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Community centre brings new life to its back garden

The community around the Belgrave Neighbourhood Community Housing Association have transformed its garden into a paradise for wildlife and a place of sanctuary for people too.
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Photo coyright / The Wildlife Trusts 2024

Belgrave Housing Coop Leicester
We hope that going forward this is a space that members of the public and the community know is available to them.

These two inspiring videos show how a disused space behind a community centre was transformed by local people. With the help of residents, volunteers and Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust, this patch of land will offer a peaceful spot for years to come.

Nextdoor Nature and The Belgrave Neighbourhood Coop Housing Association, Leicester, September 2023 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njkPgUE_eK4)

9 months later, we returned to Belgrave Neighbourhood Coop Housing Association to see how the project had progressed. Watch the video below to see how the community worked with local organisations to create a vegetable garden and an amazing wildlife-friendly pond. 

Nextdoor Nature revisits Leicester's Belgrave Housing Coop Summer 2024 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGHhJV-qOFY)

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Please attribute as: “Nextdoor Nature (2022-2024) by The Wildlife Trusts funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund, licensed under CC BY 40”