Garden Centre

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28 Old Birley Street
Hulme
Manchester
M15 5RG
Tel: 0161 227 8198
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Open everyday except Monday 11am - 5pm

Extra December opening hours
Tues - Fri
11am - 6pm

Hulme Community Garden Centre
Your first stop for organically grown plants, helpful friendly advice
and community gardens to relax in.

HCGC Opening Times HCGC is open Tuesday - Sunday 11am - 5pm
	Welcome to Hulme Community Garden Centre's Website We aim to provide infomation about what we provide and who can access it. You will find that we are not just a garden centre within Hulme but have a hive of activites for all. This can be from volunteering, being part of our management committee to coming along to our parent and toddler session. Hopefully you will see that we are a central part of the community and that we are unique to Manchester. For more information follow these links below Garden Centre, Education, Volunteering, Community Gardens, Current funders, Work Placements, Community Organisations, Design and Consultations, Facilitiy Hire, Corporate Challenge Days, History of HCGC, Future Plans
HCGC has Chip and Pin We have now got chip and pin facilities at the centre. You can now use you card for any purchases over £5. For regular customers you will know that for a long time we would only accept cash or a cheque but I hope you will be shouting for joy at this great news. Hope to see you all here to use you card!!!
New photo archive In the next few weeks we are going to create some new pages for our website. These pages will consist of photo's old and new which will show the development of the centre from when it was first created. This will also mark the start of our 10 years Summer Celebration, which is to celebrate 10 years of HCGC. Keep watching for futher developments
Summer Celebration This year marks 10 years of HCGC so to celebrate we are having a Summer Celebration on Sat 6th September. To get the party started we are looking for people to help in anyway. Whether it be music, food, activities. Do you make jewellery, crafts or anything noval that you would like to sell on the day? Do you have any suggestion as to what would be a great way to celebrate, then give us a ring or email in.
New Hulme Herb Walk Date - Thursday 7th August 7:00-9pm After the great success of the first herb walk Tim Moorhouse will be holding another walk around Hulme. On Thursday 7th August you can meet Tim in the centre for a talk and herbal tea at 7pm before heading out and about Hulme for 7:30pm. Donations to the Garden Centre welcomed. No dogs or unaccompanied children. As the terrain is also wild, sturdy footwear is recommended!
	Mosaic Stepping Stone Workshops – For Children HCGC will be hosting two workshops in association with Tracey Cartledge. The workshops will be on Saturday 9th and 16th August from 11am til 3:30pm (includes 1 hour lunch). The workshops cost £35 per child and all children must be 7 or over. Each child will need to be accompanied by an adult as some aspects of the workshops can be quite tricky for little fingers. Places are limited as there are only 10 places per workshop. For more information and for booking please contact Tracey directly on 0161 860 0387 or via email info@traceycartledge.co.uk
	DIY Fruit and Veg Workshops Many thanks for all you interest. We would love to run the workshops again in the future and add different themes to the workshops. We will hopefully be running a wreath making workshop towards the end of November but between now and then we are open to ideas and suggestions. If you would like to contact use about any of our workshops please emails us on info@hulmegardencentre.org.uk
New Companion Plant Garden Come and visit our new companion plant garden that have been built in the Community Gardens. We were selected by Fujitzu to take part in there graduate programme where they have to manage a project from start to finish and produce something for the community. The worked really hard on the day of construction and produced a fantastic new area in the gardens. Many thanks to all at Fujitsu. To see more photo's of the garden visit our Community Gardens page.
	Parent & Toddlers HCGC has a P&T morning every other Thursday from 11am-12pm and costs £2 per session. Our P&T page is now up an running with dates and activities for the next few months plus some photos of what the toddlers have been up to.
	Crafts in the shop Our shop is now brimming with handmade crafts. We have hand rolled candles, mouse mats, magnets and calendars containing original artwork, soaps, spritsers, healing balms and incenses and handmade purses and bags. We also have HCGC chutney, relish, cider vinegar and jams and colourful handmade cards. See Products page for more details on whats on offer.
Over 60's day Every Tuesday at Hulme Community Garden Centre is now 10% off for the over 60s. Why not come and see what we have available. We've currently got in a large selection of spring bulbs - Daffodils, tulips, snowdrops, hyacinth's, bluebells, whatever you need.
HCGC Newletter Hulme Community Garden Centre has a Newsletter which is sent out at the end of every month updating you on what we have been doing and any future events we are involved in. If you would like to be sent the newsletter please email info@hulmegardencentre.org.uk to be added to the mailing list.

FUTURE EVENTS 2008
2008 New Hulme Herb Walk Date - Thursday 7th August 7:00-9pm Mosaic Stepping Stone Workshops – For Children Sat 9th & 16th August 11am til 3:30pm Summer Celebration - Sat 6th Sept 11am til 5pm Apple and Pumpkin Day - Sun 19th Oct 11am til 5pm For more information on events have a look at our events page. If you would like to have a stall at any of our events please contact us on Info@hulmegardencentre.org.uk or call 0161 227 8198
July's Gardening tip
	Get your winter vegetables in now It is time to get all your winter veg in the ground now. This allows them to establish before the winter months. We have a selection of vegetables avaliable now in the nursery. Chard, Spinach, winter cabbage are just a few thing that are good to go in at the moment.

Community Garden - The Gardens have seen a dramatic change over the last few weeks as we have developed a new area of the garden. The old grass maze has been ripped out and has been replaced with our new companion planting garden, which includes new fruit trees and companion planting.		Garden Centre We have a large selection of plants for all types of garden and can make suggestions for the smallest spaces and balcony plants.
		Karen and Kath's plant of the moment Hanging Baskets

Comments about HCGC

' A fab place, can't want to get planting the plants I bought. Your garden is beautiful'
Tanya, Reddish (Comments book - August 07)

''Health wise I have to say doing a days volunteering at HCGC is a better work out than going to any gym. It also has the added bonus of helping to cope with a stressful job, day to day life and just by being outside in the fresh air'
Andrew, Volunteer

'Wonderful, Inspiring. Generated enthusiasm and ideas'
Visitor from a community project in Wales (Comments book - July 07)

We are a not-for-profit charity bringing the local community together through gardening. For more on what we are about see our Visions and values page. Registered charity no: 28958R