Treasurer Andrew Green outlines how covid-19 and other factors have affected the Triangle Garden's financial situation:
The year was dominated by the impact of COVID-19 on our activities, and those effects are likely to continue well into the next financial year.
Here's an update from our community events team on what we have and haven't been able to do this year:
As you can imagine this piece on events and workshops is going to be quite short but we hope you enjoy it and perhaps get inspired to join our merry band on the events committee!
Here's a short update on what's been happening at Ransom's Pavilion this year by Vicky Wyer of the TCG premises and safety committee:
After 2018’s injection of funding and redecoration TLC to our wonderful little Pavilion, we were able to really capitalise on its community value last year with a full calendar of workshops planned by Tuuli Parker Jewellery and dye-plant experts Nature’s Rainbow, not to mention the children’s parties that usually book out weekend afternoons. So much promise and so great to see the Pavilion finally being used by the community to its full potential!
COVID -19 has had an impact on every aspect of our work at Triangle Garden,including the Garden Club. Here Garden Committee chair Fiona Dolman reflects on the year more broadly and also talks about the impact of COVID on our activities during 2020:
If you've been wondering what's been happening at our Growing Ability projects since we closed the service in March, we have now reopened (in July) and here's an update from Project Manager Liz McElroy:
Never before has our project been of such benefit and importance to so many people in our community. With the life changing effects we have all been immersed in throughout the pandemic, individuals have come together to form stronger bonds of solidarity and register their appreciation towards the continued support and development of our projects.
In a short blog post Chair of Trustees Vicky Wyer considers some of the positives that have emerged over the last year:
This is the year the Triangle Garden should have been celebrating its 20th anniversary and the Pavilion its 10th. However it’s never good to dwell on what might have been, and a missed anniversary is a very small problem to have had. Let’s focus on the positives:
Change has happened so fast this past month it has been hard to keep up. No sooner have we held a Coronavirus meeting, revised risk assessments and issued communications than the situation changes, leaving hours of spent time useless in its wake. Obviously this is a minor inconvenience in the scheme of things but the need for decision making has been relentless, with the guidance often running two paces behind what has felt morally right, leaving organisations like us who work with vulnerable people, in a dilemma.
If you’d like to cut your carbon this Christmas why not try some of the suggestions below around reducing your consumption. We'd love to hear your ideas too - just email us at [email protected]
Changing your eating habits is one very effective way that individuals can lower their carbon footprint. According to Mike Berners-Lee, author of ‘How Bad are Bananas? The Carbon Footprint of Everything’, the food we buy makes up around 20% of our carbon footprint. In the UK that’s 170 million tonnes of CO2e which is almost as much as we emit on household fuel and electricity put together!
Last month we looked at holiday travel, this month I'd like to devote to actions to reduce your carbon footprint around food. But for this I'm going to need your help!
I'd like to gather together lots of useful resources that people find helpful on the following topics:
