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01-02-2004, 11:21 PM
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Gardening club - activity ideas needed!!!
"Jane Ransom" wrote in message ... We are in the process of bringing our local 'Horticultural Society' into the twenty first century and are looking for ideas for activities that might attract the younger inhabitants of our village. Without being rude, please, does anyone have any brilliant brain waves that might help us out? -- Jane Ransom in Lancaster. I won't respond to private emails that are on topic for urg but if you need to email me for any other reason, put ransoms at jandg dot demon dot co dot uk where you see You say the 'younger' inhabitants? How young? I was in our Garden Centre today and noticed a stand of 'Children's Garden Tools', why not start or emphasise more the 'Younger' ones and even start a section for them and invite Mum or Dad to join in as well? If the majority only have a small garden do planned evenings/weekends on 'The Handkerchief Garden' and hold a competition. Add Social Evenings into your calendar with 'Bangers and Mash' Evenings, these evenings can be fund raising events for your Society so ask them to bring a prize for a Raffle. Not Horticultural or Gardening themed, but we hold these fund raising evenings and think nothing of making £200.00 or more and have a good evening. "Take over" (with permission of the Council or whoever own them) any small public gardens or flower beds and get people who don't normally have an interest in gardening, to 'help' you to make a display of these beds. (Not my idea, I got roped into doing the beds around the War Memorial and the 'Horse Trough' Flower bed) Hold a Village in Bloom contest. The people who are going to take part register now and the Judging is ........... you decide now so they have something to go for. A Cup and a Certificate to keep AND, you will find your local garden centre/nurseries will donate tokens as prizes, tie all of this up with your local council, they 'might' pay for advertising and/or leaflets to be printed/ distributed. If you want to get the whole village involved there has to be something which will appeal to ALL, like a "100 Club" with £500.00 worth of prizes over the year 'run by the Horticultural Society'. (Just about to launch the same thing here as a start to a £500,000.00 Fund Raising scheme for the local 'Open Space/Sports Field'. BTW you have to be registered with your local council and this will cost you £35.00 and you need the leaflet about the Lotteries and Amusements Act 1976) More ideas? Have a 'Brain Storming' session where every idea is thrown into the pot, no matter how daft. 'Something' could be made of even the most stupid idea. Mike |
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