A new gardening project for Isle of Wight children, run by the West Wight Sports and Community Centre, is hoping for cash from the Tesco Stronger Starts scheme to help fund it.

The sports centre's grounds are being used to provide hands-on gardening experiences, promoting healthy eating habits through the cultivation of fruits and vegetables.

The project gets underway this week.

Clare Griffin, centre manager said: "We are excited to be starting and very much hope the community will get behind us, so we can receive much needed funds to provide the activity year round.

"Teaching children about gardening and how to produce their own food is such an important skill for them to learn and will set them up with how to eat healthily and at a low cost.

"It will also demonstrate how little space is required to grow fruit and vegetables."

If you shop at Tesco in Freshwater, you can support the project by choosing it when you drop a blue token in the box, until June.

Stronger Starts provides grant awards of up to £1,500 to local community projects focussing on children and young people.