A group of volunteers is going to move an entire medal-winning garden from Chelsea flower show to Watling Gardens over the next few days. As you can imagine, this is a major undertaking.
We could use some help on the following:
We need about 4 pairs of steel toecap boots – various sizes. We cannot get into Chelsea without. Also High viz jackets. I have tried B&Q, Moran and the Cricklewood Army & Navy store
We basically need all the volunteers we can get – with or without boots!
We are looking at collecting from Chelsea on Monday morning, unloading in the afternoon/evening.
Then most of next week Veolia volunteers will need help planting.
Please email cllr.lia.colacicco@brent.gov.uk
This a truly inspirational project. If anyone is interested please take a look at my Twitter @LiaColacicco. Loads of BBC coverage too.
Launched at the recent RHS Chelsea Flower Show and designed by up-and-coming designer Naomi Ferret Cohen, the CHERUB HIV garden has found a new home in Watling Gardens.
The ‘Life Without Walls’ garden is a landmark project for, and about, people living with HIV. The garden centres on a young person living with HIV and the journey they face, exploring stigma and marginalisation. The white pod at the top of the garden represents the NHS clinics the young people attend, a cocoon of safety from the outside world.
The garden supports CHERUB, a collaboration between the NHS and universities working to find a cure for HIV, and CHIVA, an organisation providing support for young people growing up with HIV that is linked to NHS clinics at Northwick Park Hospital in Brent and St Mary’s Paddington.
The garden will be tendered by users of Ashford Place dementia cafe and their carers and provide support and pleasure to people living with HIV.