Patchwork returns!

After months of fantastic patchwork being created and displayed via Zoom, we were delighted to welcome back our community patchwork group to the HeART space in line with government Covid-19 guidance.
It was fantastic to view some of the creations from our digital patchwork sessions in person and see how they have evolved over the lockdown period. Here's an example of a beautiful hand weaved poncho by Doreen.
The patchwork session runs every Wednesday between 12.45 pm till 2.45 pm at the HeArt space in the Pentagon Shopping Centre, but because of current Covid-19 guidelines spaces are limited so please book in advance. If you are interested in getting involved or know anyone who might be, please get in touch.

Community tree maintenance day! 🌲

Last month, we held a community maintenance day for our Luton Urban Trees project. We were joined by a handful of residents, pupils from Luton Primary School and Local Trust kindly sent down a fantastic photographer to capture the unfoldings.

 

(Picture by Andy Aitchison / Local Trust)

The day was focused around a tree worksheet (1 per tree) where everyone involved answered a series of questions .e.g how tall is the tree, what shapes are the leaves and its species.

 

 

This was a fantastic exercise to learn more about our newly planted trees and to learn how we as local people can influence positive change. This information was gathered and archived so we can monitor the changes in these trees and compare them at our next community maintenance day.

 

 

Planting trees in urban areas isn’t as simple as you might think, that’s why we held a mini-workshop on cable avoidance. It was fantastic to see local children safely finding underground utilities using the CAT4 scanner and to learn together the complexities of urban street tree planting.

 

Keep your eyes peeled for our next community maintenance day. 

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