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On Monday 27th July, our Gardener in Residence, @m

On Monday 27th July, our Gardener in Residence, @msdmeanar, led a community tidy-up of our secret garden. The hot summer weather has unfortunately taken its toll on the grass, while encouraging nettles and brambles to flourish. A thick layer of dried cleavers had also spread across the space like a carpet.

As Deb is making paper from nettles, we started by harvesting those. We then cleared one of the large planters at the back of the garden before turning our attention to cutting back the brambles, raking away the dried cleavers and creating clear pathways throughout the space. We also left a few "wild" islands to encourage biodiversity and provide habitats for wildlife.

After all our hard work, we enjoyed a well-earned chippy lunch together while admiring the transformation. We can't wait to start using this beautiful space for some of our activities!

A huge thank you to all the volunteers who came along and lent a hand, we couldn't have done it without you!

Good morning from everyone at PIP, here's what we'

Good morning from everyone at PIP, here's what we've got on over the next couple of weeks.

PLEASE NOTE: There will be no Youth Club on the 11th August due to the PIP Kitchen event.

We have partnered with the @hubbfoundation who have offered us a number of HAF (Holidays and Food) sessions across our summer programme. On Tuesdays and Thursdays only from the 21st July - 13th August, our sessions will include a free lunch provided by @theslamwichclub, Stoke, for every child who attends (up to 20 children and on a first come first served basis). Food will be served around 12pm. Because these are funded sessions, we will need to take a register of all attendees on the day.

This week:

🌻 Tuesday 4th August
⏰ 12 - 4pm
📍 Gardening Club at The Pippin & Secret Garden (HAF session with free lunch provided by Slamwich)

🤾‍♀️ Tuesday 4th August
⏰ 4 - 5.30pm
📍 Youth Club at The Pippin

🪑 Tuesday 4th August
⏰ 6 - 9pm
📍 Upholstery Group Workshop at Acava Studios

♻️ Thursday 6th August
⏰ 12 - 4pm
📍 Swap Shop at The Pippin (HAF session with free lunch provided by Slamwich)

⚽ Saturday 8th August
⏰ 3 - 4.30pm
📍 Sports at the Park

Next week:

🥙 Tuesday 11th August
⏰️ 12 - 4pm
📍 PIP Kitchen Prep at The Pippin (HAF session with free lunch provided by Slamwich)

🥙 Tuesday 11th August
⏰️ 5 - 6.30pm
📍 PIP Kitchen Dining with S.M.U.T at The Pippin (invitations going out asap! Pls see last slide!)

🚒 Thursday 13th August
⏰️ 12 - 4pm
📍 Services Day at The Pippin (HAF session with free lunch provided by Slamwich)

🥳 Saturday 15th August
⏰️ 12 - 4pm
📍 Summer Party at The Pippin

Have a lovely week :-)

👘🧥👚🧢🧦SWAP SHOP!!! 👖🧣👗👚🧢

Brought to you by Youth Voice Matters! You heard it here first! PIP’s Youth Board have decided on their name and their first social action event!
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Huge thanks to @michael_d_kennedy for leading some rad workshops with our youth club and youth panel to generate ideas for Youth Voices Matters name and identity. And THiS brilliant poster campaign for YVM social action projects!
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This THURSDAY 6 August ~ 12-4pm SWAP CLOTHES at 1-3pm!!

Today was all about our local mosses and taking pa

Today was all about our local mosses and taking part in a moss safari led by Jenna, Natural History curator @potteriesmuseum - first we located a variety of mosses living around the green space before spending time looking closely at it and identifying the names of our local mosses - we met Springy turf moss, Silver moss, lateral cryphaea, silky wall feather moss, rough stalked feather moss and common haircap. We also looked under a microscope to learn about the micro invertebrates living on our local mosses too - and found, nematodes, mites, a diatom and most exciting - a tardigrade! We discussed what we can learn about our area from the mosses, and how old they are as organisms. We then created paintings of the mosses we found which will be used for our upholstery fabric design soon. #portlandthinkbelt Thanks so much to the museum (and especially Jenna @palaeo_scene ) for sharing your skills with us today.