Our mission at Gardens of Giving is to partner with local charitable, community organizations and schools as a link between issues surrounding sustainability, mental health, learning and food poverty.
We want organisations to foster collaborative thinking for the greater good of the community we live in.
ABOUT US
•Mental Health
•Skill Shortages
•Healthy Eating
•Food Poverty
•Sustainability
For a greater future together as a community
TOGETHER LET'S TACKLE
Increase of mental health issues and suicide!
We will tackle this by working with organisations like men and sheds and by bringing communities together.
Shortage of skilled trade people!
Helping people learn about making wooden structures and general skills around working with tools and growing their own plants.
By 2030 the predicted shortfall of carpenters and joiners will be around 53,691 workers.
Increase cost of living!
Teaching people on how to grow their own food which they can imitate at home to decrease this cost.
Will this lead to decrease of food donations?
We will donate produce that has been grow by local students and other local partners teaching them skills and the benefits of giving and the satisfaction of this.
PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS
BUSINESS MODEL AND BUILDING
PARTNERSHIPS
• Gardens of giving want to partner with Men in Sheds Located in Mansfield in which Gardens of Giving will donate off cuts of wood locally sourced from manufacturing companies. It is our aim that 50% of the wood donated will be used to create readymade raised planting beds.
• We then aim to partner with local schools. We will donate the raised planting beds. We will link in with the school's reading policy and their forest school program by proving literature for children to read on how to grow food. They will also be able to grow the produce in their forest school classes with 50% of the produce being donated back to Gardens of Giving.
• Gardens of giving will then Donate 80% the produce from the school back to local food banks to be distributed to those in need.
• The Remaining 20% will be used to produce seeds for next year's produce.
• All the above can be achieved without outsourcing out of our area of Ashfield and Mansfield after the initial purchase of seeds
We look to have this across all primary schools in the area. Partnering with as many food banks as possible.
Then we look to copy the initiative through all local care homes and other organisations.
The potential of Community Growing also.
FUTURE OF GARDENS OF GIVING
OUR COMMITMENT IS TO THE WHOLE COMMUNITY
Any profits made from the sale of children's literature will be used so we can have our own growing facility. Which will mean all the produce will be donated and our growing facility will be used to produce seeds and plants to sustain the future produce for years to come!
