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EPO Community Gardening and Healthy Living Initiative (ECGHLI) is a not for profit organisation set up in May 2006; to continue with the challenges set under the prior funded BTCV People’s Places EPO Allotment Scheme.
ECGHLI Mission:
All round health and wellbeing support to priority groups.
ECGHLI AIM
EPO Community Gardening & Healthy Living Initiative (ECGHLI) aim is to enhance Community Sustainability by engaging people in Community Gardening and Healthy Living Activities; with emphasis on Conservation, Horticulture and Leisure; serving Barking & Dagenham and other Environs; prioritizing local people facing health inequalities; people with little or no access to gardens, retired - especially widows, refugees, unemployed, isolated, youth, socially disaffected e.g. ex- offenders, and people facing mental and physical health challenges.
ECGHLI CHARITABLE OBJECTIVES
1. To Improve the local environment via facilitating and assisting in the transformation and cultivation of derelict or under used land into conservation and horticultural gardens; and by enabling access to Gardening & Conservation Tools, Materials and Safety Wear;
2. To provide recreation and leisure facilities in the interest of health and social welfare for priority groups through enabling access to and participation in Community Gardening with focus on Conservation, Horticulture and Leisure; including the development and maintenance of a safe gardening area for children;
3. To advance education and job prospects by enabling Vocational Training in Horticulture in the Operation and Management of Community Gardens; Learning Resources for members Personal Development and Relative Work Experience particularly amongst unemployed people and selected ex-offenders for their rehabilitation.
