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Many local CaldmoreAccord residents may be aware that it has merged with GreenSquare to become GreenSquareAccord.

We welcomed Robin Bailey, the Chairman of the GreenSquareAccord Board, at the Garden yesterday to show the work of Caldmore Housing and then CaldmoreAccord in helping to create Caldmore Community Garden and the House.

CaldmoreAccord have been instrumental in setting up our Community Garden and developing many core areas and projects.

We wanted to share the good work with the new Chairman and the Chief Executive, Ruth Cooke, who has promised to visit in the future, so that we can re-establish our partnership working with a key local social housing provider.

Without the funding from CaldmoreAccord we would not have been able to start the refurbishment of the Caldmore Community House. The former Chairman of CaldmoreAccord, Mike Hew and Director Margot Lambert were key partners in the development of Caldmore Village Festival Group which oversees the Garden and the House.

Caroline Molloy is a photographer based at Caldmore Community Garden. She is making a small scale research project in Walsall that raises the visibility of dinner ladies – there is a family connection there, as her own grandmother was a dinner lady, too. She aims to share personal narratives and photographs about Walsall based Dinner Ladies.

She is looking for personal contact to start this research and is available on Wednesdays, and can either interview at the Caldmore Community Gardens (although times are restricted to opening times which are 10-4pm), in own homes or in a place of work. She is looking to conduct an interview, scan any photographs and at some point make a photo portrait.

If you are interested in taking part, please get in touch with Caroline on 07889 987 991, e-mail carolinemolloy@hotmail.com or message Caldmore Community Garden.