Rickleton Community Gardening Club

The club used their £350 funding to buy spades, forks, rakes, leaf gatherers and a trolley for the garden.

Rickleton Community Gardening Club members using equipment purchased through Gentoo's Community Grant programme to maintain and develop the community garden.

Rickleton Community Gardening Club has been awarded £300 through our Community Grant programme (formerly Aspire Grant programme).

Every Tuesday it hosts a gardening club for local children from Rickleton Primary School. Pupils from the school worked with the volunteers to create a new woodland path and planters filled with herbs and flowers.

The Washington based club used the funding to buy spades, forks, rakes, leaf gatherers and a trolley for the garden.

Anita Bargewell, a volunteer at Rickleton Community Gardening Club said: “We are very grateful to Gentoo for the grant funding through the Aspire programme. The children were so excited to use the new equipment – there's always a queue on a Tuesday lunchtime for the gardening club.

“Everyone who works at the garden volunteers their time because we care about the community and want to make it a nice place to live. We work hard, but it's worth it and the children love it.”

Rickleton Community Gardening Club members and local school pupils with gardening tools.