by Sue Oliver | Jun 23, 2020 | Community, Hippy Shop, Press Release
Flintshire based social enterprise RainbowBiz CIC has been given the green light to reopen its trading arm, the Hippy Shop in Mold next week by First Minister Mark Drakeford. Along with all other non essential retail premises in Wales, the Hippy Shop has been making...
by Darren Cook | Apr 29, 2020 | Community, Digging Deeside, Health, Personal
Changing lives with like minded volunteers enhances wellbeing, gardening, bees and flowers. Chat, joke, sing and dance, but understand differences, love not hate, we are in this together. Working together in green spaces, enhancing nature, saving the bees from...
by Darren Cook | Apr 20, 2020 | Community, Digging Deeside, Health, Personal
Hi my friends, I walked my first 6 laps of the back garden at 2pm this afternoon. Sometimes when I’m walking around the garden a bee buzzes past me as if to say hi Daz, thank you for tending the wildflowers that provide pollen and nectar for us bees and other...
by Darren Cook | Apr 20, 2020 | Community, Digging Deeside, Health, Personal
Walking into the garden for light exercise and to listen to the birds and the bees is good for my body and my mental health. Listening to the whistling of the birds or the buzzing of the bee brings happy smiles to my face and takes away any feelings of stress. We need...
by Sue Oliver | Apr 6, 2020 | Community, Digging Deeside, Funding, Fundraising, Press Release
A social enterprise that works with the most marginalised members of the North Wales community has been saved from closure after receiving £10,000 in emergency funding. RainbowBiz CIC were facing a financial crisis after Covid-19 forced them to close their Hippy Shop...
by Sue Oliver | Aug 16, 2015 | Community, Digging Deeside
Weekly Blog for Digging Deeside 12/8/2015 Hello Diggers, This week we had many donations of plants Claire donated a lovely thorn-less blackberry “Loch Ness” we also received a large verity of plants and 3 bags of Raspberry canes from one of our new volunteers...
