Award for TU gardeners

Tagsa Uibhist’s Generations Gardening Together project has been honoured with a Highly Commended award from Generations Working Together (GWT), the national organisation supporting the development of intergenerational work across Scotland.

The Tagsa Community Gardens project uses social gardening on a daily basis and incorporates a planned intergenerational approach. The

project provides therapeutic gardening activities that aim to reduce social isolation, improve mental wellbeing and develop community involvement in an intergenerational setting.

Community Gardens manager Olivia Maclellan was delighted with the recognition the project has gained: “It’s wonderful that our Generations Gardening Together work has been marked out in this way – it’s an initiative that we are all very proud of. Our

project work sits alongside community growers’ plots, and allows people of all ages and backgrounds to work together and learn from each other’s experience.”

Tagsa’s horticultural work includes the new Neighbour Food initiative, which was profiled in the last issue of Am Pàipear.

Pictured – Left to right: Bella Kerr, Ronan MacPhee, Deborah MacVicar, Margaret Wiseman, Kat Beedie