Last Updated on: 22nd November 2023, 04:29 pm
Hands of Hope Community Charity is calling on locals to help them secure £54,000 of National Lottery funding to continue their ‘Get Growing’ project tackling food poverty in Rother, Hastings and West Kent. Get Growing, which has already distributed thousands of ‘grow kits’ and tonnes of fresh organic fruit and veg to local food banks, is one of five groups in the running for a share of almost £250,000 of funding from The People’s Projects.
Voting opens at 9am on Monday 15th May at www.thepeoplesprojects.org.uk and will close at 12 noon on Thursday 25th May. A film of Hands of Hope’s Get Growing project will also be aired on ITV Meridian on 19th May.
Mandy Doran, Trustee at Hands of Hope said: “The Peoples Projects is an amazing opportunity to raise awareness and support for our work. With your vote, we can win this additional much-needed funding and continue to fight food poverty in the South East. We now need local people to get behind us, to show their support and vote.”
Get Growing was launched as a direct response to the COVID-19 pandemic in July 2020. To date, the project has delivered thousands of grow kits to families, schools and residents throughout Rother, Hastings and West Kent, as well as providing hundreds of tonnes of fresh, organic fruit and veg to local food banks, all delivered by volunteers.
If successful, the funding will be used to continue their ‘Get Growing’ project, supplying free fresh, healthy fruit and veg to local food banks and distributing 20,000 FREE grow kits to local schools, early years centres, care homes, community groups and residents throughout Rother, Hastings and West Kent – helping everyone to grow their own healthy food.
Quotes from previous Get Growers include: “I was amazed at how much care had gone into producing it, together with such comprehensive instructions etc.” and “The whole project is inspiring at a time of climate crisis and has been a valuable source of connection to all that is good in community. Many thanks.”
Hands of Hope Community Charity is asking locals to show their support and vote for them in The People’s Projects, in order to secure £54,000 of National Lottery funding to continue their ‘Get Growing’ project tackling food poverty. Voting opens at 9am on Monday 15th May and will close at 12 noon on Thursday 25th May. A film of Hands of Hope’s Get Growing project will also be aired on ITV Meridian on 19th May.
