Finish digging your growing space. Clean pots and containers so they are free from pests and disease, dig compost or well-rotted manure in to your soil; and expose insect eggs to any frost. Finish harvesting any brassicas or ...
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Horticultural Show & Food Festival 2015
We're delighted to announce that we have a second horticultural show combined with a food festival at Winterbourne Gardens, University of Birmingham this year.
Sunday 13 September will see TCV and the Health for Life ...
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Schools Horticultural Show
Recently, the delivery of the Health for Life programme to cohort two schools’ came to an end. So as we rewarded schools on completion of their academic year in 2014, we thought it only appropriate to repeat the ...
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Life as a Project Officer
On a dull, grey morning in February I pulled up at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital site for my first day out as a Project Officer on the Health for Life in the community programme. I was excited but also nervous - as I am a food ...
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Jobs to do in February
As the end of Winter draws closer, the days are getting longer, bulbs are emerging and there are plenty of jobs to get your green space ship shape and ready for the spring. Here is the list for you budding gardeners this ...
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Fat cakes!
Today we produced freshly made fatcakes at Swanshurst Girls' School on the Health for Life programme. Some of the girls found the task quite "gooey" at first but then soon got the hang of it. With a little help from our ...
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Natural festive decorations
Here's three separate secondary schools within south Birmingham participating in the Health for Life programme. Throughout December, we invited parents, staff and students to ...
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Volunteer Day at The QE with BT
This week we had the pleasure of hosting 26 volunteers from all over the country as part of a national BT volunteer day. It was a wonderful winter day and we took them to our site at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital where thanks ...
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Mondelēz Employee Action Day at Ley Hill & QE Sites
On a windy and distinctly grey looking Wednesday morning, TCV welcomed a willing group of volunteers from Mondelēz to the Ley Hill Growing Site. The ‘Purple Army’ piled out of the minibus with eyes on the ominous clouds above ...
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Opening of Ley Hill Community Allotment
On Saturday 27th September, the Health for Life team worked with NSC with The Challenge and Holloway Hall for the grand opening of Ley Hill community allotments.
The Challenge brought around 100 volunteers from schools ...
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