Established in 2009, Father Nature is a Brixton based social enterprise focusing on the  permaculture landscape design, build & maintenance of public sector, private & community horticultural projects around London. We work with individuals, families, schools, TRAs, Lambeth Council, Brixton BID, and a host of environmental, educational and community focused Read more [...]

Worried about Brexit? Not sure what happens after the 29th of March? Heard of the 4 meals before anarchy maxim? You’re not alone, what with news of people stock piling food and the newspapers and media bracing for hard Brexit and the prospect of supermarkets running dry, riots in the Read more [...]

We use the art of Professional Wrestling to create opportunity for people to grow and maximise their personal potential. We also work in Schools in direct partnership with the Police supporting Primary School Age Children to take The Right Road in life. We in addition work with many disadvantaged young 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 [...]

The aim of this project is to continue our works along Wellfield pond to improve biodiversity by planting new species of native wetland plants, as well as adding a solar aeration system to improve oxygen levels within the pond.   Whilst we are predominantly fishermen, we are conservationists at heart. 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 [...]

Planting wild flowers and creating bug houses in the community. Series of art projects to highlight the importantce of bees and insects, cummulating in a huge art parade through the village and community BBQ/Art exhibition.

We’re thrilled to announce a new project, Jacksons Grow, which has been funded by the People’s Postcode Lottery in order to engage local residents within the community and to create environmental change. Jacksons Grow will be a volunteer-led project that will give local residents the opportunity to develop new skills Read more [...]

Greater Manchester Community Renewables (GMCR) has launched a share offer to fund solar arrays at Broadoak Primary School, Bridgewater Primary School, Light Oaks Infant & Junior Schools and Peel Hall Primary School This will help them save money, reduce their carbon emissions and inspire children (and grown-ups!) to learn about Read more [...]

We’re creating the first-ever community eco-hostel in London. The vision is: ‘A hostel in London where people who share values of social change, sustainability and wellbeing can connect and inspire each other.’ The hostel is a non-profit social enterprise. We plan to reinvest any surplus to offer people who do Read more [...]

Grow N22 exists to transform unlikely, disused and neglected spaces across Haringey into vibrant community gardens and growing spaces made for and by local people. We’re currently running  projects in and around Wood Green: Westbury Banks Nature Reserve Green Rooms Garden Noel Park Green Spaces St Mungos and a project Read more [...]

Reddy Lane’s stall on Levenshulme Market and veg box scheme is one of only a few outlets for locally grown organic veg in Manchester. It is the only one where you can meet the growers, and all the income goes directly to cover farm costs and pay their wages. This Read more [...]

Wild Learning provides a regular learning day in the woods for people in and around Taunton who have mental health issues, are unemployed, on low incomes, homeless or just need some social contact.  We create a community together for the day, have a walk through the woods learning about nature Read more [...]

By day: The Hornbeam is an environmental zero waste community centre.By night we have a huge variety of events from educational film nights to pop up supper clubs.  We run workshops on permaculture, ethical business strategies, art therapy, herbalism and a kombucha making class. We host DJ nights, Open Decks, Read more [...]

Who are Punch and Juicy Liquid Foods Punch and Juicy Liquid Foods are an Award winning social enterprise that primarily started out selling and promoting healthy liquid food We currently pop up in temporary locations including markets and events as a hire-able juice bar serving fresh Juices, Smoothies , Soups Read more [...]

A free Allotment Gardening group for local families with pre-school children at the corner of Archbishop’s Park. The two hour long workshops provide season planting, harvesting and craft activities for adults and children to enjoy together.   Sessions run every Friday from 10 am – 12 noon. Children and their parents/carers Read more [...]

Street Goat is an urban community farming project, that began in 2015. The project has two sides: a community run goat dairy producing milk for 20 households, and a grazing project which takes male goat kids to produce sustainable meat. Street Goat works in urban Bristol, taking land that is Read more [...]

PotentialMe is set up to help and support to disadvantaged mums, dads and carers,  start a journey of self-discovery to lead themselves into their desired career. What we set out to do: Help, support and empower you to map out a suitable career for yourself as well as create a Read more [...]

Audacious Veg grows delicious food for London restaurants, and trains other people how to do it too. We grow edible flowers, gourmet salad mixes and micro-herbs that inspire your tastebuds with every mouthful. Not only are we environmentally responsible, but our produce is grown by local young adults who are Read more [...]

Well Grounded is a Speciality Coffee Training Academy, changing lives. We link people looking for work with an industry looking for talent. We are London’s first social enterprise solely focused on developing talent within the speciality coffee industry. What makes us different is that whilst we provide training for everyone, Read more [...]

We need help all year round! Come along any Tuesday 10ish till 2ish and help us tidy the orchard. Sit and enjoy the wildlife, help us with some light weeding or planting, or we can even find you some more strenuous jobs if you’re interested!

Get Out More’s Outdoor Adventure Club has been shortlisted in the National Lottery and ITV’s The People’s Projects Competition.  The projects with the most votes will win up to £50,000 lottery funding.  We need YOUR vote! The Outdoor Adventure Club is an exciting programme of outdoor activities for children and Read more [...]

The Orchard Project is running a Community Gardening Group in Islington –  Come get involved and help us transform Wynford Community Hall Garden! Starts next week! -The The first session we’ll explore ideas for the space and invite the residents to explore the potential and vision.

Komaru outdoor adventure , are a community based outdoor/ bushcraft project . Komaru aims to involve everybody in the community in activities, shelter building, fire lighting, wood carving, primitive living. What  are we are looking for? Komaru is looking  community minded people  who are  happy to do a bit of woodland work, Read more [...]

Physical Folk is a Kent based social enterprise dedicated to training local young people from all backgrounds and abilities in the ways of affordable film-making, from writing & acting, to directing & editing and screening. We aim to boost the confidence of all participants, and assist them in becoming ready Read more [...]

Physical Folk is a Medway social enterprise dedicated to training local young people from all backgrounds and abilities in the ways of affordable film-making, from writing & acting, to directing & editing and screening. We aim to boost the confidence of all participants, and assist them in becoming ready to Read more [...]

Community Garden & Play Area outside volunteer-run neighbourhood hub & cafe.

We are using our grant money to plant a native hedgerow along a woodland edge.  This will enhance the habitat for wildlife but also people who enjoy the woodland.

We run a social enterprise across two of our sites, working with children and young people aged 5-16. We garden (maintain and develop the grounds, plant and grow food), do craft/construction (making benches, bird boxes, bug hotels, mosaics) and marketing (branding, costing, market research)

Hope is a long established charity providing support to the homeless and disadvantaged in Northampton. Our social enterprise helps give people training and work opportunities.  We are developing a new social enterprise, Hope Gardening, which will train people in gardening on some reclaimed allotments, producing food for our existing day Read more [...]

We are a fully mutual housing co-operative and gift shop selling local crafts.

Soil is the foundation of thriving plant life at Sutton Community Farm, and composting is a vital way for us to enrich our soil in a sustainable fashion: recycling waste vegetable matter to produce a nutritious input for our vegetable growing activities. The Greggs Foundation is funding a new project Read more [...]

Power Up North London is a joint project between Transition Dartmouth Park, Transition Tufnell Park and Transition Kentish Town. The Transition Towns movement in the UK aims to make communities stronger, greener and more self-reliant. Following in the steps of community groups in Brixton and Hackney, we formed in 2014 Read more [...]

Dagenham Farm is part of Growing Communities, a community-led organisation based in Hackney, North London, which is providing a real alternative to the current damaging food system. Over the past 20 years, we have created two main community-led trading outlets – anorganic fruit and vegetable bag schemeand theGrowing Communities Farmers’ Read more [...]

The Federation of Rescued Kitchenware – or F.O.R.K. – provides starter kits of second-hand kitchenware to students and others moving into a new home in London.  Our mission is to reduce waste by rescuing good-quality second-hand kitchenware, provide a convenient service that makes peoples’ move into London a bit easier Read more [...]

Mid Sussex Wood Recycling is a Social Enterprise that recycles waste timber from industry. We have set up the Grow Project with Pericles which is an organisation supporting adults with learning difficulties. We are growing fruit and veg to teach the adults about the importance of fresh food. We have Read more [...]

WESC Country Gardens The new WESC Country Gardens, social enterprise, horticultural project is already providing valuable opportunities and experiences for the students at WESC Foundation, thanks to an Environmental Grant from Greggs Foundation! The social enterprise department already has 5 shops and an online eBay store which are all creating Read more [...]

Find out more about what it’s like to train with Nature Workshops as a Forest School Leader. Come join us in the woods for lunch, play, tools and fire in these magical local woods. Find out more about our training and the funding opportunities available to learn with us! Explore Read more [...]

Find out more about what it’s like to train with Nature Workshops as a Forest School Leader. Come join us in the woods for lunch, play, tools and fire in these magical local woods. Find out more about our training and the funding opportunities available to learn with us! Explore Read more [...]

VOLUNTEERS WANTED. Upskill, skill share, creatives, professionals, try hards and artists…You are most welcome to come join us on the Goodship Verda and friends as part of Adur Arts Collective… It appears like an apparition more at home in the backwaters of Kooksville, California…  A pebble’s throw from Brighton, yet you Read more [...]

Growing People is a charity and horticultural social enterprise based on Wolverton’s Urb Farm where the small team of staff work with disengaged young people and volunteers to grow food for the local community. The 2.5 acres of land in the heart of residential Wolverton has been managed by the Read more [...]

Outdoor People is a not-for-profit social enterprise, dedicated to making the outdoors easy, especially for children and families. We are a great outdoors shop, we do research, we get involved in projects and campaigns and we work with others to get everyone, especially children, outdoors more! Why? Because we can’t Read more [...]

A new 5 acre forest garden where we will grow over 100 edible flowers, shrubs, herbs, trees, climbers and perennial vegetables. Our mission is “edible gardens for good” and we have the following aims: To grow a wide range of edible crops To support good causes To promote health and well being Read more [...]

Dear Project-Dirter’s Quite pressingly in need of IT & video assistance for a fundraising music project. Person/s ideally ought to feel STRONGLY about the seeds/ food/ agriculture dilemma in which we find ourselves. Although this strong interest is not an overt prerequisite it may help take the ‘sting’ out of Read more [...]

Devonport SOUP returns for 2016 on Thursday 25th February for its second eagerly anticipated event for Plymouth, once again held at Devonport Guildhall. Join the community event from 7:30pm, as four individuals pitch to the audience with their own ideas on how to make a positive change in their community. Read more [...]

I wish to have a badly – damaged painting, a Funeral Hatchment, restored to the point where it can be displayed for public viewing at Old All Saints Church in Skelton. The Hatchment, one of four, was previously on display at the tiny historic Church of St. Andrew at Upleatham Read more [...]

Meet local people, grow herbs, flowers and vegetables. Enjoy more time outside and help bring your community garden to life. No previous experience needed. Just turn up! For more information contact Natalie on 020 7021 1600 or n.mady@coinstreet.org

A community run 30acre working farm. We grow fruit and vegetables, raise livestock, run a care farm, hold workshops have a working woodland and sell produce direct to the community. We offer the opportunity for volunteers to get involved with day-to-day running of the farm.

Audacious Veg is a bold new social enterprise creating training & employment opportunities for local young adults through urban agriculture. Our socially responsible business model addresses the need for skills and employment in northeast London, while meeting a growing demand for local food. Young adult trainees at Audacious Veg will Read more [...]