Rainbow Roots are hosting their next in-garden to celebrate the jump into spring. Join them on Sunday 29 March from 11am between 40 and 42 Dunster Avenue to grow something great together.

In collaboration with St Mark’s Church and Transpire, Rainbow Roots is hosting their next in-garden session. It’s time for the clocks to “spring forward” and we are ready to Spring Into Action. Time to shake off winter and jump into the garden.

Open to all, no gardening experience needed – just bring yourself. There will be friendly faces, hot drinks, and good chats guaranteed. 

About Rainbow Roots with Maddy McMurray
Maddy is a non-binary poet and writer, who is involved with a number of local creative and LGBTQIA+ groups. They are a neurodiversity advocate and regularly host talks sharing their lived experience as a person diagnosed with ADHD.  Maddy will be working on Rainbow Roots, a community gardening project in partnership with Southend Pride, Transpire, and HARP Southend.

About Artist Ideas to Disrupt Loneliness 
In Autumn 2025, artists submitted their creative project ideas as part of The Unlonely City. Since then, and even before then, we’ve been thinking about how we can create unlonely cities through creativity, curiosity and just the right amount of chaos.

The Unlonely City is an arts programme disrupting loneliness, nurturing moments of solidarity, surprise and laughter. Through a series of artistic commissions, citizens assemblies, parties and public conversations. The Unlonely City takes place across Liverpool, Peterborough, and Southend, where Metal is based, to imagine what an ‘unlonely’ city could be. 

The Unlonely City programme is funded by Paul Hamlyn Foundation as part of the Arts Award.