{"id":10203,"date":"2024-06-29T17:57:31","date_gmt":"2024-06-29T16:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/?p=10203"},"modified":"2024-06-30T13:59:48","modified_gmt":"2024-06-30T12:59:48","slug":"jun24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/2024\/jun24\/","title":{"rendered":"Harpenden Health and Wellbeing Fair and a Picnic in the Chiswell Green Community Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/129-Harpenden-Library-Health-Fair.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-10207\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/129-Harpenden-Library-Health-Fair-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"177\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/\/129-Harpenden-Library-Health-Fair-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/\/129-Harpenden-Library-Health-Fair.jpg 639w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 177px) 100vw, 177px\" \/><\/a>It was great for St Albans and District Soroptimist women&#8217;s group\u00a0 to\u00a0 participate in the <strong>Harpenden Library &#8220;Health and Wellbeing Fair&#8221; <\/strong>promoting <b>&#8220;Orange the World&#8221; to End Violence Against Women<\/b>\u00a0&#8211; asking how will Harpenden people, organisations, businesses turn orange for the 16 Days of Activism 25 Nov to 10 Dec?\u00a0<a id=\"LPlnkOWA552681b4-33af-c7d9-26ca-9c3f323e6020\" class=\"x_app-aware-link x_OWAAutoLink\" href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/orange-the-world\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-test-app-aware-link=\"\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"0\">https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/orange-the-world\/<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/128-Harpenden-Library-22-Jun.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-10206\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/128-Harpenden-Library-22-Jun-300x272.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/\/128-Harpenden-Library-22-Jun-300x272.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/\/128-Harpenden-Library-22-Jun.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>Other organisations were The OLLIE Foundation, Age UK Hertfordshire, Communities 1st, Hertfordshire Health Walks, Harpenden Learning For Leisure, Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care Compassionate Cafe, The <a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/130-St-Albans-Times-27-Jun-24-OTW-Harpenden-Library.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-10208\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/130-St-Albans-Times-27-Jun-24-OTW-Harpenden-Library-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/\/130-St-Albans-Times-27-Jun-24-OTW-Harpenden-Library-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/\/130-St-Albans-Times-27-Jun-24-OTW-Harpenden-Library.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>Harpenden Trust and Pets As Therapy with Lexa the Labradoodle (pictured on the poster).\u00a0 Jane Slatter and Helen are pictured here on p47 of the 27 June issue\u00a0 of the St Albans Times with Hannah, a volunteer with the Herts Domestic Abuse Helpline.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<h5><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/131-Orange-walk-in-Greenwood-Park-pre-Chiswell-Green-Community-Garden-picnic-300x169.jpg\" \/>On Thu 27 Jun the Club had a social event at <strong>Chiswell Green Community Garden.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>The evening was arranged by Helen Byrne and the Planet Team.\u00a0 Christy Mitchell from Grow Chiswell Green came to tell us about the project and the garden back in February <a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/2024\/12feb24\/\">https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/2024\/12feb24\/ <\/a>\u00a0and the &#8220;seeds were sown&#8221; to have a walk in Greenwood Park followed by a picnic in the garden in the summer.\u00a0 We were lucky with the weather although it\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/132-Chiswell-Green-Community-Garden-picnic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10210\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/132-Chiswell-Green-Community-Garden-picnic-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/\/132-Chiswell-Green-Community-Garden-picnic-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/\/132-Chiswell-Green-Community-Garden-picnic.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>got a bit chilly once the garden was in the shade. As you can see from the photos it was a lovely relaxed evening with lots of sharing of food and conversation. Everyone agreed what a lovely garden they have created, such an asset for the local community. We could clearly see Christy&#8217;s vision of creating a garden that was not only about growing plants but also about growing people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was great for St Albans and District Soroptimist women&#8217;s group\u00a0 to\u00a0 participate in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":10209,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[577,751,738,752,12,60,11,206,13,111,99],"class_list":["post-10203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-club-news","category-club-projects","tag-orangetheworld","tag-chiswell-green-community-garden","tag-grow-chiswell-green","tag-harpenden-library","tag-soroptimist","tag-soroptimist-international","tag-st-albans","tag-st-albans-and-district","tag-women","tag-womens-group","tag-womens-organisation"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Harpenden Health and Wellbeing Fair and a Picnic in the Chiswell Green Community Garden | News | Blog | Events | SI St Albans and District<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI St Albans and District : Blog &amp; News : Harpenden Health and Wellbeing Fair and a Picnic in the Chiswell Green Community Garden : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI St Albans and District . 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