Everyone in the Brighton and Hove community are welcome to get involved, particularly people living and working in the area surrounding the garden. If you’re interested in helping or just wish to have a look please come to the site on our workdays which are every Sunday between 11am and 5pm.
We need stuff!
The garden relies on found and donated materials and tools so if you can contribute any of the following items we’d be very grateful. If you want to get involved but don’t want to donate your shiny tools then just bring them along for the day and then take them home with you.
- Soil (loads of it!)
- Tools (spades, forks, hammers, hand saws, nails, screws, crow bars, axes)
- Paint and brushes
- Old tyres
- Bathtubs (in fact any container that stuff can be grown)
- Wheelbarrows
- Gloves
- Watering cans
- Rope and string
- Decoration (art!)
- Organic waste
- Anything else at all you think might be useful in the space!
We need your support!
- Please show Hargreaves that the local community is in support of the Mound Community Garden
- Write to your local councillor and/or MP expressing your support for the project
- Email the Managing Director of Hargreaves, Richard Andrew (richard.andrew@hargreaves.co.uk) expressing your opinion. See below for a template, but please add your own opinions.
TO: richard.andrew@hargreaves.co.uk
CC: themound@riseup.net; caroline.lucas.mp@parliament.uk; [YOUR COUNCILLOR]
SUBJECT: The Mound community garden
Dear Mr. Andrew,
As a resident of Brighton & Hove I believe that the community garden and
food growing space known as the Mound – on the corner of Church St and
Portland St – is beneficial for the local community and should be allowed
to remain for as long as the space is not being built on. We need more
green spaces In central Brighton and this project, which aims to teach
people more about urban food production, is brilliant.
I understand that the Gardeners would like to enter dialogue with you to
ensure the future of this project. I implore you let this project continue
for as long as the site remains vacant, not to force them out and to
discuss a mutually beneficial way forward.
Yours Sincerely,
[Your name]
[Your postcode]