BetterBriggs' Feel-Good Gardening Project
Phone: 07453673280
Address: BetterBriggs Community Garden
c/o The Village
14-16 The Triangle
G64 2TR BetterBriggs Ltd. is a community group (recently registered as a not-for-profit Company Limited by Guarantee) which has the simple, transformative aim of making our town (Bishopbriggs) better. In 2020 we received Scotland's Towns Partnership funding to create a pop-up community garden in a little-used town-centre car park. The project was such a success that we decided to apply for further funding to encourage local people to get involved in curating the garden and were successful in obtaining further funding from East Dunbartonshire Health and Social Care Partnership to create a 'Feel-Good Gardening' project which aims to address social isolation and loneliness by encouraging people to come together and benefit from the improved health and wellbeing that social gardening can bring. We hope to move forward into community food-growing and food sharing and are already engaging with local schools in this regard.
Facilities: Volunteering, Community space for hire, Picnic area, Wildlife area
Open to the public? Yes
Accessible? Yes
Has livestock? No
Directions:
From Glasgow city centre take the A803 Kirkintilloch Road northwards towards Kirkintilloch. Approximately 4 miles along this road the A803 passes through Bishopbriggs town centre. At the traffic light junction (Costa Coffee on right-hand side) turn right and then at the mini roundabout turn left. The community garden is on your left-hand side.
By train: one stop from Glasgow Queen Street station (Stirling/Alloa line). Train station lies just south of the community garden site.
By bus: no. 88 or 89 from Buchanan Bus Station, stop is just beyond traffic lights in town centre (opposite Costa Coffee)