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Students are Outward Bound
Students at Morecambe High School have purchased new equipment for their Outward Bound classes with a Quick Response grant.
The Parent and Teachers Association at Morecambe High School applied for a QR grant from Poulton Neighbourhood Management for £2000.
The grant was used to buy safety equipment which will be used by the students for climbing, caving and Kayaking. The shopping list included climbing ropes, shoes, harnesses, helmets, buoyancy aids, cagoules, over-suits, under-suits, over-trousers.
Photo: Back left-right – Tracy Bell, School Governor and PTA, Head Teacher John McNaughton, Head of Outdoor Education Mr Gibbison, and Chair of Poulton Neighbourhood Management Coun Shirley Burns with the Outward Bound class of Year 8.
Poulton Community Gardens by Rita Gerrard
Just over 3 and a half years ago Poulton Community Kitchen Garden was inaugurated with the help of Morecambe Healthy Living Centre with Anna Read as its Project Leader. We have now made a sad farewell to Anna as the H.L.C. contract ended on 31st October this year.
With active support from our volunteers and sponsors, much has been achieved in this period. From just one cleared patch which started as a steep slope and a sad apology for a rockery, we now have; 7 raised beds, 7 compost bins, 2 sheds with a wooden patio, 1 healing garden, a revamped sensory bed, 2 bug hotels, leaf mould bins, a bog garden, an extra large water butt, a long vegetable plot and 2 rockeries. Bulbs such as bluebells & snowdrops removed in the clearing have been replanted together with many new bulbs and new fruit trees. Work also commenced in the Memorial Hall Garden with the planting up of large herbs and a herbaceous flower bed
The Volunteers have affiliated themselves with Poulton Residents Environmental Group and are working in liaison with Morecambe Memorial Hall Trust. A Committee has been formed and plans have been outlined for further work on the new gardens in the Memorial Hall Grounds. There will be additions to the new herb garden which will be accessible to the ‘Food For Thought Cafe’, and in the Rectory Garden we look forward to an increased production of produce, as well as increasing the biodiversity of both gardens with more wildlife facilities such as habitats and wild flowers.
We have now changed our name to Poulton Community Gardens and are accredited members of the National Council for Voluntary Organisations and awaiting confirmation of membership of the Federation of City Farms & Community Gardens.
The New Year promises many good things - with the help of a Grant from Poulton Neighbourhood Management we are planning a number of workshops of a horticultural or environmental nature, one or two educational visits to see how like minded organisations operate and of course, landscaping and planting of the new wild garden.
PCG were delighted to receive an Award of Merit from The Royal Horticultural Society and presented by Mr. Fred Talbot in October at Manchester Town Hall for our entry in the North West in Bloom Competition, this was our first year and has given all the hard work made by our volunteers very well worth while.
Poulton Community Gardens are based in The Rectory Garden and the Memorial Hall Trust Garden, just behind Morecambe Police Station and are open to visitors daily, Volunteers meet on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday between 1pm to about 5pm. We invite any members of the community to visit and would love to have you on board as a volunteer; just a couple of hours per week would make a huge difference. We have a chair height raised bed if you need to sit and many easy jobs such as seed planting and re-potting seedlings. We have regular bonfires with hot soup and rolls when we meet up with many of our supporters and share some of our produce.
Contact us: Just drop in on Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday afternoons or leave a note – marked ‘Gardens’ into the letter box at the Rectory, Church Walk, or pop into the Poulton Neighbourhood Management office at 53 Euston Road – just before the Arndale Centre entrance.
We look forward to seeing you.
