We have been working with Karen Mower at Incredible Edible who was looking for young volunteers to help develop their project. The YOS children have been assisting to develop the project whilst learning about growing fruit and vegetables, helping the local community and attending the community hub. This has encouraged them to develop new skills but also contribute to the community and meet new community members who they would not normally associate with. The project has been really beneficial to our children and is also very valuable in giving back to the community and helping make it a better place to live.

Celine Gafos

Service Manager

The recent introduction of Incredible Edible to Knowsley will be an increasingly important and integral strand of the Council’s drive to improve the health of adults in receipt of care and support from Adult Services, including their families, carers and the wider community. Although we are in the early stages of supporting this initiative, work is underway to tie this this approach into a range of public health and economic objectives that enables this type of project to rapidly grow across communities, supported by the Council, Voluntary and Business sectors to ensure long term sustainability.

Sean Cook

Head of Adult Social Care

First of all thank you so much for your wonderful presentation and fabulous enthusiasm.  I absolutely love the concept of Incredible Edible and really hope we can work together in some way.

Paula Williams

Head of Cultures & Libraries

We are keen to support the work of Incredible Edible Knowsley and in particular at our sports complex in Huyton where local members of the community can by accessing the project, be more health aware, improve their levels of physical activity, manage long term health conditions, and relieve stress and anxiety. Residents will also gain support with money management, employment, qualifications and digital awareness.  We believe that supporting the Incredible Edible community growing initiative to develop growing patches and herb gardens to transforms disused plots into abundant sources of healthy food, which are shared with the community will have a far reaching and positive impact.

Helen Paton

Project Manager at One Ark

Incredible Edible Knowsley has been working in the community to help support people who access Adult Social Care day services for the Elderly. The project has focused on a neglected outdoor space attached to the Elderly Day Care provision in Huyton. A team of volunteers, children from St Anne’s Primary School and the Councils Green Space Ranger Team have worked with Incredible edible to help transform this area into a beautiful oasis of calm and relaxation.

Lesley Barnabas

Parks & Green Spaces

Knowsley Council is striving to improve the health and wellbeing of Knowsley residents. Incredible Edible Knowsley have created and developed a horticulture project that is designed to have a positive impact on physical health and wellbeing, mental health and social isolation. Older people are being brought together to grow and harvest their own fruit and vegetables creating a healthy and nutritional diet. Young people who are at risk of offending or have offended are also being engaged to undertake a range a growing workshops.

Councilor Graham Morgan

Lead of the Council

Having been involved and supported this fantastic project since its inception I am happy to see how very well connected to Knowsley communities the project has become. Incredible Edible Knowsley has been growing from strength to strength. This project provides an alternative opportunity for people to engage in therapeutic horticulture, which as we know, has numerous benefits such as promoting better emotional and wellbeing and mental health. Incredible Edible Knowsley is an inter generational, educational and inclusive to all project and with Karen Mower has the project lead, I am excited for its future.

Lynsey Welsh

Community Development Worker

Incredible Edible Knowsley is a great example of the vision of Incredible Edible in practice. In the last year we have been privileged to welcome IE Knowsley into the Network joining 120 groups across the UK and over a thousand worldwide. This is a great example of grass root community organising.

Pam Warhurst CBE

Founder and Chair of the Incredible Edible Movement

It has been a real pleasure for our team to be involved with Knowsley Incredible Edibles as they do such a fantastic job of bringing together and supporting both diverse and sometimes vulnerable groups of people. We pride ourselves in not only building beautiful new homes in Knowsley but also helping to create sustainable communities, where people love to live. Supporting community projects such as this one gives us a real sense of pride, particularly knowing that local people will really benefit from being able to use the bench, raised beds and potting table we supplied and built.

Mark Hadfield

Regional Operations Director from Countryside