I'm a member of the Leicester and Rutland Gardens Trust and its always a pleasure to asked to do their publicity pictures. We met up with Alison Hodges who's a Vocational Tutor delivering land based studies at Maplewell Hall School near Woodhouse Eves.
The LRGT raises money by organising an annual 'Celebrity Lecture' to fund our Schools into Gardening educational fund and Maplewell have been the recipients of our 2014 grant.
Maplewell is a small school with around 150 pupils with moderate learning difficulties from across the county and city of Leicester. Ages range from 11 to 19 yrs and students come from as far away as Oakham to the West and Measham to the East.
Whilst it is small in terms of student numbers it has extensive, well maintained grounds and we were delighted to see the productive vegetable garden which has recently been installed.
The LRGT grant will go towards tools and equipment.
Maplewell has a lovely atmosphere and the enthusiasm of the students and staff was tangible.
Celebrity lecturer from September 2013 was Cleve West with his talk From Spuds to Chelsea.
The footings for a workshop have been dug out next to the newly installed glass house.
For Celebrity Lecture 2014 we've got Joe Swift coming in Sept. Tickets are selling well and we're looking forward to meeting Joe.
