The last day of BTCV Scotland’s involvement with the Toryglen Garden Club came to an end on Friday 31st July 2009.
In 2005 three residents of Toryglen came together with a shared desire to improve the local environment of the area. Calling themselves the Toryglen Gardening Club, they held bulb planting days and gardeners picnics, established a Children’s Orchard in the grounds of a local school and held a plant sale.
Gradually their ideas grew, and in 2007 they approached the national environmental organisation BTCV to ask for help to make their ideas become reality. BTCV brought in a community development officer to work fulltime with local people on environmental projects.
As more and more local people came on board and the range of projects grew to include woodland conservation and recycling, it soon became clear that the group would have to develop too. Through applying to the Climate Challenge Fund the project was able to continue under a new name and identity. Urban Roots – was chosen to better reflect the whole work of the group.
Urban Roots is the new name for what was called the Toryglen project. The community project is still a community based environmental organisation based at the same address in Toryglen, Glasgow’s southside. BTCV are very proud of the success of this project.