'Previously......' since 2004...
Growing Concerns has restored, recycled & retailed antique & vintage garden tools, implements, furniture & allied artworks & artefacts over many years, primarily from UK retail venues in Southwold, Suffolk, and previously in Holmfirth, West Yorkshire and currently in Cirencester, Gloucestershire..
Many repeat buyers and collectors travelled across country to view & acquire items.
Monies raised have helped make diverse creative projects & activities happen over time.....
Previous activities, projects and ventures include:
'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
'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
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 ....
Ongoing - sssh: guerrilla gardening!
