‘I find it hard to put into words what a crucial service Baby Basics is, as a midwife it helps me to provide safe care for my clients. There are no other services that could fill this gap locally’ NHS Midwife working with vulnerable women in Sheffield   Baby Basics Read more [...]

The South East Rivers Trust is an environmental charity which aims to acheive healthy rivers, for all, across the south east of England. We work from as far west as Baskingstoke, and as far east as Dover – looking after all the rivers and their catchments in between. We run Read more [...]

Stonehill Community Garden provides outdoor learning experiences for diverse groups. We provide a safe space where families, groups and individuals can come to enjoy nature, learn about sustainable gardening and meet new people and socialise. Our aim is to build self confidence and create connections between diverse groups in society, Read more [...]

Edible Paisley will grow fruit, herbs, vegetables and edible flowers in public spaces across North Paisley for everyone to share. A project coordinator and group of volunteers will care for two edible growing sites at local community venues. Community involvement will be supported with people taking part in gardening skills Read more [...]

The charity after 21 years in the Crypt of St Mary Magdalene Church is moving into new premises with widespread support of residents, businesses and partner organisations. The cost of refurbishment of a building empty and unused for many years bringing it into use as an important new community resource Read more [...]

The Share Shed is a Library of Things in Totnes (Devon, UK), where people can borrow all sorts of useful things, ranging from tools, house appliances, camping and gardening equipment, sewing machines, and much more! The project enables local people to borrow items at nominal cost so that they don’t Read more [...]

Friends of Horsey Seals are a Community Volunteer Group whose aim is to protect the breeding Atlantic Grey Seal colony at Horsey and Winterton on Sea from disturbance . With around 80,000 visitors each pupping season, it can be quite a challenge ensuring that visitors to the seals enjoy an Read more [...]

As one of the few areas harbouring natural chalk downland, this project will see an area of scrub and ruderals restored into a wildlife haven of diverse chalk grassland, using seed of local provenance for sowing and growing plug plants. These activities will be undertaken by our volunteers. This will involve scrub Read more [...]

Our project is supporting the members of local ethnic minority communities, particularly the Gurkha veterans communities at Aldershot, Hampshire to reduce carbon emissions and promote environmental conservation. Training, information and support are being provided to key members of ethnic minority communities to help them improve their understanding and skills on waste/litter Read more [...]

We have received funding from Regents Place Community Fund to run our Catering Project, taking place within New Horizon Youth Centre. It serves a healthy breakfast and up to 60 hot lunches a day to the most vulnerable and multi disadvantaged young people coming in to London. Many of these Read more [...]

Home-Start Camden and Islington has received funding from the Regent’s Place Community Fund to support 7 families living in the Regent Park area for 1 year.  We will do this by recruiting and training 7 volunteers who will visit the families in their homes for 3 hours per week to Read more [...]

We are the Just Enough Group and we live here with YOU on Planet Earth. It is a completely brilliant place – it has ice cream! However, a few things need sorting to make it even better. We teach on subjects such as Modern Day Slavery, Radicalisation, Problem Plastic, Hate Crime, Inclusion, Knife Read more [...]

Samuel Lithgow Youth Centre (SLYC) was inaugurated in 1969 and has the strategic objective and mission of offering disadvantaged young people services and activities that would contribute to their personal and collective growth. The Centre is located at the heart of the Regent’s Park Ward in the London Borough of Read more [...]

The purpose of Euston Foodbank is to redistribute food in the Euston area on London, so that people who do not have enough food can benefit from donations  from those who are able to spare their own as well as funds. We are an emergency food bank, which means we Read more [...]

Our Families Go Wild programme is funded by Reaching Communities – The Big Lottery.  Families get involved in gardening, animal care, healthy cooking, general maintenance, and other related activities at the farm. Sessions run every Saturday from 11.30am – 1pm.

Little Village collects great quality donations of clothes, toys and kit for babies and children up to the age of 5 and then gifts these donations onto local families in need in the area. Families are sent our way by a network of referral partners including health visitors, midwives and Read more [...]

WhatSUP is a new project designed to support schools and their wider communities in East Dorset to explore and ‘re-think’ their use of Single Use Plastic (SUP). This will inspire them to take action to reduce, refill and reuse, and to play their part in improving their local environment.

Our Project is to transform a neglected corner of the farm into an edible garden with safer fences, adding wheelchair access, interpretation signs, raised beds for vegetables, herbs and fruit bushes. Staff will teaching gardening and maintenance skills, healthy eating and environmental awareness to the young farmers and volunteers who Read more [...]

we want to educate players and improve our community football pitches in a sustainable way with rain water harvesting

We are with the help of a team of volunteers looking to create a garden area at our newly re located cancer centre. Allowing our clients an outside area to sit and relax, with planters and benches. Also several raised planters which will allow our clients to grow vegetables to Read more [...]

Improving wellbeing with every parsnip grown!  Improving and maintaining mental wellbeing is important to everyone. Volunteering at our allotment provides a healthy route for people with a learning disability, autism or a mental health issue to improve their wellbeing through: being active, connecting with others, taking notice of the environment, Read more [...]

Children and community’s around the River Dee and the estuary are becoming more aware of plastics and non-biodegradable rubbish getting swept into our rivers and oceans and plastic reduction is becoming a more popular notion. However, there is still a long way to go. We want to work with groups Read more [...]

Pottery Bank Community Centre provides services and activities to local people residing within Walker and the surrounding areas.  The Centre is an essential hub for training and volunteering opportunities as well as a huge variety of community and family activities.  Our aim is to build confidence, skills and improve the Read more [...]

We are a community growing project, part of the Hope Charity and Hope social enterprise, based in Northampton, UK. We grow healthy fruit and veg for use in various food projects also run by Hope in Northampton, supporting people affected by poverty and homelessness: a day centre, food bank and Read more [...]

We are a large primary school in a busy town. We are recreating our own vegetable garden and Eco system. The children will be responsible to grow, cultivate and harvest their own food. This will result in them being able to design and create their own meals within the home Read more [...]

The development of a sensory garden at our school for children with Special Educational Needs is an ongoing project. We have had many volunteer days working in the garden and Greggs have been part of building a fabulous sand play area in it. Having now received a Greggs Foundation Grant Read more [...]

Heeley City Farm is a community farm in Heeley, Sheffield.  Founded over 30 years ago, it began with £20 in the bank, donated saplings and flower seeds, a hut and a goat and masses of help from enthusiastic local people.  It now employs over 50 people, many who live near Read more [...]

to introduce a beehive to our orchard as means of increasing pollination rates as well as produce products to sell in our farm shop. Also as an educational tool to teach the local community about beekeeping and the importance of bees to our ecosystem

The Friends of Springburn Park is a charity that rescued a disused former depot site and are converting it into a community village. We have agreed a permission to use the site and are in positive dialogue with the council for a 25 year lease. Already on the site we Read more [...]

Following the driest autumn/winter in more than a decade, we need to start thinking about water use. That’s why environmental charity Hubbub has created the #TapChat Quiz, a fun, super simple way to find out what type of water user you are and get tips for saving water that fits Read more [...]

AFRIL’s vision is to alleviate poverty and improve the wellbeing of asylum seekers and refugees living in Lewisham and surrounding areas. Formed in January 2006, AFRIL’s main objective is to provide holistic services for these vulnerable people, including classes for adults, supplementary schooling for children, legal advice and a food Read more [...]

Through Harmony Woods, our new and evolving community woodland, and associated growing gardens we teach care for and understanding of the natural environment and how our actions impact on it for better and for worse, locally and globally. We provide opportunities for volunteering, learning, training, enjoyment and enhanced well-being. It Read more [...]

Come and join the Bloomsbury Festival team as a volunteer and be part of a global festival here on your doorstep. Bloomsbury Festival is a festival of arts, culture, science, literature and fun that explodes onto the streets of Bloomsbury over 6 days in October from Tuesday 17th to Sunday Read more [...]

CPRE believes a beautiful, thriving countryside is important for everyone, no matter where they live. Millions of town and city dwellers recharge their batteries with a walk or a bike ride in the local Green Belt, spend weekends and holidays in the countryside, or enjoy fresh local produce. People who Read more [...]

We run a former church as a community centre for local residents and last year took on the land around it from the council. We are developing a community garden for events, education, crafts, vegetables, composting, wildlife, volunteering, health and wellbeing. Over the next few months thanks to funding from Read more [...]

We are a community gardening group of volunteers based in the West End of Glasgow. Our aim is to improve and maintain green spaces in our community. Through planting and upkeep we are encouraging the community to enjoy the park areas in the middle of the city and to encourage Read more [...]

Plot 22 is a Community Allotment and one of the projects provided is Community Sundays. We want to increase the diversity of local people who come to Plot 22.   We are offering: a) Two facilitated taster sessions for up to 10 people (and their children), where participants: • plant, care for, harvest Read more [...]

The Pendower Eco Garden project is about involving the community in helping to create an area for wildlife within an urban housing estate and to encourage children & young people to explore the natural environment and learn how to look after it. The project is run by Pendower Good Neighbour Read more [...]

We are a group of hobbyist beekeepers who live in Rugby and the surrounding villages.  We aim to educate and support local beekeepers to improve beekeeping practices and through this to preserve and protect honeybees.   We also provide information to the public by participating in local community events where we Read more [...]

Woodcroft Wildspace is an educational wildspace for the benefit of the whole of Enfield. The Downes Court entrance has been closed off for many years resulting in it being overgrown and disused. It was re-opened in January 2018 and has been prepared for this project by the community volunteers installing Read more [...]

Access Dorset is a registered charity organised and ran by disabled people, older people and carers. We have created a vibrant community resource at The Bridge in Bournemouth where we and our partners deliver a combination of diverse activities focused on tackling isolation and exclusion; promote independence and equality; empower people Read more [...]

Please support our application to keep gardening on Dobbins Field. Wandsworth Council have asked us to apply for planning permission for our community garden site. We’re not building any permanent structures, and nor do we plan to in the future, but we need to be granted permission to keep using Read more [...]

A fantastic health and well being project set within 40 other allotments.  Co designed and delivered by veterans with help from the local community. This has seen the transformation of a derelict allotment into a safe place for our Armed Forces Families to meet. New friendships have been formed. This Read more [...]

There are so many old bikes in the back of sheds and garages that can be brought back into use. Too good to throw out but no longer of use to the owner. The bikes will be used in a number ways. The best bikes will be sold to fund Read more [...]

Volunteering opportunities for young people, aged 11 to 16 years, to improve the physical environment of Roker Park, through activities including vegetation management and plant propagation. Young people will be taught a range of practical skills, providing them with a wide variety of skills and knowledge. CEED is delivering this Read more [...]

Hope has been running a Health and Wellbeing initiative, which involves working with the homeless adults in our care to assess their health needs and provide the support needed to enable them to take control and improve their wellbeing. From the residents who have engaged with this initiative, a significant Read more [...]

Groundwork Youth is a Groundwork UK initiative empowering young people and community groups to work together to tackle the issues affecting the places where they live. To achieve this Groundwork is recruiting 100 Young Green Ambassadors to drive forward a national campaign that will support more young people to have Read more [...]

The Twizell Burn is a tributary of the River Wear and runs from Stanley, Grange Villa and Pelton Fellbefore joining the River Wear at Chester-le-Street. The Twizell burn runs through a number of deprived communities including ‘Craghead and South Stanley’, listed in the bottom 15% of areas in England according Read more [...]

Thames21 runs the Welsh Harp Environmental Education Centre (WHEEC), adjacent to the Welsh Harp Reservoir in the London Borough of Brent. Within the 5ha of woodland with ponds and a small section of river Thames21 has been delivering sessions for primary schools, enabling local children to experience and learn from nature. Thames21 is Read more [...]

The Edible Yard is a community food growing space created in 2017 at the back of St Luke’s Community Centre, in central London. The garden is built on top of a paved parking space, with the aim to show what can be achieved in a much urbanised setting. The Edible Read more [...]