The Rik Clay foundation has donated £300 of the funds raised from Clayfest to a "permaculture area" at Unity Day in Hyde Park - this will be a carbon-neutral, alcohol free, family friendly space of loveliness aimed at inspiring people to make their environment more sustainable and beautiful (Thanks Ellie) and planned activities include :

lantern making from willow and recycled paper
making cob sculptures, including your own plant pots
reuseable bag making workshops, using rag and old plastic bags
planting workshops - weve planted hundreds of edible plantseeds and hope to have an army of small plants for people to repot and take away complete with recipe and looking after your plant card
pictures of local inspiring urban spaces and advice from local permaculture association on how to achieve this
build your own windturbine!
rocket stoves
mosaic making
Cafe, powered by rocket stoves and tables made out of old cable reels.

Bike generators charging batteries to power us up on the day and mobile phone charge point for everybody who runs out of battery on Unity day.

A tree sculpture made out of recycled materials that will act as our "consultation tree" to ask local people about how they want their area to look, how they want unity day to be and what they think was good and bad about this years permaculture area. They can make their own leaf and put their idea on it and stick it up.

To find out more about Permaculture visit:

http://www.permaculture.org.uk/mm.asp?mmfile=whatispermaculture

We would love to see you on the day if you are in the area (rain or shine!).