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“Gardening Against the Odds”: Allotment features in The Telegraph

Posted on July 4, 2012 by admin

An article announcing the Telegraph’s third “Gardening Against the Odds Awards”, describes the Allotment barge, which was enabled in collaboration with the Shoreditch Trust and Capital Growth, as a good example of gardening in an inhospitable environment. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/9365944/Gardening-Against-the-Odds-a-place-where-hope-purpose-and-flowers-shall-bloom.html  

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CHUG in the Hackney Gazette

Posted on June 13, 2012 by admin

CHUG recently appeared in the Hackney Gazette, in a none-too-pleasant article (Luxury flat owners’ horror as Regents Canal boats moor up outside their homes, May 17th, also posted below). The Gazette pursued as inflammatory an angle as they could, and … Continue reading →

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Floating Forest is hosted by CHUG

Posted on February 10, 2012 by admin

CHUG was happy to be asked to host this beautiful floating forest and glade during the 2011 summer.  The huge amount of effort and creativity behind the project came from the inspirational Kindest Group. Passers-by were invited to take a … Continue reading →

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Hackney Citizen on CHUG – ‘Away from the Hackney main stream’

Posted on July 14, 2011 by admin

Kingsland Basin resident Hannah Engelkamp Photo: © Bruno Conrad ‘Some of the borough’s more adventurous residents share the secrets of life on the river’ Jenny Stevens Monday 5 July 2010 ‘Tucked behind Kingsland Road and encased in a rickety black … Continue reading →

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