New Spaces New Faces

We are looking forward to the upcoming year in The Garden starting next week and the prospect of two new indoor spaces being installed this month. We will be having two new landpods which will increase our indoor space, giving us multiple spaces to work with the young people on different projects and the young people more freedom to move between and explore different dynamics. Our experience from our Bristol Learning Community pilot demonstrated the need for having more indoor spaces, in which we can allow our young people to move into, to undertake more focused activities or socialise in small groups.

So, as we think about coming back and new spaces we are also thinking about new faces. We still have spaces at The Garden from September and if you are interested in coming then please feel free to reach out to us and arrange a visit or trial day. Also, after running our Bristol Learning Community pilot for the whole of last year we are pausing our new intake for one season. We will then be starting up again after half term in early November, with our new spaces available to use. This will give interested young people opportunities to visit the space during the next six week season. We’ll be sharing more detail soon on the Bristol Learning Community’s more structured learning programme based on self-managed learning for ages 10+ so watch this space!

Tim Rutherford and Bess Spencer-Vellacott, mentors at The Garden