can get more information and apply for a grant at capitalgrowth.org/apply or by phoning 020 7837 1228.
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