The aims of the project.....

We will be working with school children and local community groups on individual projects to create native species areas within their community. Projects will be individually developed with our expert help. Community groups will be given knowledge about the importance of native species and the interrelationship between, plants, insects and wildlife. They will be provided with plants grown by our volunteers and college students mostly from seeds of a local provenance and seeds that are known to “like” growing on the Isle of Wight.

Project manager Angela Hewitt said “When doing our previous HLF Meadow Makers project we found it virtually impossible to obtain wild flower plants and

seed's of a local provenance. We spoke to other organisations such as Green Gym and the Footprint trust also said there was a deficiency and we realised that there was a need to set up a system where we could provide local communities with native species plants of a local provenance.”

This grant is significantly different to the previous one as we will be going out into the community to help them develop wild flower areas. Community groups such as churches, community associations, parish councils, and schools can all be involved.

This part of the project is called “The Big Plant”. We aim to plant 10,000 wild flower plants in the community.

Angela said “we feel privileged to be given a second grant to continue developing the message about the importance of looking after and developing our wild life habitats with wild flower meadows being our specialty.

Anyone wanting to get involved in this project should in the first instance contact us via our email address naturezones@btconnect.com with details of the area they want to develop. We can help with design and planting scheme.