Growing Connections: Guide to an inclusive and welcoming community garden

This guide outlines the principles to age-friendly and inclusive volunteering, shares best practice and provides a tool to self-review community food projects’ inclusivity. Growing Connections is a project of Sustain, funded by the Centre for Ageing Better and DCMS through the Age-friendly and inclusive volunteering programme.

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Growing Connections: Guide to an inclusive and welcoming community garden
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Reports • Capital Growth

Published: Monday 3 August 2020

Food Co-ops Toolkit

This guide covers:

  • Introduction to the guide and project
  • Core values
  • Principles
    • Be flexible and responsive.
    • Help people feel enabled and supported.
    • Be sociable and connected.
    • Make people feel valued and appreciated.
    • Make things meaningful and purposeful.
    • Make use of strengths.
  • Acknowledgements
  • Inclusivity self-review

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