A team of volunteers from a local business, The V Team, and young adults from Chaos Support came together for the second time in two weeks to plant seedlings and vegetables at Stones Allotment, New Lane, Havant. The event was organised by Community First HEH, with support from Asda Havant and Groundwork South. Janet Duggan, Volunteer Coordinator said “it has been an amazing two days with the volunteers transforming an over-grown allotment plot into a piece of land that is now growing vegetables. The young adults from Chaos Support who have learning difficulties, got involved and planted the herbs for the raised beds which they are hoping to build. Seeing agencies and volunteers working together to help Chaos Support achieve their goal has been truly inspirationalâ€
Chaos Support are working towards growing vegetables to use in their cooking with the concept ‘plot to plate’ where the young adults will play an active part in maintaining the allotment, assisting with the cooking and giving any surplus produce to local community groups. The next phase for the allotment is to build some raised beds and have a decking area so the site is fully accessible. Chaos Support are looking for a businesses to support them with this. For further information, contact Anita Usai on 02392 472061.
If you would like to find out how your business can take part in a similar event or you would like to join The V Team, a friendly volunteering group for people out of work, please contact: Janet Duggan on 0300 500 8085 or email: janet.duggan@cfheh.org.uk (Business Volunteering) or ina.allum@cfheh.org.uk (V Team).