Pond dipping is a great outdoor activity that really connects young people with nature and their environment. Restoring this pond not only will benefit the local community by providing a larger, safer site to undertake several different activities, but also the wildlife that inhabits it. Currently overgrown trees and scrub Read more [...]

Our aim is to grow fresh and healthy vegetables in our community garden to complement our healthy living project, we will be growing these vegetables, cook in our community kitchen and eat in our community centre, we will also be using this to teach gardening and other skills to our users enabling them Read more [...]

CPRE believes a beautiful, thriving countryside is important for everyone, no matter where they live. Millions of town and city dwellers recharge their batteries with a walk or a bike ride in the local Green Belt, spend weekends and holidays in the countryside, or enjoy fresh local produce. People who Read more [...]

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 [...]

Plot 22 is a Community Allotment and one of the projects provided is Community Sundays. We want to increase the diversity of local people who come to Plot 22.   We are offering: a) Two facilitated taster sessions for up to 10 people (and their children), where participants: • plant, care for, harvest Read more [...]

Free weekly gardening sessions, with an emphasis on growing and caring for plants using a combination of permaculture and traditional gardening methods. Thursdays 10am-12pm & 1pm-3pm & Saturdays 11am-3pm. No experience necessary. Not suitable for children.

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 [...]

Woodcroft Wildspace is an educational wildspace for the benefit of the whole of Enfield. The Downes Court entrance has been closed off for many years resulting in it being overgrown and disused. It was re-opened in January 2018 and has been prepared for this project by the community volunteers installing Read more [...]

Access Dorset is a registered charity organised and ran by disabled people, older people and carers. We have created a vibrant community resource at The Bridge in Bournemouth where we and our partners deliver a combination of diverse activities focused on tackling isolation and exclusion; promote independence and equality; empower people Read more [...]

A fantastic health and well being project set within 40 other allotments.  Co designed and delivered by veterans with help from the local community. This has seen the transformation of a derelict allotment into a safe place for our Armed Forces Families to meet. New friendships have been formed. This Read more [...]

We have a gardening club we wish to further advertise it to spread it to all the community. We will be using an expert gardener to offer professional advice and tips, we will use him as session worker on a monthly basis to go through giving us tips and advice Read more [...]

Pop Farm is participating in this years London The Big Dig 2018 Come and join us between 10:30am-1:30pm to enjoy doing some urban gardening and learn about urban food growing. What we will do on the day Sow seeds Plant out seedlings Learn about growing seasons Learn about soil composition Take Read more [...]

Volunteering opportunities for young people, aged 11 to 16 years, to improve the physical environment of Roker Park, through activities including vegetation management and plant propagation. Young people will be taught a range of practical skills, providing them with a wide variety of skills and knowledge. CEED is delivering this Read more [...]

Earth Moves offers educational and transformational experiences and events. We are a cooperative who adhere to cooperative ethics and principles. We advocate holistic, self-empowered and creative ways of engagement, healing, conflict resolution and enhanced understanding. We believe that arts, well-being activities, nature immersion and horticulture are life-enhancing for the individual, Read more [...]

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 [...]

This year our academy has a strong focus on recycling, composting and becoming a greener academy! We will also post about our Trinity Farm. All of our students are always interested to get involved with our outdoor projects across the full campus, especially with our lovely farm animals!

The friends of Walton hall park are an award winning group of volunteers working in the park situated in the north of Liverpool. The group has been growing plants in pots for three years now. But with the help of the Big Lottery they have now started a great community Read more [...]

I work for a not for profit organisation called Cultivation Street, the founder being the Love your Garden gardener David Domoney. Cultivation Street was set up to primarily support community gardens – whether that be a community groups, school garden or even individual projects. Although the main attraction to Cultivation Read more [...]

Rooted in Hull (RiH) is an innovative Urban Agriculture Project currently being developed on St Peter’s Street in the centre of Hull. Working in partnership with local business, RiH has take over a vacant development site and with the help of a broad coalition of community groups, local and national Read more [...]

By popular demand, Trust Links are moving Wassailing to Sunday 28 January at  14:00-15:30 at St Laurence Orchard. Come and wake the trees up for the Spring in historic St Laurence Orchard, located in  Eastwoodbury Lane (at the junction with St. Laurence Way), Southend-on-Sea Sample the spiced apple juice, join Read more [...]

From October to December 2017 we at TheWharton Tust, The Annexe have been randomly planting over 5000 crocus and daffodil bulbs out in the community of Dyke House.  We have a great team of volunteers who were out even in the snow! #geurillagardening  So far we have planted at The Read more [...]

The riverbank in this part of Sleaford has, over the years, become very eroded exposing the tree roots.  This has been exacerbated by the large population of ducks that have worn the grass away in the area. These factors have created a very poor environment for both the fish and Read more [...]

Habitat management for nightingales and heath regeneration work. Scalloping a gorse hedge to open it up provide an open space for the public and greater area for birds to nest in. Removing self set trees to encourage a heath land habitat for the local community and the wildlife 

Local voluntary organisation The Conservation Volunteers will clear, prepare and replant an area of land at the cemetery. Fast growing shrubs will be planted to provide a barrier at the edge of the cemetery and enhance the area for wildlife. A variety of shrub species, selected for their value as Read more [...]

we are creating a wildlife garden within our school grounds

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 [...]

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 [...]

We are delighted to have been awarded funding from the Community Project Fund supported by the Greggs Foundation.  Growing Matters is a new charity operating from Gilmerton House Kitchen Garden, delivering therapy through horticulture.  We have an enthusiastic group of volunteers from a variety of backgrounds, all united in the Read more [...]

We are delighted to have been awarded funding from the Community Project Fund supported by the Greggs Foundation.  Growing Matters is a new charity operating from Gilmerton House Kitchen Garden, delivering therapy through horticulture.  We have an enthusiastic group of volunteers from a variety of backgrounds, all united in the Read more [...]

We are delighted to have been awarded funding from the Community Project Fund supported by the Greggs Foundation.  Growing Matters is a new charity operating from Gilmerton House Kitchen Garden, delivering therapy through horticulture.  We have an enthusiastic group of volunteers from a variety of backgrounds, all united in the Read more [...]

Mr and Mrs Polluto is a series of fun-filled, interactive family performances for ages 4+ that generate an interest in caring for the environment and recycling. Taking place in Redbridge libraries and housing estates, the performances encourage residents to recycle more, litter less and take pride in sustaining green neighbourhoods.

Future Gardeners – new course start date – Wednesday 16th January Are you looking to get into gardening as a career? Are you currently unemployed and not sure where to start? Future Gardeners is a 10 week part-time course which will support you into a career in horticulture. It is 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 [...]

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 [...]

There will be 3 main types of activity that will directly benefit our service users (co-workers) and the local community as well as the environment in which they work and live. Firstly we will develop more microhabitats and niches including: Butterfly garden – designed to feed caterpillars as well as Read more [...]

Join us at Pop Farm an urban garden sitting in central Brixton. Starting at 10am we will be gardening on site, tending to our edible and ornamental sections of the site. Maintaining this green oasis involves a range of tasks, suitable for a wide range of participants, offering the chance 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 [...]

This year Skelton Grange Environment centre is celebrating it’s 25th birthday and working with a group of volunteers from the local community we will help to further improve the nature reserve through various conservation tasks. These will include sowing wildflower meadows, planting a vegetable garden, managing hedges, ponds and woodlands 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 [...]

Hello everyone, My wife and I are looking to open a zero waste shop in Southfields (South West London), providing fresh, local, organic products that have no waste. Customers can bring in containers or use the shop’s paper bags and jars to fill them with products such as veg, pastas, Read more [...]

Do something amazing with your holidays – Free to Be Kids is looking for energetic, passionate volunteers to help lead incredible holiday projects for particularly disadvantaged children. Can you spare a week to help? Free to Be is a growing London based charity supporting children and young people who are Read more [...]

We have been allowed to take ownership of a field behind the school, which is landlocked and owned by the local authority. It is 5.2 acres and we plan to develop a school farm, and an area for the children to do PE.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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

Active local charity working since 2007 to regenerate a deprived area through community orchards, woodlands, growing spaces, floral enhancement, community art and heritage, events and more