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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 Elliott’s Field Retail Park. The sessions will be held over a 5 month period to maximise the Read more [...]

Since January 2016 the members of Poets’ 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, Poets’ Corner Community Garden Read more [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Community garden being created on waste ground beside Clackmannan Town Hall.

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

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Volunteer group restoring the bays finest wetland nature reserve back to its former glory. Created by Torbay Council in the early 1980’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 [...]

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!

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 

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 [...]

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. 

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.   

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 [...]

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

Funding received from Greggs Foundation Environmental Grant to purchase Planters and fill with Shrubs.

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

The Project is to develop a Community Allotment which facilitates environmental improvements by involving the community in developing and using a green growing space.

North London Organic Gardeners are the local branch of Garden Organic, the national charity for organic growing. We are a group of people who believe in gardening without the use of chemical fertilisers and poisonous sprays. We make compost and believe that by looking after the soil and feeding it Read more [...]

Unlike other gardening and conservation projects, our focus is as much on health and Well-being as it is on creating welcoming and healthy green space within the local community. After a few minutes warm up, we have plenty to keep us busy from cutting back overgrown foliage to increase the Read more [...]

Grow Chichester has set up and manages two community gardens and two community orchards intended for use by members of the local community. Free weekly therapeutic horticulture sessions led by a trained horticultural therapist are held for vulnerable groups such as the elderly and people with mental health issues. At Read more [...]

2017 looks set to be a historically turbulent, crisis-ridden year. It would be easy to give up on any attempt at changing the world for the better. Fortunately, there are a number of groups and individuals in Southend and the surrounding areas who see things differently. They’re working at grassroots Read more [...]

We now have funds to start on our Mayors Walk thanks to Project Dirt.  We are in discussions about which trees to plant.

The Brixton Orchard is a new green space with 35 fruit trees and hundreds of edible hedges, showcasing how fruit trees can be integrated into urban spaces. By growing fruit trees, we can reconnect people with food growing and spark some curiosity about the amazing diversity which cannot be found Read more [...]

This is an unique project in the UK. Beside the obvious scope of bringing together the residents by offering a space suitable for children play, organising treasure hunts, harvest day, etc, it could potentially become a tourist attraction, helping a struggling community hit hard by the local council cuts to Read more [...]

LSx are collaborating with community gardens across Wandsworth to deliver a project getting residents involved in nature and gardening, and boost biodiversity in the longterm! People with all levels of gardening experience are encouraged to take part. Throughout May we will be popping up at various community gardens in Wandsworth Read more [...]

The Work Club, started in 2013, is based in St Aubyn Church and library in Devonport. The Work Club serves any residents of Plymouth and the surrounding areas who are looking for employment, advice or pastoral advice. We also signpost individuals to relevant support so they are looked after in all Read more [...]

The grant will enable us to return a long un loved garden in Sunnyhurst woods to its former glory, beautifying the local environment and encouraging community ownership to sustain its ongoing use and appreciation. The grant will enable us achieve this by resourcing a series of monthly volunteer days over Read more [...]

Cranbrook Community Potluck A well being event to be held once a month in Cranbrook Exeter. A free event where people get together over a shared meal. Each family bring food to share and we facilitate the event. Run by the community for the community.  An alcohol free social gathering Read more [...]

Creation of a wildlife friendly green space on a field in Duxford Village that is owned by the Parish Council. 

In partnership with Westminster City council & Peabody Trust, PROJECT SOUP is a Small Works fundraiser for local entrepreneurs and project leaders in SW1. Small Works Victoria is hosting our third Project Soup on Thursday June 15th at Greencoat Place. Our last Soup in March raised £400 for two entrepreneurs in SW1, Read more [...]