Roots to Fruit had the privilege of designing and creating a legacy garden to commemorate the 2022 Commonwealth Games in the St Thomas Church Peace Garden in Birmingham City Center. The garden was created with the kind help of local volunteers and students. Roots to Fruit will be maintaining these new garden areas until January 2024 and is facilitating training courses and activity events through this service.
Virtual Tour
Here is a video showing a virtual tour of the legacy gardens:
The Different Aspects of the legacy Garden in More Detail.
Follow the links below to see the different aspects of the gardens showing the rationale behind their design, construction and installation:
Investigate the spirit of Birmingham, The Commonwealth and the 2022 Games following the link to look at the carved wooden poles.
Take a look at the remembrance poppy trail and flowers that have been installed in the park
Follow the link to learn more about the mosaic slabs installed in the park.
The Commonwealth Nations Circle
Find out more about the Commonwealth Nations and the continents they reside in by following this link.
Schools Activity Sheets to be Used in the Garden
Here are some PDF downloads that are educational activities centred around the Commonwealth Games 2022 Legacy Garden. We have attempted to benchmark them against key stages so that you can make an informed decision about which learning resource will be most suitable for your learners in advance:
For Key Stage 1 Pupils:
For Key Stage 2 Pupils:
For Key Stage 3 Learners:
Saint Thomas Church Peace Park Brief History
The Church was completed in 1829 but was partially destroyed a World War II German air raid on 10th December 1940. The church was never fully re-built and in 1955 the front of the building was kept, and the rest of the area was landscaped to create gardens. The peace park is now a designated memorial for those lost in conflict and was re-vamped in 1995 to mark the arrival of the G8 summit in 1998.
St Thomas’ Peace Garden – Wikipedia
Peace Gardens, Birmingham – Birmingham – Parks & Gardens (parksandgardens.org)
How to find the Peace Garden:
google maps st thomas church peace garden birmingham – Bing Maps
The Birmingham Commonwealth Games Legacy Gardens 2022 Design
The 3 areas below were selected as a location to house the main features of the Commonwealth Games legacy:
Here’s are the designs for the different areas drawn by the Company Director of Roots to Fruit Midlands Ltd Jonathan Ensell:
