The Wild Cat Wilderness is a unique, wild community green space in Catford coordinated by the Rushey Green Time Bank. Here the local community can explore nature and wildlife, play or relax in its peacefulness, learn new outdoor skills, share and enjoy the space with other local people of all Read more [...]
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Our Allotment
Ebbw Fawr Wellbeing Centre pupils would like the chance to help the environment and become more sufficient and independent as learners and young adults. The Wellbeing Centre provides support for pupils with emotional, social and behavioural issues. The allotment and garden area that pupils would like to create will also Read more [...]
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Growing fruit and vegetables
Pupils and staff at Dunblane Primary School have been busy planting, growing and now harvesting some of our fruit and vegetables which we have grown in the school grounds. We have 8 planters and several large boxes for potatoes. The pupils will then be making healthy meals in the school Read more [...]
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Grove Wood Wildlife Area and Allotment
The wildlife garden and allotments at Grove Wood had been neglected for some time. The veg plots were full of weeds, the wildlife garden overgrown with brambles and the pond liner was torn. With the help of Essex Wildlife Trust and a grant from Greener With Greggs, we are currently Read more [...]
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Blackhill Club Community Garden
Blackhill Club Community Garden has been designed and implemented by volunteers in Consett. We grow food together using Permaculture principles and organic methods to supply food for our free of charge Community Meal.
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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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Bee More Project
The Bee More Project with grant funding develops and delivers Social / Care Farming activities for vulnerable and disadvantaged groups or individuals improving health, wellbeing, up skilling improving employability and reduces social isolation. In February 2018 with financial support from the Greggs Foundation, Heritage Lottery, the Roger Stott (Both administered Read more [...]
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Offline Festival
Project Dirt, in collaboration with Power to Change and The Eden Project Communities, are gathering community businesses, social enterprises, community projects, socially responsible corporate partners, friends and family at the beautiful Hounslow Hall Estate, Buckinghamshire. Join us for an unconference in the countryside. A unique festival experience, Offline brings three Read more [...]
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Tyre Furniture Skills
Tyre Furniture skills is a project that was started in 2016 to deliver tyre furniture making as a recognisable income generating skill,in The Gambia. We succesfully ran the project in Jan/ Feb 2017 in The Gambia and trained two groups of people how to make 5 different peices of tyre Read more [...]
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Therapeutic Gardening Project: Gardening for Better Mental Health
Partners working together to develop a top end therapeutic garden. This will enhance the outdoor space for residents and will provide horticultural therapy support services. The garden designed with residents and staff includes a fully accessible path around the site , a quiet area with seating for relaxation, a pond, Read more [...]
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Impact Hub Westminter
Launched in 2011, Impact Hub Westminster is one of the largest of a global network of locally owned collaborative working spaces. Our primary aim is to support organisations with positive social and environmental impact at the heart of their missions. We provide flexible access to co-working space, business support and Read more [...]
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Whole Again Community Garden
Establishing a Community Garden in our Whole Again Community Space to be able to grow the food that we cook in our workshops. The garden will provide the space to teach and engage volunteers and students the skills needed to grow food practically and easily anywhere. The produce from Read more [...]
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Summer Garden Project
Summer Programme at Bilton Hall Community Trust Williby RocÂ’s provide Eco Arts and Crafts to children, families, community groups and adults.We use environmentally friendly, recyclable, pre-loved and woodland materials to deliver events, parties, workshops, after school clubs and education sessions. Here at Williby Roc’s we aim to release children’s potential Read more [...]
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London Wetland Centre – Family Summer Activities Team
At WWT we believe that the best way for people to understand and connect to wetlands is to experience them, so we bring awe-inspiring nature up close and let it do the talking. We are looking for enthusiastic volunteers to join our team to help run the London Centre’s Summer Read more [...]
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Stories and Supper
Stories & Supper is a refugee supper club project which aims to challenge some of the myths surrounding the migration crisis. Refugee and non-refugee volunteers work in partnership to produce great food and inspiring stories.
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Uxbridge Green Gym
Uxbridge Green Gym is a weekly, free, conservation volunteering session every Wednesday 11 – 2pm. The Conservation Volunteers’ Green Gyms’ aim to improve volunteers health and wellbeing through practical tasks, time spent outdoors in nature, meeting people, giving back to the community and taking care of green spaces. Volunteers meet Read more [...]
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Ambitious About Autism: TreeHouse School – Saplings Project
TreeHouse School Saplings is a TreeHouse School project. TreeHouse School, which is next door to the Saplings site, is a happy and vibrant community where children and young people with autism learn and flourish. We have places for 90 pupils with our youngest being 4 and our oldest being 19 years old. TreeHouse School provides children Read more [...]
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Forest of Mercia CIC
Forest of Mercia CIC uses the natural environment to educate, improve health and well-being and encourage everyone to use the outdoors in a way that’s right for them. We are developing Hilton Green into an environmental facility devoted to exploring exciting and innovative ways to support people to reach their Read more [...]
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Brunswick Primary School Garden
The Brunswick Primary School gardening project will heighten childrenÂ’s awareness and appreciation for the environment. Pupils will acquire gardening skills while learning about healthy eating. As well as attracting wildlife, the garden will provide a sanctuary for disadvantaged children. We will work with the local community to ensure the project is Read more [...]
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Audacious Veg
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 [...]
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Well Grounded
Well Grounded is a Speciality Coffee Training Academy, changing lives. We link people looking for work with an industry looking for talent. We are LondonÂ’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 [...]
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Bike to the Future
This local charity runs a bicycle repair workshop, whereby participants gain in Agoredd Cymru units in work place skills. We do not accredit cycle repair skills as such, but people can achieve in such units as communication, working with others, essential skills, ICT etc. We are also establishing a food Read more [...]
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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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Kench Hill Residential Education Centre
A residential environmental education charity, linked to Hackney Council, working with schools, voluntary groups and others to provide a rural retreat for education and personal development in the outdoors. Holistic approach with strong focus on healthy eating, growing and sustainability. Open all year. Our 2 acre garden is a haven Read more [...]
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UK Youth Climate Coalition International Team
This vacancy is to encourage you to apply for the UK Youth Climate Coalition’s 2017 international delegation for the annual United Nations Climate Conferences. The UK Youth Climate Coalition is a volunteer-run organisation that inspires young people to act on climate change for a clean, fair future. We train up Read more [...]
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Community Learning with Step Forward
We have partnered up with Groundwork London to offer a variety of community learning opportunities to the local community. From our well-equipped Teaching Room at the New Horizon Centre, with the help of our colleagues at Groundwork London, we are able to offer: Paediatric 1st Aid training (4 weeks); a Read more [...]
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The GREEN project
The GREEN project is a collaboration between 2 locally based social enterprises – Devenishgirl and the GLUE collective. During May and June we will be running a series of allotment workshops, cookery classes, volunteer opportunities and community days including: Build your allotment box (herbs for health) Cooking with asparagus Build your Read more [...]
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Peace Garden
We are building a Peace Garden at the front entrance of our school to give the children somewhere to go to sit and reflect about the children and staff we have lost and give them time for quiet.
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Raw Foundation
Raw Foundation helps to educate, engage and empower young people to move towards sustainable consumption and production. Everything we do is systems-focused, solution-oriented and change-driven. Raw Foundation’s Making Waves campaign aims to reduce the amount of oil-based plastic in the environment by raising awareness about the true extent of plastic Read more [...]
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Grow Chichester
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 [...]
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The Forest Recycling Project
The Forest Recycling Project is based in Walthamstow and is running a ‘Green Jobs’ project. It is aimed at those from the East London area, who have experienced social exclusion, discrimination or mental health challenges. If you want to gain hands on skills in environmentally friendly jobs and have the Read more [...]
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Pleasley Community Orchard Soft-Fruit Raised Bed Planters
Creation of raised bed planters for soft-fruit provision within our community orchard project. Working with schools and local volunteers, we aim to create a number of raised bed planters that will allow older people and younger people to work together and share skills and build relationships. As time passes, the Read more [...]
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Shepway Chariots Community Garden
shepway chariots have recently acquired half an acre of disused land which had become a hotspot for anti social behaviour and flytipping. Our aim is to transform the land into a fully functioning community garden. Where we will encourage local residents to learn how to grow, tend and harvest their Read more [...]
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“Social Art” at Nucleus Arts
“Social Art” at Nucleus Arts will provide a much-needed opportunity for anyone in Chatham and the surrounding areas to meet and enjoy a shared passion of creativity, regardless of where they come from, or the barriers they are facing in their lives. Weekly sessions facilitated by experienced artists will enable those who Read more [...]
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Brixton Orchard
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 [...]
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Arches Local (Big Local)
As part of the Big Local programme, an area in central Chatham which has been locally named ‘Arches Local’ was awarded £1million in the spring of 2012. The partnership was endorsed in June 2015, and is led by residents, and supported by local organisations. From the varied consultations with Arches Read more [...]
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The Berry Maze
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 [...]
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Pollinator Paths Wandsworth
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 [...]
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Devonport Work Club
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 [...]
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Pendeen Partnership
Pendeen is a special place – a strong vibrant community set within stunning wild countryside. But like many rural communities, it (and its people) face challenges. Pendeen has an activity community with a number of diverse groups, organisations and committed people working to ensure it is a place people love Read more [...]
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Caring Hands – Project Creative Hands
Project Creative Hands will be open to any of our guests who would like to take part and will offer a fortnightly afternoon (three hours) of creative work on a range of themes, from the practical (present-making, up-cycling clothes) to the purely creative. Our goal is to get an average Read more [...]
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Wild Whitworth
The aim is to make bug hotels, plant wildflowers, plant fruit trees and also to have an incredible edible patch in our community for all to enjoy and actively take part in the creation of. There wil be a series of creative activities for everyone to take part in and Read more [...]
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Stepping Stones
Stepping Stones is a small, vibrant charity for adults with learning disabilities. Our aim is to enrich lives by building skills, independence and making informed choices. We think it’s important for everyone to be able to take part in and make a contribution to the world around them, so working Read more [...]
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RSPB Wild Parks
This summer join us for a wild adventure in your local park in London and Brighton. The RSPB is working in partnership with Brighton and Hove Council, ideverde and the City of London Corporation to provide free nature activities for families. Hunt for bugs, spot birds or take our Wild Challenge and Read more [...]
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Wells Park School Farm and Garden
A primary school for children with Behavioural, Social and Emotional needs is developing a school farm and garden to support the education, social, therapeutic, health and food needs of the children.
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Woodland volunteers
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 [...]