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Mow & Grow to feature in its sixth TV appearance for BBC documentary…. BBC celebrity presenter Dominic Littlewood is to feature in a 15 part documentary going out later this summer. The documentary series see’s Dom talking about benefits which people don’t realise they are entitled to.
The Norwich City Mow & Grow scheme are to feature in a 30 minute episode filmed by Flame TV for the BBC, and is due to be broadcast later this year.
Filming included seeing a vulnerable person being identified by one of Norwich City Councils tenancy team identifying the garden and putting them forward for the Mow & Grow service.
The BBC filming then sees the M&G team take over, and transform the garden. Volunteer turned staff member John (Scoby) Renshaw talks about why he joined Mow & Grow as a volunteer, and how it led to a job with the social enterprise.
Dom will be back at the Mow & Grow House OCN training centre later in July to interview founder and Director Trevor Lynn, and to revisit the original garden to see how things have developed.

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Mow & Grow gets its own TV show

Teacher Trio with Neil Hussey On a cold November morning Mow & Grow helped the Ground Force Gardening Club at Costessy High School in Norwich rise to the challenge from Teachers TV to transform the garden of a disabled neighbour in just one day.
The project supported by Ben Burgess & Sainsburys saw the youngsters gardening club help an arthritic and immobile resident.
Previously a keen gardener in her youth the garden still had the remnants of its previous life, with overgrown vegetable patches and an old pathway.
Science teacher Pauline Williamson and her fellow teachers and students recruit Mow & grow to train them how to tackle the urban jungle. Her experience of running the gardening club for the past four years, helping pupils grow wild flowers for a special display at the Chelsea Flower show comes in handy
Can the students tame the jungle and turn it into a show garden in just 6 hours…… Mow & Grow to the rescue… (Watch the video)