As part of The Great Get Together 2020 here in our corner of south Wales, we’re running: Friday Night Bingo Open Mic Saturday Street Disco Sunday Social Love Llantwit Quiz – a town through time Gratitude Wall – gathering thanks for all the local heroes who’ve made a difference through Read more [...]

Mutual Aid Food Willesden is a cross community collaboration to support all in need with food during the COVID-19 crisis. We want to face the challenge of Covid-19 together as a community and take care of our people as best we can but we need your help to make this Read more [...]

The Friendship Circle of Leeds is an non-denominational organisation that provides assistance and support to the families of children with special needs regardless of background, faith, race, colour or religion. We inspire teenager volunteers to extend a helping hand involving the special needs children in a variety of social experiences Read more [...]

Walk INN Foodbank is here to help individuals and families in crisis by providing free emergency food as well as support until the appropriate agencies are in a position to assist. Tinned and dried food is collected from the public at supermarkets and “banked” in a our store. Food is Read more [...]

We want to maintain and grow nest sites within Wolverton. We need to survey existing nest-sites and hawking routes and install suitable-sited nestboxes. To achieve that we need timber, nestbox-builders and installers!

Monthly gardening club with the focus on practising permaculture to create a diverse edible and useful garden outside a church on Brockley Rise.

Community woodworking project for adults at risk of social isolation. Providing free access and participation in short courses and drop in sessions giving full induction for safe use of hand and power tools to create community use items, home & garden items and craft items. To promote health & wellbeing, Read more [...]

The Hub garden is a small kitchen garden on the back of the Library at the Hub Community centre in Hounslow ,which is attended by local families using the community centre and sure start drop in Originally the garden was a resource for growing fresh vegetables for the community cafe Read more [...]

We love improving green space, project after project, here at Christchurch School Community Garden. We aim to create a beautiful space filled with colour and wildlife, one plant at a time. Since we started in October 2017, we have welcomed hundreds of visitors on our weekly Open Fridays and Weekend Read more [...]

Tanga Club is a youth and social group for children with special educational needs and disabilities, and their families and friends. We run a weekly club in Hexham and regularly welcome between 40  – 50 children and their families, but we are much more than just a youth club. We Read more [...]

We are a friendly model railway club, where people can work on their own projects, work on one of the club layouts or just have a tea and a chat. We are run as a co-operative with no chairman or committee, just a treasurer to handle the funds. There are Read more [...]

Current  Workshops April – Eltham / May- Kidbrooke /  June-Thamesmead 18 April – Eltham Park South  9.30-12.30 (times tbc) – HOSTED BY: Friends of Eltham Parks with Eltham Ecos “Wildflowers & pollinators for garden and meadows” workshop and walk with Ecologist Joe Beale – see Joe on twitter:  @joe_beale –  Read more [...]

This  “project” is a showcase for my work – as a Greenspace storyteller, outdoor educator, forest school trainer / practitioner working with schools, heritage sites and communities.   Have tapped out a bit of CV below with links to some previous or current work / partners.  

We are a fully constituted community group, set up on an over 55’s independant living estate, the group consists of eleven residents. We have already established a gardening group within the estate grounds but involving participants from the wider community. This has kick started a togetherness for the residents, many Read more [...]

Let’s Talk About Loss is a support organisation for young adults aged 18-35 who have been bereaved. We run monthly, peer-led meet ups across the UK to support young people through their journey of grief. We’re not grief experts or therapists, we’re just young people who have been bereaved, gathering Read more [...]

Our aim is to reach out to the local community by offering people who are lonely or struggling to make ends meet or vulnerable and the disabled the chance to learn how our community hub operates and offer them the chance to take part in our future activities We would Read more [...]

The Happy Cafe provides a welcoming safe place for people of all ages to meet. We have tea and toast and the whole event is totally unstructured.People can play games,do art,potter about in the garden or just sit and chat.We started a few months ago and it has been amazing,we Read more [...]

‘Creative Change Makers 2020’ conference, held in London on 5-8th Feb 2020.Built to fund raise, inspire behaviour change, to enrol creative industries as well as leading educators – focused purely on embedding social and environmental impact into society, education, the world. The conference is the first of its kind to connect the Read more [...]

Our 10th Seed Potato Day is a community partnership event with SE Essex Organic Gardeners, Southend in Transition and local charity Trust Links. Why not put it in your diary now? Saturday 8 February 10:00 – 14:00 Free admission Growing Together Westcliff, 47 Fairfax Drive, Westcliff-on-Sea, SS0 9AG (corner of Read more [...]

We are a friendly group of volunteers in the East Greenwich Pleasaunce who… Celebrate and promote a local orchard and nature in and around our local park. Love that food and growing are such powerful ways to build community, friendships and a sense of place. Run volunteer days and share Read more [...]

SMILE Connect provides community and activities for lone parent families that would otherwise be out of their reach due to finances and time limitations.  We are seeking funding for our SMILE retreats which are at the heart of what SMILE is about – a chance for lone parents and their Read more [...]

Alley Pals is a small community group that meets to develop green spaces for food growing and shared social events in the Gresham and Linthorpe areas.  We work within people’s back alleys, we have a small shared space known as Essex Square and we have an allotment plot at People’s Read more [...]

This project is sort of crowdfunding idea but the difference is that it is local and funded by the people that attend the events. The aim is to bring people together on a community level and all become a pholanthropist in a micro way depending on how much a person Read more [...]

Painting Our World In Silver is a registered charity offering monthly craft events to older people. Our events help to combat social isolation and loneliness through crafting. We offer a supportive and friendly environment which encourages creativity, conversation and friendship. We offer fun and interesting crafts for all abilities – take Read more [...]

Trumpington Community Orchard was founded in 2007  with help from Cambridge City Council, BBC Breathing Places Fund and the Co-operative Society. The orchard is volunteer run with free , open access to visitors. The site is planted with Cambridgeshire heritage fruit trees ( mostly apples plus a plum and greengage Read more [...]

Hi I have nearly an acre of land that I run community groups from. I am a Forest School leader and grow fruit and veg for the family and have a small holding. I have just done an introduction to Permaculture course and want to increase the community aspect of Read more [...]

Cheltenham needs nature! We promote and provide nature and wildlife-based events around the Cheltenham area to reconnect people with the land that surrounds them. We’re nestled in an area of outstanding natural beauty, with ancient beech woodland, chalklands, and wide open fields. We’re particularly interested in bringing nature back into Read more [...]

The club provides friendship/support for elderly singles/couples and bereaved for older and isolated people. in the locality of Clydach, Swansea

Are you involved with young people between 8 and 18 years of age? Become A Youth Mental Health First Aider TWO-DAY Youth Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) Training MHFA England and government certified. 21 – 22 November, 9am- 5 pm Learn to spot the early SIGNS of emotional and mental Read more [...]

A small community garden attached to the Leegate centre, in Leegomery, Telford. The vision is to grow veg and fruit, to teach the kids where food comes from, to help families in food poverty and to even help the cafe.   Also volunteering in the outdoors is good for mental and Read more [...]

The project aims to secure and improve the prospects of two Crown Green Bowling Clubs in the deprived area of Farnworth, Bolton. The Clubs are based in Farnworth Central Park and Doe Hey Park. Both Clubs have open age and veterans teams, with age ranges from from 30 to 85, Read more [...]

This is a group for anxious isolated teenagers who dont have confidence or social skills to enable them to make friends. Lack of confidence and self esteem, aspergers are all factors in stopping some young people having a social life. The group will be held on a weekly basis .

We screen a Film for Action every two or three months for the Hackney community, free of charge, to inspire, unite and motivate people into action. Screenings are followed by panel discussions and a Q&A session with representatives of local groups on the films’ topics, followed by green drinks networking. Read more [...]

The Red Box Project Epping Forest is a community-based, not-for-profit initiative, which aims to support young people throughout their periods by providing red boxes filled with free period products to local schools.

Men’s Sheds, Change Lives At West Wight Men In Sheds, we look upon our Shed as a collective noun for a group of men working towards a common goal. Our shed is primarily (but not exclusively) aimed at men aged 18+. There are many reasons why you may want to Read more [...]

South Western District Gang Show (SWDGS) is a fast-moving variety show performed in a theatre setting by a cast of boys and girls (6-18y), supported by a team of 30+ adult volunteers who have experience of organising live theatre events. SWDGS cast members are recruited from open workshops in the Read more [...]

Proud of Mersea was set up in 2018 with the aim of making Mersea Island in Essex the first litter free island in the UK. We have lobbied the local authority for more bins and recycle bins, we have signs all over the island reminding people to take their litter Read more [...]

The Friends of Monkey Park have been actively fundraising to create a new play area in Chester Street Park in Brampton, Chesterfield. We have raised sufficient funds to be able to apply for a grant, but this still leaves a shortfall as we’d like to purchase a floor level, accessible Read more [...]

Laughter. Running. Jumping. Climbing. Sliding. When you think of a playground, you think of a happy, carefree environment. But there’s much more than just fun. Playgrounds are like hands-on classrooms where children are able to test and extend their abilities, develop their self confidence, assess risk correctly and enjoy and Read more [...]

GranPart is a support group for grandparents that denied access from their grandchildren for various reasons. We have monthly meetings in Milton Keynes and Northampton. We are always looking for ways to promote awareness of the group to gain more members. We have been running the group since 2015. I Read more [...]

We meet on Tuesdays at the Egham Orbit Leisure Centre for our Assisted Swim session and  have also recruited additional volunteers to help more wheelchair users. With the funding received from Greggs Foundation, we can now go ahead and purchase the equipment necessary to provide the extra changing room facilities Read more [...]

A Community Group, also known as the Friends of Winsford Gardens and Royston Field, Penge. Created by LB Bromley and The Conservation Volunteers in 2011. Independently run since 2013. We promote Gardening and volunteering to get active exercise outdoors for your own health and wellbeing; to improve your local parks Read more [...]

Linking mainly rural low carbon community groups to share ideas, stimulate new activity, support and inspire each other. This informal network was initiated at an event in April 2019 by Harbury Energy Initiative supported by the RSA. Since then other groups have joined in with an excellent event at Napton Read more [...]

The Radford Park Residents Association supported by voluntary groups of residents and families are working hard to build an amazing sense of community with residents engaging with one another through regular social community family events that will centre around our central community village green project. The community has exciting plans Read more [...]

This was a large docks railway sidings and landscaped rubbish tip that was abandoned about 30 years ago and had become overgrown with scrub.  After a long fight it was designated a Local Nature Reserve (LNR) in late 2017.  Working with Bristol City Council Parks department, we have opened it Read more [...]

We work to enhance the area and improve the chances for pollinators to thrive, we also ensure the land is clean, tidy and that no peat, pesticides or other contamination enters the land. We put on events each year for the community and fundraising for more plants to go into Read more [...]

The Green Gym® is natural exercise to make a difference! Fun and free outdoor community volunteering sessions to connect us with local green spaces. The Camden Green Gym® runs at different parks & public gardens across Camden. The Green Gym® is a unique way to get fit, transform the environment, Read more [...]

Llansilin Over 60 Club provides a meeting point for the elderly of the community. The majority of club members are single and live alone in an isolated rural community. Whilst many of the regular club activities are of a social nature their value to the elderly of the community is Read more [...]

MAGIC supports the families of children with additional needs through online support, peer to peer support, accessible activities, accessible events and parent and carer workshops throughout the year, offering respite through art and activities. The group offers a safe space for children to play, for siblings to spend time with their Read more [...]

Free Cakes for Kids Southampton is part of the Free Cakes for Kids network which has over 60 groups under the national umbrella in most parts of the UK. The Southampton group is a volunteer led community organisation who bake birthday cakes for children, who live within the City of Read more [...]