Growing Beardmore flushed with success following funding award

Visitors to a community garden in Dalmuir will be able to spend a penny thanks to a successful Lotto grant to fund a sustainable toilet.

Link’s Tenant Engagement Team assisted Growing Beardmore, the community organisation which maintains the garden, in applying for £2310 Lotto grant funding to help attract more visitors and provide facilities which protect visitors’ dignity and comfort during their time at the garden.

Growing Beardmore’s chair, Rose Dorman, said: “We are absolutely delighted our application is successful. We want to encourage more primary school children to visit the beautiful garden, so having facilities for them to use if they are caught short is essential.

The fact that the toilet is also sustainable is a huge bonus. I would like to thank Link’s Tenant Engagement Team who provided invaluable assistance with our application.”

Link Housing Association’s Tenant Engagement Manager Colin Cassie said: “We are always happy to help our tenants and community groups to serve their areas.

“Growing Beardmore is an excellent example of like-minded people coming together to improve where they live.

“It’s great to see the garden thriving, and I am sure the environmentally friendly toilet will help the community garden continue flourishing.”

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Growing Beardmore chair Rose Dorman at the official opening of the community garden’s polytunnel last year. She is photographed alongside Andy Devine, Community Greenspace Officer, at West Dunbartonshire Council.