SuGaR Project for Climate Challenge

Phone: 07539862437
Address: Paisley Grammar School
Glasgow Road
PA1 3RP

This is a School & Community Growing Project in an area designated to be one of high social deprivation. Young Enterprise Scotland has been subcontracted by a local Housing Association and Community Group to develop school & community growing grounds as a Climate Challenge Initiative for Scottish Executive to support Zero Waste Scotland, Bio-diversity, community food distribution, social enterprise, planet protection and self reliance. We have two sites; The School as a progressive interactive joint school and community Bio-Diversity Growing Ground and our Community Kitchen Garden in the heart of the Scheme that surrounds the High School. The Kitchen Garden provides growing opportunities for self reliance, social enterprise and social inclusion in an area that has not had a community cohesive force for more than 30 years.

We work alongside other local community groups such as Enable, the Work Life Team from the local Housing Association (to provide a place of therapeutic practical purpose) the Council Community Payback Team who have helped clear the sites for development, clear areas for composting news growth in the Community Kitchen Garden and build workbenches and seating (from recycled wood) for our covered outdoor classroom area. This project collaboration has really been all about co-operation and regeneration.

The School based Community Garden also focuses on Health & Well Being; as residents and "caretakers" of the environment in which we inhabit and how this is directly connected to the Health & Well-Being of our Planet. We undertake a "Seed to Plate" combined with "a "Waste Not Want Not" ideology to provide interactive cooking workshops within the school twice a week. Complete Meals are created from combining home grown produce with Best Before and Reduced Seasonal Food Items. Reduction in Food Waste. Reduction in spending and Reduction in Planet Toxins from Bio-Diversity Growing!

Facilities: Volunteering, Community recycling/composting, Holiday activities, Wildlife area, Sustainable/Green building on site
Open to the public? No
Open to the public - details:
Accessible? No
Has livestock? No