Age UK Yalding Centre

We started collaborating with Age UK in April 2019 when we developed and all year round veg patch from Rocket Garden at their Yalding Centre in Bermondsey.

With the help of Debbie Mitchener, Hands on London, and poqcommerce, we planted out over 130 vegetables. This provide the basis for us to set up a weekly club where older people who attended the centre could make use of their green fingers and help tend to the vegetables.

We aimed to make the garden sustainable and not only does it provide people with the opportunity to get outside, it also provides ingredients for lunches that are served up on site!

Since then we have also hosted several groups of young volunteers, who helped clear and plant out other areas in the Age UK garden. Moving forward, there are plans to install a potting shed and redesign the layout of the raised beds to make them more accessible. We are looking forward to returning and being part of these exciting plans when it is safe to do so.