What is Bankside Open Spaces Trust mean? Bankside Open Spaces Trust (BOST) is a horticulture, gardening and management of urban open space charity, based in Bankside, the southern bank by the River Thames, Southwark, Central London, England. BOST services clients in London and supports and inspires people of local communities and organisations, among others Tate Modern community garden, to improve, create and enjoy the parks, gardens, green spaces, and, passive and active recreation areas.
The charity supports and services a broad and thriving network of park, community managed green spaces and open spaces groups to carry out consultation, fundraise and oversee improvements. BOST has supported residents with choosing new play equipment, bespoke garden design, bespoke garden feature design, and developing new areas, making access improvements and re-landscaping.
BOST helps to initiate and run community gardening clubs, awards small grants for local horticulture projects and both organises and hires out parks and open spaces for celebratory public and private events. BOST has set up a community garden resource centre with a pond, encourages people to grow their own food - vegetables, herbs, fruit trees and bushes - through 'edible projects' utilising raised-bed gardening and planting, and also provides informal horticultural training, landscape maintenance, garden maintenance, grounds maintenance and gardening work experience in the local parks, gardens and open spaces.
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