Thousands of titles have been donated to the much loved project to help people recover from Covid. They are now setting up a pop-up book shop in the Belville Street premises ti sit alongside their food larder. Organiser Adrian Scott said: We are delighted to have all these books and there are some great reads in there. We are going to send books out to care homes for the residents to read, as well setting up a shop here. The pop up book shop runs in Belville this Thursday from 11 am to noon. Belville Community Gardens would like to thank Luath Publishing for their donations.
Campaigners joined together with the foodshare programmes to organise uniform swaps at local hubs. Parents could find items of clothing in all sizes and for each school across Inverclyde. Belville Community Gardens volunteer Michelle Munro, 34, pictured, stepped in to help during the first lockdown. She said: I think this is a great initiative. As a mum I know the cost of uniforms and anything we can do to reduce the burden on parents. The uniform swap is part of a wider Inverclyde-initiative to support residents during the continued response to coronavirus.
VOLUNTEERS who have been helping to care for Belville Community Gardens celebrated Christmas with an outdoor party. The gardening club, which was able to start back up towards the end of a difficult year, made a fire to keep warm during the festivities. Belville brought the group together to encourage people to get active outdoors and improve their mental wellbeing. Organiser Sally Clough said: It has been one of the only groups we have been able to run as a result of Covid. We had a lovely time celebrating our last session before Christmas, lighting a fire and eating popcorn.