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‘The
Courtyard’. We had a wonderful opening party to celebrate the
completion of a new garden worked on by local young people, volunteers,
project workers, students and local residents. The design was drawn up
by students from the Leeds Met University School of Architecture,
Landscape and Design. They worked alongside our Consultation Worker to
put residents design ideas into practice.
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Youth
Support Workers supported Leeds University students in the organisation
and facilitation of a mosaic sign building workshop at Al Haqq Study
Support Centre housed at the Multicultural Centre on Woodsley Road.
Children and young people were involved in learning mosaic skills and
making a sign for their youth group.
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Kelsall
Avenue street party. We enjoyed an afternoon of sun, fire juggling and
vegetarian cuisine at the Kelsall Avenue street party. It was organised
to celebrate the completion of three gardens on the street:
‘Permaculture Garden’, ‘Sun
Trap’ and ‘Moon garden’. We cooked pizza
in the cob oven we had built in the permaculture garden and made use of
the barbeques built in the two other gardens. It was a great time to
recognise the efforts of the young people and volunteers who were
involved in creating them.
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 We ran a
mosaic workshop at Unity Day 2007. It was a great success with lots of
people of all different ages participating and learning a new skill. It
was also an opportunity for young people who had learnt skills on Hyde
Park Source training courses to pass on their skills to others. When
complete, we installed the mosaic on the side of our building and held
an opening celebration. The mosaic can be viewed from Woodsley Road,
Belle Vue Road and Rosebank Road.
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In
October 2007 we started work on an urban wildlife garden for Rosebank
Primary School. Children, staff, parents, young people, volunteers and
project workers have been involved in building the garden and taking
part in workshops. The garden has a rainbow bench with a pot of gold at
the end, a magical willow tunnel and a beautiful water channel. There
is also a herb bed and two beds for the children and staff at the
school to plant their own vegetables and plants.
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ACE
wall! We supported Armley Community Environmentalists with some
renovation work on Edinburgh Place in Armley. We lowered the front wall
of a garden and used reclaimed bricks from the yard to rebuild the
central wall.
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Brudenell
Primary School. We completed some renovation work for Brudenell Primary
School in their playground area and hope to return in September to work
with children and staff to build a colourful circular mosaic
planter/bench in their school entrance area.
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Innovation Award. We were pleased to accept the Community and City
Pride Award for ‘Innovation of the Year’ for our
permaculture garden. Built on permaculture principles. As part of the
process young people, volunteers, local residents and project workers
were involved in making and using cob, a clay, sand, straw combination
mixed together using bare feet! It was lots of fun and a great team
building activity.
“ In the area where we live none of the houses have gardens
and the only shared outside space was the bin yard where the communal
toilets used to be. Before H P Source converted the yard into a garden
it was dark and dank and used to fill up with rubbish. Now it is open
and light and full of beautiful plants to look at and some herbs we can
eat too. We spend a lot of time in it with our children. Converting the
yard involves all of the people who share it and also enhances the look
of the street as a whole by making some green space and changes it from
being a place to dump stuff to somewhere to take care of and make more
beautiful. ” Philip Greene
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In
summer 2007 we worked in partnership with young people at Youth Point
(an advice and support service for 13 -19s). We supported them in the
design and creation of a garden area in their back yard. For this work
we were runner up in the Community and City Pride category of
Partnership Project of the year.
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