| Hulme
Community Garden Centre (HCGC) is a unique community led
inner-city horticultural project. Our mission is to bring the local
community together through gardening. As a not-for-profit organisation
we provide low-cost plants to the local community but we are foremost a
volunteer and education hub promoting horticultural and sustainability
issues to schools, colleges, the local community and wider public. We
are a community resource in two of Manchester's most deprived areas,
Hulme and Moss Side, providing a community garden space and running
free workshops for the local community, a wide range of socially
excluded groups (in particular people with learning disabilities and/or
mental health problems), schools and voluntary organisations. HCGC is
underpinned by organic principles and promotes sustainability,
horticulture and the environment, civic engagement and voluntary
activity, urban gardening and food production, independent living,
health and well-being.
We also provide back to work and skills training and placements for
longer-term unemployed people. We have been established for 10 years
and now welcome over 5,000 visitors per annum, all of whom have access
to free expert horticultural advice |
