Memory Garden
Memory Gardening is a new project led by Bankside Open Spaces Trust to engage older people as active citizens in and around Bankside. We are focusing on four local housing estates: Scovell Estate, Lancaster Street Estate, Peabody Estate –
Participation · Engaging with older people who are often excluded and isolated · Enabling older people to have their say in how their local environment is managed and develops · Making links with helpful local services · Building a memory bank reflecting the area’s important history for all of us · Bringing older people together to practically improve their environment · Using plants and gardening as a means to have fun and improve fitness · Making links across age groups to strengthen the community · Building confidence and motivation Through informal chats and structured interviews, we aim to gather memories and views of what older people think of their local public areas, and encourage participation in:
Passionate about People Power? Volunteers Needed for the If you enjoy talking and listening to people and would like to help gather the information which will influence greening, gardening and play in Bankside, we’d love to hear from you. We’re asking 500 local people what improvements they would like to see – more places to grow veg…places for play…flowering balconies…less concrete? We want to build a group of volunteers to work together to: · Deliver flyers locally about this new project · Carry out short interviews with local people about their environment · Help us bring ‘Plants to the People’! Full briefing given – flexible times and days – minimum time commitment equivalent to 1 day If you enjoy listening to memories and tales of Bankside past, why not volunteer to carry out more in-depth interviews with older people? · Attend a training workshop to gain skills in oral history interviewing · Meet older local people and record their fascinating memories of local places · Gather photographs for our ‘Gardens Archive’ · Help turn these memories into displays, web links and leaflets You will be fully briefed and work in twos and threes on identified local estates, or one-to-one with specific older people. This is a sociable and friendly project with lots of scope to improve your skills and meet new people. We ask for a minimum commitment of the equivalent of three days for the oral history project over 5 months, plus half a day for the workshop.
If you think you would enjoy being involved, contact Verena McCaig or Carole Wright on 020 7928 5803 or verena@bost.org.uk |
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