A new scheme has been launched offering free tool hire and training to community groups who want to help transform their neighbourhoods. Neighbourhood Tool Train on track for spring
A new scheme has been launched offering free tool hire and training to community groups who want to help transform their neighbourhoods.
Many groups across the city are already involved in creating community gardens and similar schemes to make their area a greener and cleaner place to live. Others are keen to join in, and this scheme will give them a helping hand to get started.
Free training courses for up to ten people are available on a variety of topics including making hanging baskets, composting, and nature conservation. The courses last for a half-day or full day and are run by a qualified horticultural trainer at the Training House at Woodthorpe Park, near the Nottingham City Council nursery.
Under the scheme - known as the Neighbourhood Tool Train - groups can also borrow tools, including forks, spades, wheelbarrows, watering cans, litter pickers and secateurs. There are also tools suitable for people with disabilities.
John Robinson, Nottingham City Council Services Director for Street Scene, says: “The Neighbourhood Tool Train is an original idea to help local people get active in improving the area in which they live. Sometimes groups have the spark of an idea but don’t have the resources to take it any further. This scheme helps with tools and training and also offers the possibility of support from the Neighbourhood Environmental Action Teams and our apprentice gardeners.”
Many groups across the city are already becoming actively involved in transforming their neighbourhood by joining in the city’s Big Spring Clean.
More details about the Neighbourhood Tool Train are available by emailing tooltrain@nottinghamcity.gov.uk or by phoning 0115 915 2780.