Bolton Community Kitchen Allotment (BCKA)

BCKA is the collective of volunteers brought together to meet one of the initial and overriding purposes of Bolton Community Kitchen; that is, the growong of  fresh, local fruit and vegetables using organic gardening principles of working within natural systems and cycles, using natural ways to promote a complete healthy, productive and sustainable growing environment.

The volunteers share the same ideology, work communally as a team,  pool our  horticultural and/or gardening knowledge and experiences of collective growing, allotmenteering and gardening along with our practicical, organisational and management skills to honour the founder, Gareth Bradbury’s dream of creating a space to grow food and provide a welcoming, calming, safe, nurturing, sociable, enjoyable communal and educational cultivation space for the for volunteers and service users of Bolton Community Kitchen, and the wider local community to come together to grow, learn new skills from each other and by hosting educational opportunities, develop and enrich social skills,  experience the emotional and healing benefits that being in a green and growing space provides, to raise awareness of the benefits of growing, taking a more organic and non-traditional approach to outdoor social spaces and the wonderful outdoors.

We will reach out to the wider local communities, schools and other voluntary sector organisations to create an inclusive environment where everyone can experience the well-being and healing properties that growing food in a communal and sociable, mutually educational space brings.