THE Heart of Scotstoun’s community garden has been improved thanks to funding from Volunteering Matters’ Action Earth project.

Gardeners from the community centre along with colleagues from Green Gym were delighted to use the funding to improve their local environment and to make the community garden more sustainable.

A team of 20 volunteers helped weed the newly established flower beds and spread a mulch of landscape bark on the bed areas and orchard spaces in preparation for winter.

The community garden is a new resource for the Scotstoun community, and the volunteer gardeners have benefitted from the support of Volunteering Matters Action Earth both this year and last year.

They have accessed funds to bring together volunteers to plant trees, fruit and vegetables and flowering plants in a derelict, post-industrial site that once held the premises of the Albion Motor Works.

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June Mitchell, lead gardening volunteer of the Green Garden project, said: “Everybody can get involved in their local outdoor spaces.

“They are a shared resource and a shared responsibility. From the smallest individual action to a national campaign, every contribution helps.

“The Volunteering Matters Action Earth grants are designed to help groups of volunteers take practical action to improve and create places for wildlife.”

The organisation will be supporting around 170 projects in Scotland in 2019 with grant awards of up to £500. These grants are aimed at groups who support and encourage volunteer activity through practical environmental projects.

Visit volunteeringmatters.org.uk/actionearth for more information.