A GARDENING project taking root in the Charminster community is appealing for volunteers.

Cowden Care Farm supports adults with learning disabilities and is now running a scheme to help elderly and disabled people in the local area.

The Green Fingers Garden Club sees a team from the farm maintaining gardens on a regular basis and supplying salad, vegetable and fruit boxes from Cowden’s community allotment.

Organisers are now looking for any community-minded volunteers, who can help them maintain and develop the community allotment.

Community coordinator at Cowden Care Farm Siobhan Davis said the service users really enjoyed the opportunity to support others, while it was also a very welcome service for the people who received deliveries.

She said: “It’s been really well received from people in the community and we get more and more people ringing up every day about the Green Fingers Club and about the vegetable boxes.”

Mrs Davis said her team was now ‘desperate’ to enlist the help of more volunteers to help maintain the service and help them to meet the growing demand.

The community allotment was developed by a team of young people from the Prince’s Trust with funding from POPP (Partnership for Older People Programme) and the Innovation Fund.

Anyone interested in helping out can call 01305 250444 or email cowdencarefarm@btinternet.com