The Key Garden project is a major collaboration between several different partners.
The organisations involved are:
Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) is the government’s national housing and regeneration agency. We provide funding for affordable housing, bring land back into productive use and improve quality of life by raising standards for the physical and social environment.
The HCA is funding the project through it’s Places of Change programme, which is focussed on homeless people and the causes of exclusion. The programme aims to improve the services available to rough sleepers, to help them make the transition into a settled home, training or employment.
www.homesandcommunities.co.uk
Communities and Local Government (CLG) is the government department responsible for housing, regeneration, local government and race equality and community cohesion.
CLG is the sponsor department for the HCA and is providing additional funding for the garden.
www.communities.gov.uk
The Eden Project is wholly owned by the Eden Trust, an educational charity (charity number 1093070). Eden use exhibits, events, workshops and educational programmes to remind people what nature gives to us and to help people to learn how to look after it in return. All money raised goes to further the aims of the Trust.
The Eden Project are designing, project managing and creating the garden.
www.edenproject.com
Architecture sans Frontieres (ASF-UK) is a UK registered charity, concerned with education and training in the development sector. ASF-UK teaches building skills through a programme of international workshops, events and publications.
ASF-UK are designing and directing the construction of the garden pavilion.
www.asf-uk.org
Homeless Link is the national membership organisation for frontline homelessness agencies in England. Their mission is to be a catalyst that will help bring an end to homelessness.
Homeless Link are working with their member and related organisations on the ground, supplying the manpower to grow, develop, construct, and also deconstruct the garden. These people will also provide hospitality services during the show.
www.homeless.org.uk
The London Employer Accord has been developed as part of the Mayor’s Skills and Employment Strategy and aims to enhance public employment and skills provision for those furthest from the labour market, and help employers navigate the often complex channels of access to public sector recruitment funding and training provision.
They have used the network of Accord employers to secure attendance of some of the UK’s leading businesses at the Chelsea Flower Show exhibitors evening on 19 May. This is the start of a commitment to support participants of the project on their journey to change their lives and improve their employment prospects
http://www.wvuk.co.uk/index.php?page=coalitions&c=5
People from the following centres have helped to create the garden:
- Crewe YMCA
- Homelink Littlehampton
- Watford New Hope Trust
- St George’s Crypt
- St Mungos
- Noah Enterprises Luton
- St Abs Norwich
Prisoners from the following prisons have also been involved in the project:
- Channings Wood
- Wandsworth
- Dartmoor
- Holloway
- Wormwood Scrubs
- Latchmere House
