The Big Dig Day is Here
The Big Dig Day will be taking place on Saturday 16th March 2013 and will involve approximately 200 community food-growing gardens across 22 cities/towns in the UK.
This is a great opportunity for people to get down to their local garden and get their hands dirty, learn something new and hopefully decide to continue to help throughout the growing season.
The Big Dig will provide training and advice to over 5,000 community food volunteers, as well as engage 5,000 other volunteers through corporate social opportunities and work with schools.
Volunteers will be recruited through high profile events, and The Big Dig will be particularly focusing on attracting people from deprived areas who traditionally do not volunteer.
The project will also aim to engage with the public through a range of open days and events, reaching over 13,000 people nationally through this work.
Their aim is to involve local people, in creating vibrant community food gardens, which can reduce anti-social behaviour, provide fresh, healthy food and put pride into communities.
To view the gardens already registered for the day and to sign up to volunteer at a garden near you, visit www.bigdig.org.uk.
You will find a map plotting all the participating Big Dig towns and cities and can click on any of them to be taken to a page displaying all the participating gardens in that specific location. Alternatively, search for gardens near you by entering your postcode.
To get in contact about this exciting event please email clare@sustainweb.org ">Clare Horrell or seb@sustainweb.org ">Seb Mayfield or call 020 7837 1228.
The Big Dig are pleased to be able to welcome the following towns/cities: -
- Bournemouth & Poole - Ruralworks
- Bristol - Sims Hill Shared Harvest
- Chippenham - Wiltshire Wildlife Trust
- Southampton - Catch 22
- Southend - Trust Links
- Taunton - Transition Town
- Totnes - Gardening for Health
- Walsall - Walsall Council