from fly-tipping to flower picking

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Gardens

RamseyFlowersN1 – from fly-tipping to flower picking – was a local gardening group supported by Islington’s park team, Feb 2017 to Sep 2020. Some of its original residents continue to maintain their established gardens but the charity no longer operates.

This was a local guerrilla gardening group ran by the residents of Ramsey Walk  was created on February 2017 to tackle fly-tipping. Our motto was ‘from fly-tipping to flower picking’. We relied on donations from local business and volunteers in around Ramsey Walk, N1. We up-lifted and maintained four gardens where before fly-tipping and ASB occurred.

  • St Paul’s park alleyway, with the support Islington Council
  • St Pauls Woodlands with support from Greenspaces Parks Team
  • 24-27 Ramsey Walk in partnership with Southern Housing
  • Upper Ramsey Walk with the support of Islington Homes

We lifted up fly-tipping areas and created tailored resident gardens and sustainable models for residents to run within 12 months. How? We taught locals about gardening, organised admin behind the scenes, referrals, health & safety, insurance and provided basic tools, knowledge and resources to maintain the gardens. We supported 4 garden projects in our street and park besides running 7 core volunteer sessions in the park. We eliminated fly-tipping whilst also promoting wellbeing through gardening activities.

Our approach to projects revolved around:

  • make it simple
  • have fun
  • stay mobile
  • keep it real

RamseyFlowersN1@gmail.com
+44 (0) 7940 983288

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2019 update

Ramsey Flowers, our local residents and friends of Ramsey Walk on N1, enters its third summer helping bloom our street, park and Estate gardens. Last year we’ve received funding from Islington Local Initiatives fund, all of this with your continued support, from our first Homebase donation, wood from Awesome CIC, our first grant from Southern Housing in 2017, the parks team inviting us to become Friends of St Paul’s park, GoodGym and their runners who helped us clear the woodland overgrowth, CityYogiUK for offering yoga events, our hard working councillors and many others. There is still much to do, so if you can lend a hand by helping us apply for grants or with our website, simply email:

Last year we have been focussed on admin and a little help means we can go back to offering more open gardening sessions for those who wish to get involved.
Alternatively keep looking after our street and park gardens when you walk, by keeping things tidy, watering or even claiming a corner for yourself (email us).
Social media – we could use more social media likes or uploads on Google maps, our hashtag and handles are:
#flowerpower
@ramseyflowersN1
 
Small green areas such as the ones we look after strengthen the network for wildlife and cross polination. We have sighted over 10 different types of birds, including a wood pecker and plenty of other wildlife such as frogs, bats and many bees. In the woodlands we now have wild herbs such as jack by the hedge, wild garlic, cheekweed and confrey.

Our little green bits also help bring people out of their flats, socialise and keep active, especially with our new initiative inside Upper Ramsey, providing less able residents with a bit of green outside their front door.

 

The beginning 

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My name is Paola, I was a local resident of Ramsey Walk whom started this initiative by lifting -up the neglected alleyway between St Paul’s park and 27 Ramsey Walk.Only four months after its start the project expanded down the road where another resident transformed a fly-tipping corner in front of 24 Ramsey Walk.During the initial planting of the St Paul’s alleyway more than 20 passerby from both sides of Essex Rd expressed their delight and offered help.This couldn’t been possible without the trust and support from Greenspace, Islignton Council and Southern Housing whom share responsibility for this area.Since the planting of the first gardens we noticed a decrease in ASB such as aggressive cycling through the area with zero fly tipping.From that point on the group grew naturally attracting locals as members including tenants of the Marquess Estate leading us to become a small charity.