ActivLives Chantry Walled Garden 2023

Description

ActivLives is a local independent charity working in Ipswich and across Suffolk. They work towards keeping people active, connected and involved with their local community through accessible sports and exercise, learning new skills and volunteering opportunities.

They have numerous sites across Ipswich however our event will be based at the Chantry Walled Garden. This is a heritage walled garden in a public park, with flower borders and vegetable-growing areas, as well as extensive glasshouses as part of our plant nursery.

We spent the morning helping ActivLives charity maintain their new walled garden area. With a number of fruit trees situated around the grounds, it is important for them to be watered regularly however the ActivLives team couldn't access them due to all the overgrown bramables, nettles and grass.

The Do Good Networking volunteers made light work of clearing the area around each tree and making a pathway throughout the garden to ensure all the trees can be accessed during the hot summer months.