We continued our Growing Together project in 2024 with funding from People and Places Community Fund. This continued our tailored growing sessions for positive physical and mental health, twice a week at our Bute Park site. Arranged in 11 week blocks with planning breaks as we orientated ourselves around the seasonal year with celebrations and outings after each block. This project ended in September 2024. Sessions at CSG continued once a week until new funding was found for our winter gardening project funded by Awards for All Community Fund. Our extended space in the newest polytunnel helped us to thrive and offer an enhanced volunteer experience. We were awarded Funding from Postcode Lottery Community Trust and used this new funding to continue sessions at both gardens whilst compiling new funding applications for long term projects. Our team now consists of 6 people each contracting valuable services to the Salad Garden. We continued to work with a range of adults of all ages from a wide demographic including people who identify as neurodiverse, refugees, adults with learning difficulties, mental health challenges, people who are disabled and many more. We grew a large number of vegetable seedlings that we were able to give away and also grow our own extra veg for volunteers to take home including runner beans, tomatoes and cucumbers. We continued to manage Riverside Community Garden and continued our Volunteering programme with funding from WCVA Volunteering Wales to improve volunteering opportunities and experiences at this site. We ran two Gardening for Positive Mental and Physical Wellbeing sessions at this site every week with our team supporting people to get involved, sharing the produce with volunteers. We had a very successful year with a large amount of produce grown and distributed to volunteers, surplus vegetables were donated to Food Cycle in South Riverside Community Development Centre who make a free weekly evening meal for people in the community. Unfortunately in Nov 2024 the main community space a wooden shed was burned down in an arson attack. This was devastating but also led to the community really coming together and being supportive. We held a successful crowd funding campaign and received funding from Edible Cardiff to build a new space in Spring 2025. Work for this began in April/May 2025 and the new space will be a development of the old one, improving what we had before. We received funding from My Food Community Denton's Leadership Action Grant for Cardiff Salad Garden to run a wider survey of our local area to find out more about what people would like to see at Cardiff Salad Garden and how we can make it more accessible to the wider community. We received funding from the Moondance Foundation to carry out a series of facilitated development sessions with our whole contracted staff team to develop the next steps for the organisation and build a 5 year plan. This fed into the development of a large People and Places 5 year bid for the next project which was submitted in March 2025

Our stakeholders are our volunteers/beneficiaries, our customers – both restaurants and individual residential customers, local people and groups who we work with in the locality. Our volunteers attending our weekly sessions give us important feedback on our sessions, what we offer and how we can improve that, as well as our Board and advisors. Our sessions with volunteers are constantly adjusted with volunteers feedback and external evaluation in the form of feedback forms and in person focus groups has led us to collect a large amount of reflective feedback. This has influenced our quarterly planning of our sessions. Cardiff Salad Garden also benefits from advice and support and feedback from a number of support agencies such as UnLtd, Food Cardiff, Social Farms and Gardens and Social Firms Wales. After the fire at Riverside Community Garden a range of specific idea sessions were coordinated to allow members of the garden volunteers to express ideas for the new space and create a plan for what was going to be built to replace this. As part of this we visited 2 other local community gardens to see their different spaces. We commissioned research of our local community funded by My Food Community Denton's Leadership Action Grant: Community Survey Report 2024 A survey of local community perspectives was undertaken in Autumn 2024 using a physical questionnaire. 111 questionnaires were completed in total, representing 130 respondents. These were either self-completed by community members at one of several outreach events or completed by Cardiff Salad Garden (CSG) staff making notes from interviews or focus groups with community members and groups based on the same questions. The survey gathered input from the following groups: Members of the public near the Bute Park site, Cardiff Metropolitan University Students and Staff, South Riverside Community Development Centre (Focus group at a meal with members of ‘Women’s Chat’ group, Community members at free evening meal, Staff and volunteers of the community food pantry, Members of an over 50s lunch club), St Pauls Primary School, Riverside Community Garden open day, Llamau: a local charity providing services to young people and women who are homeless or abused, Teasel: a local group focused on connecting people in the LGBTQIA+ community in Cardiff to nature and developing land-based skills, SAFE Foundation : a Cardiff-based charity committed to improving the lives of marginalised people and communities. This research was used alongside our facilitation sessions funded by The Moondance Foundation to develop our planning of future projects with our whole contracted staff team. These sessions mapped our current offering and all the possibilities from volunteer feedback and wider community survey to create a new proposed project for the next 5 years which was submitted to People and Places Community fund for consideration

The directors of the company receive no remuneration for their director duties. However, one director is employed by the CIC in a separate capacity as Project Manager, for which they receive a salary of £21,409.50 per annum. This employment arrangement is in accordance with the CIC’s Articles of Association and supports the delivery of its community interest objectives

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