Previous activities, projects and ventures include:...
Growing Concerns has restored, recycled & retailed antique & vintage garden tools, implements, furniture & allied artworks & artefacts over two decades, primarily from UK retail venues in Holmfirth, West Yorkshire, Southwold, Suffolk and Cirencester, Gloucestershire....and online.
Many repeat buyers and collectors travelled across country to view & acquire items.
Monies raised have previously helped make diverse creative projects & activities happen over time.....
'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!
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
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!
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
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 ....
