Climate Challenge Fund

The South Seeds board secured funding from the Climate Challenge Fund for a year’s project in May 2011. This project started carbon reduction activities in the area by enabling residents to grow food and reduce their energy bills. The project created a community garden at Agnew Lane, worked in tenement backcourts to create composting and raised beds and provided up to the minute energy advice so that residents could access loft insulation, borrow energy monitors or tackle problems with their energy provider.

From engaging directly with residents and working with community groups and agencies across the area, South Seeds devised a plan to deliver further carbon reduction activities to the area. Funding from the Climate Challenge Fund was awarded in June 2012 for two years see here.

South Seeds is putting together the team who will deliver this project.

The Govanhill Sculpture Project

Local residents were given the opportunity to carve shapes from stone. 6 local residents with no previous stone carving experience, chipped away for a number of weeks to produce sculptures.

Funded by the Big Lottery, this project has resulted in sculptures which are now dotted around Govanhill. Here's what some of the residents have been saying about it:

“I would never have had the confidence to try something like this - I wouldn't have known where to start - but Lucinda was generous in sharing her skills and knowledge (and goggles), I realise now how just how much I learned in only a few weeks. After about 8 weeks it all seemed to come together, and I remember suddenly having the thought, I made that!!"

"I love that fact that the pieces we worked on are going to be displayed locally to enhance a public space in the south side - I'm secretly proud about that! Just working on something that's going to make a difference to how the neighbourhood looks is a whole new experience for me. And working with other like-minded people and feeling welcomed as part of a team has inspired me to get more involved.”