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BALI Probationary Designer Hannah Genders helps launch the BT School Gardens Project

BALI Probationary Designer Hannah Genders helps launch the BT School Gardens Project

The aim is to get every school child in the UK, growing vegetables in the next 3 years.

Hannah was sponsored by BT to do a Chelsea Garden and has now been asked to facilitate this project along with Rocket Gardens who are pre-growing the plants, making it instant for the schools involved.

Hannah, who has done 2 series on Organic Vegetable Gardening for UKTV will be promoting the project in the media and advising children and teachers on all aspects of ‘Grow Your Own’ through interactive website for the project.

The project involves Rocket Gardens and BT launching their joint project by giving away £25,000 worth of Rocket Gardens that enable schools to keep growing for an entire year. BT will buy an Rocket Schools Autumn Garden for the first 500 schools that order a Schools Garden this Spring.

The first 500 schools to register get a free garden will get:

· Links into a nationwide website for your children to talk to other school children about growing veg and they can post photos on the site and chat about their gardens.

· A PRE-GROWN garden that only needs planting out and will all crop in term time before the summer holidays

· Teachers notes and guidance for all key stages of the national curriculum

· Online guidance and advice

· Help from BT volunteers program to build and plant your garden

· Opportunity to be involved with future competitions across the UK

· Links into healthy eating campaign with ‘my recipes’ on the site

For more information visit:

http://www.hannahgenders.co.uk/ or http://www.btschoolgardens.com/