Growing London Project Visits London City Hall

On 14th December a number of WEA learners from the Growing London project visited City Hall for the event "How London Assembly works" hosted by London Civic Forum. Learners had the opportunity to see Boris in action at his monthly question and answer session with GLA members. Learners were also given a briefing about the function of City Hall in “Londons Living Room”, a space on the very top of City Hall boasting spectacular views over the city.

London City Hall

Growing London is a sustainable growing project led by London Civic Forum, with WEA London and Ecolocal as partners. The project works across five London neighbourhood groups with local people coming together & learning how to make a difference in their communities by participating in container veg growing.  Over the course of the sessions people learn about creating a container garden and building skills and confidence to make a difference in their local area.

 

Growing London Participants

The neighbourhoods involved are Butts Farm in Hounslow, Bethnal Green in Tower Hamlets,  a number of  groups across Newham who are doing their practical gardening work with the Stroke Association, Mottingham in Bromley, and Frinstead in Kensington & Chelsea.
 

WEA London tutor Richard Pitts delivers active citizenship training as part of the course, this looks at how participants can maintain and progress their work, use local media to publicise their work and get others thinking and working on sustainable growing.  One of the sustainable outcomes of this course is that each group makes an action plan for finding an allotment or other growing space in order to continue growing for the future.

WEA Tutor - Richard Pitts