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    A real community effort

    Mar 09, 2021 4 minutes

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    I AM continuing to work on the Fontmell Friendship Garden, which is gathering pace and momentum. We had the green light to go ahead at the end of November 2020 and in less than three months our small community has joined together in such a positive way. We are creating the cut flower garden to support the social prescribing team in our local health practice and we are building the garden in the grounds of the surgery next door to the village hall in the centre of our village.

    The cut flower garden will offer a place for the community to gather and collect flowers, a place for us to

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