We have had so much going on lately I haven’t been on here for a while. I’ve got so much to talk about! With the help of our brilliant volunteers we made the most of the sun and managed to finally get the polythene on our massive tunnel. It needs Read more
Now that the builders have been into the Medway block and redone the ceiling and doors, we have a lot of stuff to get rid of,including all of the classroom stuff that just got left in there and we’ve hired a skip so we’d love it if we could get Read more
What a brilliant workshop we had this morning. Such an enthusiastic group of weavers making quite frankly massively impressive garden obelisks which involved some interesting manoevering to get out of the hall and into cars (a mini and a golf amongst them!) . Ruth Thompson of Sylvan Skills patiently taught Read more
We were really lucky to have a fantastic group of young people come and volunteer for us from Newcastle University’s Biodiversity Conservation and Ecosystem management MSc course on Wednesday. They worked their blimmin socks off and made such a difference by cutting back our wildly overgrown willow, furiously digging the pathways Read more
We’re delighted that the Allen Valleys Knit and Crochet Group have chosen us as one of their charities of 2018. The group will be holding an Exhibition and Sale of Work on Saturday 9th June at Catton Village Hall and will be running a raffle, tombola and cake stall to Read more
This week is Mental Health Awareness week. Since starting on this project (three years ago gasp!) I’ve had so many conversations with close friends, family and even relative strangers about how mental illness has had a direct impact upon their lives and it is so much more than I ever Read more
We had an amazing volunteer day on Saturday. It was gorgeous and sunny (just like we ordered) and our volunteers got stuck into digging over the Medway building garden, staking and mulching our Hornbeam hedge and making doors for the poly-tunnel. Thanks to each and every one of you for Read more
Higher Ground are delighted that artist Ruth Thompson from Sylvan Skills is hosting this fantastic workshop on Sunday 10th June from 10:00am -1:00pm at Catton Village hall for our project next month. Learn to weave your own willow obelisk and create a beautiful piece to take away for your Read more
Now that the site is a bit dryer, there’s an awful lot of work to do so we’re holding a volunteer day on Saturday May 5th and hope as many as possible of you can join us. There’s a range of jobs from cutting back willow, moving compost, planting, mulching, digging, staking… Read more
We’ve been so frustrated here because of all of the water on site. Snow melt and constant downpour had brought our groundwork to a standstill for such a long time, but battling through the mud we have managed to get the poly tunnel frame up and it’s looking impressively like Read more