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Provide site, fund materials, project management support, use of German Gymnasium facilities (toilets, meeting room, evening events in exhibition space), volunteer hours, PR and promotion, use of office space

The Guardian and Observer, BAM, BAM Nuttall, Carillion, Kier, Big Lottery, London Borough of Camden, Konstam, UCL

King's Cross Central Skip Garden

Next to the Stanley Building you will find the King's Cross Central Skip Garden, a self-sustaining vegetable garden with a twist - it's moveable. As different areas in King's Cross Central are developed, the skips will be moved to new locations and continue to produce their harvest of vegetables. The Skip Garden has been created and gardened by volunteers from the Guardian and the Observer, young people from the area and construction apprentices. The site and materials have been provided by King's Cross Central, BAM, BAM Nuttall, Carillion and Kier. The hoardings were designed by illustrator, Lucinda Rogers, and painted by a group of King's Cross Central and Global Generation volunteers.

Global Generation, part-funded by the Big Lottery, is managing the project and directing the gardening. The project is part of Global Generation's network of sites that help to create a productive, bio-diverse and social ecology in King's Cross. Global Generation is supporting young people to play a pivotal role in transforming cities and the way we live in them.
Outputs June 2009 - May 2010:

Outputs from Skip and Hoop Gardens include:
- 457 children and young people trained in Skip Garden;
- 68 business volunteers;
- 140 adults participating in UCL Growing Food - Growing People;
- 300 plus additional visitors.


Outcomes include:
- Ongoing support for Skip Garden and expansion to Hoop Garden;
- Inspired projects elsewhere and influenced national policy (e.g. meanwhile leases launched by DEFRA at the Skip Garden); and
- Employment and education outcomes

"During the days following the big build event at the skip garden a sense of achievement and gratification was all over the place and in every skip, it was something good and something that mattered, that we made together for King's Cross."
Zac Nur, GG Generator (16 years) on the skip garden experience

"Global Generation offers an opportunity, a chance to develop an understanding of not only the damage and danger that is being caused to the environment, but a solution that we pose inside ourselves to change it. Being part of Global Generation allows you to discover realistic avenues to enable the change to work more effectively and to change the way you are."
Keisha 17 years

"What's different about what we do at Global Generation is that not only do we change the outside, we change the inside too."
Ciara Monahan 17 years

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