Big Local North Cleethorpes is a resident led, 10 year funded programme to make North Cleethorpes a better place to live and work. A couple of years ago a community hub opened at 82 Grimsby Road, and was then rapidly closed due to covid-19! But when the Hub reopens (as permitted), there’s a new addition in the back yard.
A large, red, super shed has been built and is underway to open properly mid 2021. This large space will allow members of the public to get involved with all kinds of practical skills (making, creating or mending things).
You can watch progress on this project (and everything else Big Local is up to) on their website – www.biglocalnorthcleethorpes.org.uk
Importantly, there is space in the yard around the shed and Big Local are looking for ways to put planters in place and get things growing in the yard. One of the committee members received a Green Grow Box earlier in 2020 from a local project and has now planted things up in his garden ready to replant at the community hub by the shed when the time is right. You can watch Alan on the video on YouTube here.
This is a simple of example of some urban gardening. Take a bare piece of land and get something growing there. Have you got examples of this in Cleethorpes? Would you like to do some growing like this yourself?
We’d like to hear from you.
(And we’ll share more about the shed growing project later in 2021).