Display boards to show off our work.

The group have now purchased some fold away display boards that we can use at various events to show case our work and let the wider community see what we get up to. We used these for the first time on Saturday 29th March at the Pudsey Allotment spring flower show and had a lot of interest and encouraging entries in our comments book. The boards fold away and are relatively easy to transport, we will be using them again to display our work to the Yorkshire in Bloom judges when they visit on the 7th April and then again when we have our plant sale on the 17th May at the Pudsey Carnival:

We have a logo.

Thanks to one of our members, Margaret, who has put in a lot of work, we have now adopted a logo for the group, here it is in two forms, look out for both in our future posts and leaflets:

Off to a good start.

The `In Bloom` year is off to a good start, meetings resumed in January and we have one new member which is great. Projects are going well with good development on the Green Leeds project,  where we have been developing a lovely garden area in the leisure centre . Also the funding we received from Community development foundation has enabled us to provide seating in the way of a smart new bench outside Pudsey House with two accompanying flower barrels. Alongside this we have add additional flower troughs around the bus station area. We have other funding applications in the pipeline and will keep the blog updated when we hear more. Here`s to another blooming good year!

 

Why the destruction?!

I wonder why some people just can`t leave well alone, especially when things are looking so nice. Unfortunately over the last few days we have had a spate of vandalism with tubs being overturned completely and plants pulled out and thrown around. We have put things back as they were and the police have promised to investigate but it can be soul destroying and no fun having to put everything back in this freezing cold weather, so please have a heart and respect what others do instead of trying to destroy it!

Thanks to Robert...

Robert has been chair of Pudsey In Bloom for a number of years but has now decided to step down from his role, the group would like to thank him for all the work he has put in and reminded him he will still be `on call`!

More funding ....this time thanks to Asda

On our group Christmas social we were presented with 2 cheques from Asda, £50 for entering their community funding public vote, and also a fantastic additional £300, thanks especially to Sandra Deakin from Asda who nominated Pudsey In Bloom as Asda`s preferred charity to events producer Momentum.

 

We have plans to spend this money on the adjacent piece of land to the one we are currently developing by the leisure centre, it definitely needs working on! Here is what it looks like now:

 

 



More Updates:

Here are the latest photos of the leisure centre garden, it`s really beginning to take shape now:

We have decided to add an extra raised bed next to this one to complete the picture: