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Throughout the duration of the Champion's Allotments Project, Bransholme Enterprises has worked to develop partnerships with a number of organisations in Hull and its surrounding areas.
Since January 2005 Champion's Allotments has worked in partnership with Hull Youth Offending Team and Serving Others through Volunteer Action (SOVA). Shared aims and objectives have been the driving force in partnerships between Bransholme Enterprises, Hull Youth Offending Team, and SOVA.
Youth Offending Team Officers have brought a range of skills including assessing the needs of young offenders and the suitability and appropriateness of Champion's Allotments in order to change the behaviour of offenders.
Staff at Champion's Allotments have played a vital role in assisting Probation Officers as they work with young offenders, provided support to young offenders as they face the consequences of their offences and provided support to the young people who have been released into the community from custody.
Offenders have worked hard on the Allotment site on over 30 occasions by improving the general look of the site. Here is a list of just some of the activities they carried out:
- Clearing weeds
- Raking dead grass
- Barrowing
- Composting
- Planting potato sets
- Watering crops
- Constructing timber door frames for a polytunnel
- Painting hazard and warning stripes where needed
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Llite Training was formed in 2001 as a direct response from the construction industry requesting an increase in skills base - as a result the organisation provides realistic training to learners aged 15-19 years.
Bransholme Enterprises and Llite Training developed a partnership in 2006 in order to help those who may have fallen out of the education system and the long term unemployed into work by providing supportive work placements enabling learners to access the realism of employment in the construction industry.
During their work placements with Bransholme Enterprises the students laid shuttering, built concrete paths and improved the surface to the car park enabling improved access onto the allotments.
Champion's Allotments has longstanding links with Entry to Employment firstly in 2005 and secondly from September 2006. Partnership links were developed to focus on participants needs to give young people the training, education, skills and experience they need to enter the world of work. Champion's Allotments began working with students who were currently not in education, employment or any sort of training who required a range of additional support to enable them to do so, others were not sure which way they wanted to go and needed help to obtain the skills needed to partake in full time courses, apprenticeships, or full time employment.
Whilst involved in the joint venture students attended the allotment site in order to further develop it by measuring, planning and designing an area where a polytunnel could be sited. The polytunnel was then erected by the students, a paved area in and around the polytunnel was also completed and plans were put in place to develop a 'den area'.
Since June 2006 Champion's Allotments has worked in partnership with A4E in Hull. The organisation operates in 78% of the UK's most disadvantaged wards to assist local people in accessing high quality training and employment advice.
Bransholme Enterprises has provided administration and manual labour work placements/training opportunities to students and the unemployed who reside predominantly in the Bransholme area of the city.
Champion's Allotments and citywide Junior Wardens have worked together since early 2005 to provide constructive activities for local young people (8 to 12 years) that benefit the community whilst encouraging a sense of civic pride and responsibility as well as contributing to a cleaner and safer environment.
The partnership has improved the physical environment and has enabled participants to meet new friends, develop new skills, have fun, discover what crops look like as they grow and harvest them in the due season.
The Partnership has taught participants about the benefits of healthy eating, and recycling, and the value of making their community a nicer place to live, promotion of good citizenship and introduced them to different areas of the community.
Champion's Allotments and Pooh Bear developed a partnership working from March 2005. Pooh Bear is a voluntary organisation based in the Hull and East Riding of Yorkshire area, which provides one to one reading support to children who find reading difficult. Champion's Allotments worked with Pooh Bear in order to increase reading skills and confidence levels at an after school reading club (ages 10 - 11 years) based at Cleave Primary School.
Participants were able to follow the worksheets and/or instructions, record findings, develop reading skills, think about healthy eating, look at how fruit and vegetables grow and later in the season harvest tomatoes and sunflowers.
