Crisis Skylight garden project

The garden project

Crisis has been given one of the few green sites in East London in which to create a garden for and with our homeless members, and for the local community. The site is the old church yard of our friend and neighbour Christ Church, just up the road from our Skylight centre on Commercial Street. We began to transform it in the spring. As well as being beautiful and giving something back to our community, the gardens will become a centre for learning and skills for our members.

The Skylight Garden project is supported by our local council Tower Hamlets and kindly funded by Pret A Manger.

The garden so far…

• We've weeded, dug in compost and built compost bins
• We've planted new trees, shrubs and lots of wonderful plants
• We are waiting for planning permission to do our hard land- scaping

Garden volunteering opportunities

Contact gardenvolunteers@crisis.org.uk

• Volunteers are needed for regular garden jobs – weeding, raking-up leaves and dead-heading flowers
• We would like volunteers to make a commitment of three months or more to come once a week or every two weeks to help with the garden but we are flexible! All help is appreciated.

Garden Wish List …

• 22 Square metres of York stone paving unevenly sized and 475 100 x 100 York stone setts
• Green oak for handmade benches
• Garden basics: spades, forks, compost, secateurs, loppers, gloves

Thank you to...

• Blom's Bulbs for a stunning selection of bulbs
• Bosch for a shredder and strimmer
• Trimetals of Dorset for the Titan 640 metal garden shed
• Elite Greenhouses of Bolton for a Craftsman Greenhouse
• Flymo for a new mower