Rose Hill Junior Youth Club Community Planter
A community planter to connect the local community to nature and improve biodiversity outside the Community Centre
OCF’s Thriving in Nature grant aims to improve and enhance lives through green spaces. Our work at Rose Hill Junior Youth Club (RHJYC) over the next three years will focus on developing a range of free support for children, young people and adults, who will have access to wellbeing in nature social groups, exciting nature activities and community initiatives.
We have so far focussed on running our allotment which children from local schools and our Youth Club as well as our weekly adult wellbeing group have been nurturing and enjoying our allotment space. We have also offered families and adults trips to visit local green and natural spaces which have been well attended. In the community we have run nature and art workshops alongside a recent Nature Day as part of Big Green Week at the Community Centre. It is through these community outreach activities that we have learnt that there are still barriers from accessing our work and natural spaces more generally. These include mobility issues but also cultural and societal barriers (mental health, accessing language) too. This has given us the idea of working with our local community to create a natural space outside our Community Centre which will be designed to be wheelchair accessible and enjoyed by all.
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Plant(er) life
Wednesday 4th March
Written by Becky (She/her)
A balmy spring (yay!) evening saw us back at Rose Hill Junior Youth Club, picking up our help with their preparations for new planters, to make the site just that little bit brighter.
Standing on the ground we'd previously cleared of shrubs, Meg ran us all through what was needed - part filling the newly delivered planters with small pieces of wood and topping up with compost from a GIGANTIC compost sack - a great arm and abs workout.
With so many of us, we even managed to form a splinter group to pick up some of the litter both on- site and in the surrounding streets - featuring chat about what makes a good litter picker (good grippy prongs) and multiple fun running and cycling escapades.
Looking forward to seeing the planters in all their glory!
Welcome to the group, Elsa!
Flood-lit flowerbeds
Wednesday 12th November 2025
Written by Bethan Greenaway
This evening we were back at the Rose Hill Community Centre to tackle the garden space for the Rose Hill Junior Youth Group.
Armed with tools, fortified with Meg's lovely flapjacks and lit by a combination of football pitch floodlights, head torches and rechargeable potable lights, we managed to get a lot done.
More roots were cleared and scrubby plants removed. I really hope that we managed to protect the bulbs planted by the nursery earlier in the week!
Chat ranged from holiday planning, winter recipies, food and book recommendations.
Good work team!!
Root and branch review
Wednesday 22nd October 2025
Written by Anwen Greenaway
Last night we were called in to help clear a patch of ground outside Rose Hill Community Centre. There's a plan in place to turn it into a functional garden space with raised beds for the Rose Hill Junior Youth Club, but it's currently overrun with cotoneaster. Armed with secateurs, pruning saws, and forks we chopped, sawed and dug until the light failed, then switched on the portable lights and headtorches to finish up.
We haven't completely cleared the ground, but we've made a good start!
Thank you for keeping us fueled with biscuits and melon Meg.