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 [...]
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Armed Forces Allotment Project
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 [...]
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Community gardening for All
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 [...]
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Big Dig 2018: Pop Farm @ Pop Brixton
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 [...]
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CEED – Gardening Skills for Young People
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 [...]
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Earth Moves Cooperative
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 [...]
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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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Trinity Academy going green!
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!
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Walton Community Garden & Growing scheme
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 [...]
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Cultivation Street
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 [...]
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Rooted in Hull
Rooted in Hull (RiH) is an innovative Urban Agriculture Project currently being developed on St PeterÂ’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 [...]
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Wassailing in St Laurence Orchard!
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 [...]
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Guerilla gardening – let the petal see the metal
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 [...]
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Sleaford Navigation Bank Improvements
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 [...]
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All in the Making at Layer Breton Heath
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
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Wildlife Corner
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 [...]
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Edible Rotherhithe
Edible Rotherhithe will transform an vacant area of land at the rear of a social housing estate into a thriving new community space in Rotherhithe, SE16. The project will feature a well being garden, food growing, a carpentry workshop, arts and crafts and, skills development opportunities run by ourselves and Read more [...]
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Valley View Wildlife Garden
we are creating a wildlife garden within our school grounds
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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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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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Bee keeping training at Growing Matters – gardening therapy at Gilmerton House Kitchen Garden
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 [...]
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Bee keeping training at Growing Matters – gardening therapy at Gilmerton House Kitchen Garden
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 [...]
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Bee keeping training at Growing Matters – gardening therapy at Gilmerton House Kitchen Garden
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 [...]
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Mr and Mrs Polluto
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.
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Future Gardeners – helping you on the way to a career in horticulture
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 [...]
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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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Punch and Juicy liquid foods
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 [...]
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Greening De Frene Market Garden
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 [...]
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Pop Farm Urban Gardening weekly workshop
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 [...]
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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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Skelton Grange Conservation Sessions
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 [...]
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Archbishop’s Park Pre-School Family Allotment
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 [...]
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Southfields organic zero waste shop
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 [...]
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Free to Be Kids
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? Â Free to Be Kids helps vulnerable children from inner-city London to experience feeling valued, brave, Read more [...]
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Greenholm Primary School Farm
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.
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Wild Cat Wilderness
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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Clackmannan Town Hall Community Garden
Community garden being created on waste ground beside Clackmannan Town Hall.
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CLEAR Buckhaven
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
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Update kitchen
ICARE Day Centre Trust Limited is a small, friendly day centre offering rehabilitation and support for people who have suffered a stroke, and offers support and respite for their carers. The clients are given refreshments and lunch, and activities such as speech therapy, balance and coordination exercise and other enjoyable activities. 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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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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Help Create a Jungle Corridor in Peckham!
We have the exciting opportunity you to join us at Peckham Levels to plant jungle theme plants into the laneway between Rye Lane and Peckham High street. Your involvement will bring life into a currently dead space in a well used walkway, and help green up your local area. Together Read more [...]
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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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Sugar Smart Exeter
Sugar Smart Exeter is a local version of the national Sugar Smart campaign run by Jamie Oliver’s Food Foundation and Sustain (www.sugarsmartuk.org) The initiative is run by Food Exeter – a partnership of organisations and individuals in the city motivated to promoting healthy eating and improving the food environment. We Read more [...]