Grow East Anglia

Great News!

To say we’re excited is a big understatement!

We have been awarded funding to set up a peer mentoring scheme for cared-for-young people.

What does this mean? We plan to work with young people who have recently started living independently and ask them for their experiences of living in care, and, importantly, what messages they would have liked to have had when entering care.

These messages will form short ‘ my story’ videos which we will record and help them to edit, and we will send these on to young people in care in Norfolk to help them on their journey. We will also be publishing details on our website.

We’re also going to be carrying out fun monthly workshops – cookery, craft and art. We’ve been doing this via Zoom, but we can’t wait to get our hands covered in paint and see our participants in person.

Later this year, in August, we plan a grand exhibition of the creations our young people have achieved, and we’d love you to come along and participate. We will have crafts demonstrations, have-a-go art workshops for kids and more.

Thank you to all the National lottery Players who helped to make this project possible. it means a great deal to us and to the young people we work with!

Watch this space for more details about this event to come – or get in touch using the form below and we’ll keep you updated.

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Looking Forward – 2021

It’s been a bumpy ride and I think it’s fair to say we’ve all struggled through Covid as best we can. We’re beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel now, and we’re hoping to get back to what we do best here at Grow East Anglia. Getting out, meeting people, teaching art and crafts and building links in the community.

Zoom has been great – and we’ve had more fun with our on-line cookery and craft sessions than we thought likely when we started, and our garden kits we sent out to young people in lockdown were well received, but we’re glad to hopefully have the chance to get out and muddy into a field or park near you soon!

Wood workshops with the lovely Anna

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Aviva Community Fund

Support our live fundraising bid now with the Aviva Community fund.

Every £1 donated makes a difference, and means we can send out more seed boxes to young people.

https://www.avivacommunityfund.co.uk/growing-kits-for-kids

Drumming fun!

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Whats to come in 2020

We want to say a huge thank you to the National Lottery Players for making our work possible.

We have repurposed some of our fund to send growing kits to young people who may be suffering from loneliness and isolation at this time.

Join me for crafts in the Brome and Oakley Village Hall

A date for your diary – Saturday November the 9th, Brome and Oakley Village Hall. Coffee Morning and table top/jumble sale 10.00am – 2.00pm and we will be there making polymer clay creations!

Grow East Anglia will be there, and we will be making things with polymer clay. You can make your own rings, badges, keyrings and more.

It’ll be a whole lot of fun, and it’s free – so come along and join in!

Graffiti Photography

These pictures were taken at an abandoned gravel pit in Norfolk.

Community allotment

Great for the allotment. A tiny pond means home for hundreds of frogs. They eat insects and are very beneficial

Mini frog

We work with Plot to Pot in Leicester at their community allotment, and hope to bring the ideas we’ve learned to Norfolk and start our own community allotment here soon.