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Growing Concerns has previously helped restore parks & open spaces; improved street scenes; explored & developed outdoor entertainment & events projects; promoted artists & craftspeople; revealed & recycled allied vintage tools, artefacts & skills.
And grown plants.


Previous activities, projects and ventures over 25 years include:

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'Get people growing' campaigns  - 
Encouraging, developing and creating gardening projects, gardening heritage and social gardening ventures: junk planting, front garden upgrades, street scene adventures, guerrilla gardening, gardening traditions of yore...


 
​Regenerating places

Developed, devised and implemented projects and programmes to re-launch or regenerate outdoor places & spaces. Heritage research, project planning, funding development, professional allies and inspiration found and fought for!

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Event management: "Call of the Drum Festival" - devising & programming al fresco community festival for Manchester Museum (natural history centre)


Community support development & ideas input - e.g. Sparrows Nest Park, Lowestoft; Bonds Meadow, Oulton Broad, Suffolk

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Project management: Friends of Beaumont Park, Huddersfield - overseeing 29 acre Victorian park regeneration and restoration programme funded by UK National Lottery. 
​Exploration and reconstruction of neglected landscape; press & promotion; programming usage and arts and heritage activities - attracting up to
​7000 people a day.



Users of spaces - Makers of places: creating/devising cultural events and live productions both outdoors and eco-issues related indoors - from exhibitions to stage plays, concerts to site-specific adventures. 

Consultancy: parks and open spaces development possibilities, bids, usage diversity and community enterprise projects numerous 

Coordinated eco-art exhibitions: works with an environmental theme - by artists various, alongside vintage and heritage horticultural and agricultural artefacts.

Project management: social gardening adventure in Holmfirth, West Yorkshire - Growth Industry - shop and neighbourhood front garden programme around the town - improving street scene and environmental awareness. Planned to run six months, actually ran 18 months due to popularity & success!

Event management: devising and coordinating innumerable private al fresco events, sales, functions and life-stages celebratory occasions.

Retail venues & events - see GC Finds & Retail page ....                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                   

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