WEGGA Official

24/03/2022

Growing space is now available. Please apply using the contact information in the advert.

12/03/2022

Spring is in the air. Thank you to one of our volunteers, Kalsoom, for filling these beautiful baskets.

23/01/2022

Lighter mornings and the first snowdrops are waking up. Are you already starting to think ahead to what you want to grow this year?

Have a look at this website. It has a monthly breakdown to support you as you plan and tend to your plot over the year.

Remember, we are roughly two weeks behind our fellow growers down south.

This series of monthly guides tell you what to do now on your plot and what you should have been done and will have to do growing fruit and vegetables.

01/01/2022

28/06/2021

PRESS RELEASE

A Flowerful Preservation

Not all the partial demolition of facilities and buildings at the former Chivas site in Renfrew Road Paisley will be lost forever. Garden lovers recently raised concern about a large Azalea bush that graced the prestigious entrance. With permission from Iain Caskie, the demolition contractor, West End Growing Grounds Association (WEGGA) sprang into action. WEGGA’s Board member and horticulturist, Norma Pinkerton, led a small group of members in the rescue mission.

Norma says, “We are grateful to those who alerted us to the potential loss of this beautiful shrub. The Chivas bush has been divided and will next season provide a permanent brilliant colourful display for our Sanctuary Garden members and for passers-by.”

The WEGGA charity’s Underwood Road site has 56 double raised beds and serves fifty-three individual members and six groups, all “growing their own – locally”.

For further information contact WEGGA’s Secretary at 07710 782510

30/05/2021

Thank you to all our volunteers who have been working on the hanging basket preparation. They are going to look wonderful!

26/05/2021

WEGGA Open Day and Plant Sale

Please join us on Saturday the 5th of June for Site Tours, growing advice, children's crafts and of course our plant sale.

Due to continued Covid restrictions this is a Members Only Event. Members may bring their families!

As always, we are following government advice closely.

27/04/2021

The West End Growing Grounds Association SCIO (Charity no. SC047768) provides raised bed growing grounds for the local communities in the West End of Paisley.

A Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation (SCIO), WEGGA aims to:-​​​​​​

Improve community health and wellbeing by encouraging appreciation of, and interest and
participation in, horticulture.​​​​​​​

Encourage community development and cohesion by managing, improving and rejuvenating spaces and buildings that allow access and use, primarily, for the enjoyment
and benefit of members and the local community.

Engage in educational activities that promote an understanding of horticulture and the
nutritional benefits of local sustainable own-grown food production.

Prevent food poverty by improving availability of freshly grown food while increasing
knowledge of nutrition, cookery and horticulture.