THE community association Pembroke 21C has received a funding boost thanks to players of a charity lottery.

Earlier this year, Pembroke 21C was awarded nearly £2,000 from the People’s Postcode Trust to spend on an orchard of heritage fruit trees at Greenhill, located on the Angle peninsular.

“We wanted to create a beautiful and tranquil spot that our community members and volunteers can go to and escape from the pressures of the outside world and reconnect with our rural heritage” said Elizabeth Gossage the development officer for Pembroke21C

Apple trees with such glorious names as Marged Nicholas and the Gelli Aur Cooker have been planted and fruit from the trees will be offered to the local community through the farmers market.

The funding also covered a grafting workshop and the people who attended will now be able to go forward with plans to take grafts from the very ancient fruit trees that still exist in the burgage plots within the town walls.

Tracy Whistance, project manager for the CIC, said: “This link to our past is also a key to our future, promoting a sustainable way forward for our community that provides with us tasty, locally produced food. We are very grateful to the People’s Postcode Lottery for helping us with this amazing project and if you’d like to take part in anything we do such, please do get in touch. We’ve got some great training courses coming up soon that everyone could enjoy”

To celebrate the project, Pembroke 21C is hosting an Apple Day on Saturday, October 25 from 10am– 4pm at Foundry House and on the Commons where people can bring apples for juicing and pasteurising. There will be lots of different activities like wood turning, advice on how to plant and grow orchard trees, games to play and cooking demonstrations.