Looking at improving, using and learning from our herb garden. Making scalable items from the herbs produced to fund further community work on the estate. We will train 5 local residents in Food Hygiene Level 2 so they can utilise the herbs being grown to make interesting and unusual products Read more [...]
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Morpeth and District Red Squirrels (MAD RS)
Morpeth and District Red Squirrels (MAD RS) is a small voluntary group, formed in 2012. Our aim is to protect and preserve native red squirrels within Morpeth and the surrounding area. Northumberland is fortunate to have red squirrels living in woodlands and gardens within the county. We provide information and Read more [...]
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Northcliffe Allotments Community Garden
We are an allotment society in Shipley, West Yorkshire, currently developing a community garden. We receive a Greggs Foundation Environment Grant which is really helping us to develop the site. Find out more or even apply for a plot at http://northcliffe.btck.co.uk/
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Community Orchard
To create a community orchard within our community woodland. Â Hoping to plant UK indigenous fruit varieties. The project is supported by the Greggs Foundation.
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Greening the Range – A Blooming Community
We are a Residents’ Association covering 400 households, who initiated a project called Blooming Community 6 years ago. We have installed planters on the streets, planted fruit trees in the community, hold regular litter picks and improve links between our community and the council and police. We hold an annual Read more [...]
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The New Brighteners
The New Brighteners are a beach cleaning and environmental group who, in addition to cleaning our local beaches, support other groups in Wirral, work closely with Wirral Council and Councillors and do education work in local schools.
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Monmouth Park Orchard
Monmouth Park is very much a blank canvass, an open green space. Although there are some trees in the park, much more can be done to make it more enjoyable and environmentally friendly for park users and local residents. At the moment the park is very much a cut through. Read more [...]
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Enhancement of entrances to the Nant Fawr Woodlands
The Friends of Nant Fawr is a voluntary group and we work with 6 local schools in the local environment. The Nant Fawr is 100 acre site of meadows and woodlands in the north of the City and the entrances are neglected areas (the local council depends on local volunteers Read more [...]
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Gift a Bundle – Gifting on outgrown baby clothing.
Redistributing good quality, outgrown baby and children’s clothing as gifts between families for Mother’s Day. When it comes to childrenÂ’s clothing weÂ’ve been looking behind the seams. A whopping 183 million items of outgrown baby clothing are stashed in UK homes, enough to provide over 250 items for each baby Read more [...]
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Edible Avenue SW8
We are residents from the local area working to green up three estates – Patmore, Carey Gardens and Savona. We come together every Friday morning 10-12 to garden around the local area, helping people who cannot look after their own gardens, and developing more wildlife and food growing areas in Read more [...]
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New Malden Garden Taskforce
New Malden Garden Taskforce is a way for gardeners to get together and tackle big projects in a group together. Are you interested in joining New Malden’s newest task force. We are looking for energetic team of local volunteers where needed to brighten our town? Facebook Group: New Malden Garden Taskforce
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Creating wildlife corridors with native trees and hedging.
We are an inclusive community group situated in the heart of the Lincolnshire farming countryside and have been given a grant from The Woodlands trust for 500 native trees and 850 meters of hedgerow. This is to create more safe corridors for native British wildlife to allow them cover from Read more [...]
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South East Essex Seed Share!
South East Essex Organic Gardeners in partnership with Trust Links and Southend in Transition SATURDAY, 24th FEBRUARY 10:00 -14:00 Corner of Fairfax Drive and Prittlewell Chase Admission FREE – Refreshments and much more Take some freebies home. Bring your seeds to swap or donate to our seed bank. Get surprised Read more [...]
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Make Dyke House Beautiful
A group of keen volunteers guerilla gardening on our Estate to make the place look and feel better.
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Online Pollination Checker
Hello all, we have been working hard on upgrading our pollination tool which you can freely use which enables you to see the pollination guides for an assortment of plants and trees. We are currently updating the website information and adding in as much data as possible, so if you Read more [...]
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Gardening for All, Big or small! Friends of Morgan Jones Park Community Allotments, Caerphilly
With many thanks to the funding from the Greggs Foundation Grants Fund, we are now able to proceed to work on three aspects of our Community Allotments. These are -a quiet, wildlife area, where folk with mental issues are able to reflect and relax, the second is to enlist input Read more [...]
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Hedgehog re-introduction and education programme
Our hedgehog re-introduction project involves fostering and caring for young hogs, setting up hog houses and food stations, releasing healthy hogs into the wild in the village, educating and encouraging the opening up of gardens and wilding of gardens to make them hog friendly. Using a night time camera to Read more [...]
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Tice’s Meadow Biodiverse Birdwatching Shelter
We are a community run volunteer group that works to manage the Tice’s Meadow Nature Reserve, near Badshot Lea in Surrey. Our project is the construction of a birdwatching shelter and community volunteering hub on the viewing mound on site. The shelter will be a converted second-hand shipping container, with Read more [...]
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Incredible Edible Avenue SW8
Greening the area between Thessaly Road and Stewarts Road, covered by three estates, Patmore, Carey Gardens and Savona. Planting fruit tees and bushes to create a community orchard Running regular gardening workshops – The Potting Shed Working with schools and community groups Upskilling around horticulture, upcycling, cooking, healthy eating Volunteering Read more [...]
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Developing a wildlife-friendly community garden in Mickleton (near Chipping Campden)
Connecting people with nature (World Environment theme 2017) Objective: to develop a small portion of the lawn area behind the Methodist Church as a ‘Community Garden with butterfly/bee-friendly shrubs and plants, a narrow strip of native wild flowers (characteristic of old flower meadows). Some bird boxes/feeders and insect ‘hotels’ might Read more [...]
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Incredible Edible Hooky School Garden
Our Incredible School Garden Project aims to develop a growing space within the grounds of the village school including raised growing beds for fruit and vegetables, a green house, cold frames, bee hotels, a compost bin and wormery. Children will be able to learn about sustainable horticulture, ecology and the Read more [...]
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Morfa Gateway Project
A Community Environmental Project in Prestatyn, North Wales. Project proudly supported in 2019 by Grow Wild the national outreach initiative of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Kew). Top Picture 2018 Bottom Picture 2019 Our project was established in 2017. We are working to transform a site that was once a waste disposal site. Anti-social Read more [...]
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Nuts about Nature with Warwickshire Wildlife Trust
The Education Team at Warwickshire Wildlife Trust will deliver four free pop up environmental education sessions for parents and young families (aimed at 2-12 year olds – but not exclusive to) who visit ElliottÂ’s Field Retail Park. The sessions will be held over a 5 month period to maximise the Read more [...]
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PoetsÂ’ Corner Community Garden
Since January 2016 the members of PoetsÂ’ Corner Community Garden have taken on and transformed an underused former community garden on the Bethnal Green Estate & created a renewed, bigger, more beautiful garden & resource for the local community. Despite being the newest community garden in Tower Hamlets, PoetsÂ’ Corner Community Garden Read more [...]
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Hackney Fixers
Hackney Fixers is a community repair project which aims to promote repair in the London Borough of Hackney as an alternative to growing mountains of waste and consumption. As a joint project of Sustainable Hackney and Hackney and Tower Hamlets Friends of the Earth we were inspired by The Restart Read more [...]
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Largs Organic Gardens
Community Garden at Largs Railway Station. A Viking themed community garden, created on a disused area of old track bed within the Railway Station. Situated next to Platform 1 garden members grow their own organic fruit, vegetables and flowers in whiskey barrels and raised beds. We have communal fruit trees, Read more [...]
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Garden City Sensory Garden
We plan to turn an unused space in an area of our park into a more exciting, relaxing and inclusive sensory garden for residents, helping to improve mental & physical well-being. It will be accessed from a new disabled parking bay and dropped kerbside, with circular planters to allow easy Read more [...]
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Southfields Harvest
EAT, MEET, MAKE AND SHARE AT SOUTHFIELDS HARVEST. Neighbourhood festival celebrating this lively patch of SW18. Ever wondered what went on in Southfields? Come along to Southfields Harvest to find out. Connect with your community. Network with your neighbours, share ideas and information over a beer from Southfields very own Read more [...]
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Clackmannan Town Hall Community Garden
Community garden being created on waste ground beside Clackmannan Town Hall.
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Petts Wood and Orpington Chess Club
Petts Wood and Orpington Chess Club welcomes visitors. We meet on Friday evenings at St John’s URC, Lynwood Grove Orpington BR6 0BG from 6.30-7.30pm for juniors (U18s) accompanied by an adult, and 7.30pm for adults, from September to April each year. For more details, visit our website or contact secretary@pwchessclub.org
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Sign Posting for Wheelchair accessible route
Jubilee Country Park is a local Nature Reserve of 62 acres of neutral grassland meadows and woodland that support a variety of wildlife including species that are rare in London. Up until recently very little is accessible by wheelchairs. idVerde, with a grant from TFL are surfacing a circular route which Read more [...]
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Restoration of Old English Garden, Danson Park
Restoration of the Old English Garden, Danson Park, which was set to be grassed over by Bexley Council in 2015. All our volunteers are members of the Friends of the Shuttle, which keeps that river (flowing from Avery Hill to Hall place) free of litter & debris. We hope to Read more [...]
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Growing Great Things at Aspire Ryde
Growing Great Things is a project aimed at improving the physical and mental health and well-being of all the participants. Through gardening together in the community garden, people will grow vegetables, fruit, flowers and friendship. Each group meets weekly throughout the year, carrying out gardening activities and having plenty of Read more [...]
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Growing Great Things
Growing Great Things is a project aimed at improving the physical and mental health and well-being of all the participants. Through gardening together in the community garden, people will grow vegetables, fruit, flowers and friendship. Each group meets weekly throughout the year, carrying out gardening activities and having plenty of Read more [...]
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Clennon Valley Lakes
Volunteer group restoring the bays finest wetland nature reserve back to its former glory. Created by Torbay Council in the early 1980Â’s Clennon Valley Lakes providing a nature reserve for wildlife but equally a place for the local community to use and enjoy. The nature reserve areas were fenced, planted Read more [...]
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Edible High Town
We are renovating and replanting many of the green spaces around High Town, Luton, with edible plants and wild flowers for pollinators. The project consists of local volunteers, a coordinator and funded gardeners who maintain the plots. We look forward to adding some pictures of our progress!
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Swiss cottage community gardening
community gardening,aims to improve connections and bring people together understanding the natural environment. Creating healthy spaces to nurture skills and knowledge. Growing edible herbs, or vegetables whiles being resourceful and kind
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Friends of dartmouth Community Orchard
The friends of Dartmouth Community Orchard was founded in November 2014 and now has 160 members. Its aims are: To conserve and enhance the Dartmouth Community Orchard as an Open Green Space with unsupervised access for members of the public. To ensure that it is managed as an orchard in Read more [...]
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Wildlings Kid’s Club
Wildlings Kid’s Club for children aged 2 – 12, along with their parents/adults, will provide a weekly opportunity for outdoor learning experiences and creative play in a natural environment. Activities including: planting, creating wildlife habitats, wildlife crafts, tree identification, muddy play, storytelling and more.
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Nightingale Garden
A biodiverse community garden for everyone to enjoy. Volunteers meet every Sunday and Monday afternoon from 2 to 4pm, weather allowing, with gardeners tea at 3. Easy to join in, or just enjoy the garden with us. The garden is in the former bowling green in the corner of Nightingale Read more [...]
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Veg Box Project
We at Make Do and Mend have setup a workshop to reuse pallets in order to make ready-to-use raised beds for self-grown vegetables. The raised beds are to be supplied to companies, those in need and local community areas. They are installed and provided with compost and plants. This initiative Read more [...]
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Grown in Peckham
Grown in Peckham is a volunteer session aimed at learning about food growing and raising plants. The day runs from 11-4 with a shared lunch from 1-2. In exchange for their effort in the garden volunteers get to take home a share of the harvest. Everyone welcome, no prior skills necessary.
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Cemetery and War graves improvement by Friends of Blackburn Old Cemetery
Improvement, Clean up and maintenance of a neglected council owned closed cemetery, this area contains in excess of 300 war graves and represents a historical record for many families in Blackburn, due to years of neglect many areas are inaccessible to many family members both able bodied and disabled. We Read more [...]
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Whitley Bay Community Allotment and Gardens
We hope to clear some scrubby overgrown land that is part of our allotment site, to extend our site and give us more small organic allotment plots we can offer the local community of Whitley Bay and Monkseaton
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Arcon CourtSheltered Housing Garden Planters Project
Funding received from Greggs Foundation Environmental Grant to purchase Planters and fill with Shrubs.
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Grow Your Own At Home!
Learn how to grow fruit & veg in a series of FREE monthly sessions in Tooting on the second Saturday morning of the month, 10.30am- 12.30pm. No previous gardening experience necessary. Learning sessions include practical activities and a handout covering the basics. We can also help you with ideas about Read more [...]
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Wandsworth Composting Project
We’re aiming to make composting easier for people in London Borough of Wandsworth! As well as offering support around the conventional ‘cool’ composting of garden waste, we’re exploring how to make usable compost from food waste using wormeries and ‘hot’ composting bins.
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Global Gardens Project
The Global Gardens Project is about coming together through gardening, food and working with clay. Our vision to celebrate ecological and cultural diversity. We are currently working on creating an organic kitchen garden at our site at Flaxland Allotments, located just off Whitchurch Road on Sachville Avenue, CF14 3NY. We Read more [...]