Southside community gardens secure funding

A NUMBER of Southsidebased community garden projects have won funding to help grow food.

The community food growing fund ‘Energia Get Ireland Growing’ created by GIY (Grow It Yourself) in partnership with Energia has awarded a total of €75,000 to food growing projects all across Ireland.

The teams behind 86 community projects will be awarded funding ranging from €500 to €2,000, with one group receiving €5,000.

All the projects aim to encourage more people to grow their own food within their community.

On the Southside, an Energia Get Ireland Growing funding award goes to St Matthew's NS School Garden, Sandmount, VOICE Food Waste Challenge, Dublin 2 and the Bridgefoot Street Community Garden in Dublin 8.

 Bridgefoot Street Community Garden describe themselves as an all inclusive space.

“We support and assist anyone interested in community gardening,” one member said.

“We have had to fight for the space we grow on and have campaigned for the whole site to be redeveloped into a community park with a community garden.”

and allotments. We have the Dublin Men's Shed , A G.I.Y group and are registered with Change-x. We were established in 2014.”