Award-winning local charity, Green Synergy are delighted to announce a National Lottery award of £94,100 from The National Lottery Community Fund for our Better Together project for a further two years.
This unique project brings together three Lincoln charities: Green Synergy, developmentplus and Abbey Access Training.
About Better Together
The Better Together project supports and enables people who are experiencing mental health conditions to come together to improve their personal health and well-being.
It will provide mentoring, therapy and training opportunities as the first steps towards overcoming barriers and moving forward in their lives gaining the skills and confidence to reach their full potential. Participants are offered a tailor made, supportive and flexible programme of mentoring, coaching, therapeutic activities, volunteering, training, work experience and support into employability.
The programme is free to adults over 18 and living in Lincoln.
People who want to take part can:
• Improve their health and well being
• Improve their skills and confidence
• Get motivated, build self esteem
• Achieve goals and find their sense of purpose
• Try catering, customer service, gardening and countryside skills and experience new things
• Meet people, have fun
• Make friends and be more engaged with their local community
Green Synergy delivers twice weekly sessions on Hillside Garden offering a range of activities for people including gardening, wellbeing, nature connectedness, horticulture, crafts, and fire pit cooking. Our two project partner offer different mentoring, learning and wellbeing opportunities.
About Green Synergy
Green Synergy was established in 2023 as a charity and is based on Roman Pavement in Lincoln. Our vision is creating healthier and caring communities connecting nature, people and plants and our mission is to inspire, enable and empower people in Greater Lincolnshire to meet, grow, learn and thrive through community gardening and connecting with nature. In 2023 and 2024 Green Synergy won the Best Gardening and Horticulture Charity- East Midlands in the Non-Profit Organisation Awards.
The charity currently manages two community gardens, Hillside Garden and Ellie’s Memorial Garden and is developing outreach urban gardening and our work supports people of all ages in the most under-served communities in Lincolnshire to improve their mental and physical wellbeing.
Our charity delivers community gardening and therapeutic horticulture programmes to support people in the most under-served communities in Lincolnshire to improve their mental and physical wellbeing whilst managing the green spaces in environmentally responsible ways. We offer garden design and build services supporting local communities to develop green spaces into new community garden in a sustainable and responsible manner.
Green Synergy is so much more than a gardening charity with volunteering, older people warm and cool spaces activities and community engagement events to bring people together in our community gardens and spaces supporting people living in Lincolnshire to improve their mental health and wellbeing.
The new funding from The National Lottery Community Fund, which distributes money raised by National Lottery players for good causes and is the largest funder of community activity in the UK, will see our Better Together project team support individuals participants to improve their mental health and wellbeing.
Ali Talbot, CEO of Green Synergy said:
“We are so delighted that The National Lottery Community Fund has recognised the significant impact that the Better together project has made and understand how much difference this new grant funding can make to people living in Lincolnshire. The unique partnership with developmentplus and Abbey Access Training has been a key element of making a difference to the mental health and wellbeing of so many people and we are delighted that we will be able to continue this vital work for a further two years.”
About The National Lottery Community Fund
The National Lottery Community Fund recently launched its strategy, ‘It starts with community’, which will underpin its efforts to distribute at least £4 billion of National Lottery funding by 2030.
As part of this, the funder has four key missions, which are to support communities to come together, be environmentally sustainable, help children and young people thrive and enable people to live healthier lives.
National Lottery players raise over £30 million a week for good causes across the UK. Thanks to them, last year (2023/24) The National Lottery Community Fund awarded over half a billion pounds (£686.3 million) of life-changing funding to communities across the UK, supporting over 13,700 projects to turn their great ideas into reality.
To find out more visit www.TNLCommunityFund.org.uk
