Current Projects

Creativity Warm Space

Creative Community Garden Project

Saabat gallery creative community garden project Started on 1st October 2021. We received the grant from the National Lottery Fund and other funders (Together Middlesbrough and Cleveland and Sirius minerals foundation).

The aims of the project’s program are

-Create a Space for gathering
-Promoting a Healthy lifestyle/wellbeing
-Therapeutic Gardening
-Opportunity to develop and gain new skills
-Opportunity for volunteering and jobs
-Achieve Net – zero carbon emissions in nearest future

To achieve these aims we start build platforms in Saabat Gallery for a wide variety of activates.

-Community kitchen
-Planting vegetable plots and flower beds
-Performance stage
-Domestic Repair Shop
-Recycling Garden waste

Partnership working, we start gathering partner groups and organisations such as Middlesbrough Volunteering Agency, Redcar Volunteering agency and Groundwork Northeast & Yorkshire and Middlesbrough environment city.

Involvement and opportunities, SG start working with Groundwork on garden Project as part of growing active, which aims to work with the local community and people to improve places and nature.

This project also runs alongside our Saturday Family Art Trolley, the art will link into the garden. Workshops and art sessions will take place in the garden which will encourage families to be creative and learn to work for a better future for our planet.

To achieve our goal Saabat gallery family cordially invite you to be part of this brilliant project as volunteers, to gain skills as well as sharing skills such as gardening, domestic repair, woodworkers, metal workers, landscapers and caters.

Our door are open 5 days a week from 10am – 4.30pm, specifically Garden workshops on Tuesday 10am – 2pm which involves gardening, painting, knitting, making and many more activities for the community to get involved with Susan Cammish Groundwork Northeast & Yorkshire and Karen Lewis from Middlesbrough Environment City.