Kate Hoey MP, Patron of Roots and Shoots
For continuing moral and practical support we remain indebted to our patron Kate Hoey MP.
Funders
Roots and Shoots is funded by the following organisations. We would particularly like to thank:
• YPLA
• The Walcot Educational Foundation
Arts and craftsmanship
Roots and Shoots would like to thank the following artists and craftspeople, whose creations have brought the garden to life:
• Martha Macdonald, artist-ceramist and keen gardener/educator has made two striking murals with trainees at Roots and Shoots – on the wall by the ‘Bubble Gate’ and in the form of a totem-pole-signpost by the beech hedge.
There are also several of her ceramic sculptures in the Wildlife Garden. Her “nesting heads” have proved popular with wool carder bees. Martha also works at Ethelred Nursery and at Tate Modern and exhibits her ceramic sculptures regularly.
• Kath Shortland is an artist blacksmith based at the Kew Steam Museum who has offered very popular metalwork workshops to our students and volunteers. She has also produced beautiful and functional security gates for the shop and the trainee lockers.
• Karen Livesey is a film maker and shiatsu therapist. She has produced two student induction videos for us, the latest in Autumn 2009.