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Rosa Schling managed the project 'Grow Your Own' and led the research, writing and oral history interviewing for the project and this website. 

Louise O'Hare and Veronica Deutsch worked on the project for Post Pandemic Childcare Coalition. 

Billy Cooper, Lauren Salter and Aleph Ross contributed research and writing to this website and Linda Mezaks recorded one of the oral history interviews. Laura Toms proof read the interview transcripts. 

Thank you to everyone who attended archive mapping sessions at Bishopsgate Institute and helped identify content for the map. 

Thank you to everyone who contributed their memories, archive material and time to Grow Your Own, this project would not have happened without you. Thank you especially to Maggie Murray and Michael Ann Mullen for allowing us to use their photographs in the design of this website.

Thank you to everyone who took part in the project's advisory group and our partners Post Pandemic Childcare Coalition. 

Thank you to Bishopsgate Institute for hosting our archive, and to Bishopsgate, the Women's Library at the London School of Economics, Hackney Archives and the London Archives for their help with our research in their collections.

Grow Your Own was funded by Trust for London.