Rainbow Garden Hull – Growing Community
Community garden in North Hull, open to all
At after school club the children banked up their potatoes, watered them. They then planted carrots, peas and spring onion seeds before having a play in the garden. The watered the soil at the end of the raised bed then digging in deep having fun. If you want to get involved or know more, please checkout our facebook page and drop us a note on messenger, or hit the contact us at the top of the page.
Hull Rainbow Garden keeps on growing thanks to a nurturing local community and lottery funding.
The National Lottery Community Fund has awarded three years of funding to a small well-loved charity, nested within a corner of North Hull just off Endike Lane. For over 25 years. Hull Rainbow Garden Hull has provided a tranquil space that has welcomed everyone to enjoy nature and make new friends with the help of local volunteers and two part time staff members.
Even throughout the pandemic the Charity was always there for residents, sharing gardening ideas via Social Media, providing free activity packs for families and supporting people with their wellbeing and preparing social distant activities within the garden.
Located at the end of Levisham Close, the National Lottery Community Fund recognised how creative use of space and how the community worked together to make a difference for others that nurtured a strong community spirit. The charity aims to continue to listen to their community, using the funding to bring more people together by offering craft sessions, after school clubs, gardening tasters as well as facilitating friendship groups.
With the cost of living increasing and families in need of support as well as affordable positive activities for their children, Hull Rainbow Garden has started making plans over the next three years to share healthy eating ideas, and creative activities that inspires positive use of nature that brings enjoyment to others.
More volunteers are needed to make this happen, and the charity is currently recruiting a new Operations Manager to help plan more activities in response to emerging needs of the local community.
As well as the Lottery funding, the Hull Rainbow Garden secured a 9th consecutive Green Flag, an award that recognises excellent management of green spaces. Only two other Green Flags have been awarded in Hull, East Park and Pearson Park, both managed by Hull Culture and Leisure.
The National Lottery Community Fund awarded the Rainbow Garden, growing community £180,866 over 3 years.
“The National Lottery Community Funding is fantastic news to all those who have worked tirelessly,(both staff and volunteers) over the last 25 years to make the Rainbow Garden, the special place it now is. This funding will enable us to expand and further develop our community benefits with new services, events and activities. Enabling the Rainbow Garden to appoint an Operations Manager to deliver these exciting opportunities over the next three years” Ken Upshall, Trustee and Chair
“This funding will secure the future of the Rainbow Garden and I can’t wait to share this, with our gardening community, at our Jubilee Celebration Event on the 3rd June. I’m sure everyone will be well pleased, that what we do, at the Rainbow Garden is valued and appreciated. We will hope to spread the word much wider that gardening is really good for your health and well-being and you get to eat and enjoy what you grow. Come and join us” Brenda Elm, Senior Gardener
Covid was a challenging time for the local community and the charity kept in touch with as many people as possible via Facebook, newsletters and personal visits with supplies of fresh fruit and veg. Shared stories and art work to record these experiences has helped create a new reflections garden and community arts trail for everyone to enjoy.
Hull Rainbow Garden would welcome an informal chat about volunteering and if anyone would like to apply for the part time position, to email hullrainbowgarden@outlook.com
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Application Deadline extended to July 30th
The Rainbow Gardens are pleased to announce a new exciting job vacancy for an Operations Manager. This is a completely new post, which has arisen due to increased funding.
We are seeking to appoint an operations manager to assist our team, in monitoring our activities and in the strategic development of the organisation. You will report directly to the board and will work alongside the senior gardener who is responsible for managing the programme, community engagement, and maintaining the gardens.
The ideal candidate will be self-motivated, have good IT and communications skills, and be able to multi task, with experience of writing funding bids, monitoring and evaluating existing projects and budgeting.
You will work from home and will be expected to attend weekly meetings, activities and events at the gardens, when required.
Full details are available in the Job Description and Job Advertisement below.
For an informal chat about the position, please contact Brenda Elm, Senior Gardener, on 07862025831.
We are holding our first general meeting of members as a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO) this month. Northern Hull Community Rainbow Gardens was first registered as a charity in 2006. Since then, it’s grown and changed, so last year we registered a new charity under the same name: a CIO. Under this new charitable structure, the garden will continue with all the same activities, and the same people and space, but has its own legal personality. This provides some protection to trustees, from personal liability.
At our General Meeting of Members, we will present the final annual report for the charity, under its previous structure (this report is available on the charities commission website) and our plans for the future. All are welcome to join us.
We will meet virtually, using Microsoft Teams, at 7pm on Tuesday 26th April. If you’d like to request a link to join, please get in touch using the contact button below.
Rainbow Garden Hull - Growing Community