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

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Springwell Community Memory Gardens lies in the heart of Springwell Estate and is the largest community asset in Gateshead. The garden is just under an acre in size and was badly neglected after being abandoned for 5 years before Silverline Memories took over the Lease in 2016. The garden has Read more [...]

The Tooting Twirl Team are looking for volunteers who can help us create and build a pop-up village green in the Tooting Broadway bus turning circle in Tooting, on 16th July! Inspired by last year’s Tour de Tooting, TTT will be creating a pop-up event in the Tooting Broadway bus turning circle Read more [...]

Summer Programme at Bilton Hall Community Trust Williby Roc’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 [...]

Spacehive Pimp A Bus-Stop ByWillesden Green Town Team Brent Fundraising stage Grow a green wall on top of our bus-stops. Pledges will only be charged if the project hits its funding goal of £3,439 by 20 Sep 2017 Willesden Green Town Team We want to transform our bus-shelters into homes Read more [...]

A small local project which supports those people living and coming to terms with sight and hearing loss. Our main aims are to reduce isolation, provide help advice and support through activities. These activities include computer classes, balance class, lunch club, reading group, handbell ringing, cookery class, singing and the Read more [...]

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 [...]

Creating a community garden with help from young people with learning or other disability such as autism.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

In May 2017 Carling launched Your Pint Can Help The Community, a nationwide campaign in partnership with J.D. Wetherspoon to improve local communities and make a difference across the UK.   The aim is to create a pot of money to which Carling and JDW consumers can nominate worthy local and Read more [...]

This project is providing the opportunity to utilise agreen community space. Having access to this space meanwe are in a position to help maintain it and promote its use to the wider community; creating further opportunities for local networking. The project will help to engage new local volunteers, to help 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 [...]

We are a local organisation providing play opportunities, short breaks and one to one care for children and young people with severe disabilities. We also offer a local, friendly and inclusive environment for families and their children to come and try out new things, celebrate a birthday or take part Read more [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The Peter Le Marchant Trust was set up in 1977 by Clare Le Marchant-Connell with an aspiration to provide canal boat experiences for the disabled and seriously ill.The Trust has achieved this and currently has two wide beam Boats and a narrowboat operating from Loughborough.The Boats carried 4300 passengers last Read more [...]

To create a Sensory and Wildlife garden at the Corran Dean CIC site of Smokey Farm, which will enable all of our service users, members of the public and wildlife alike to benefit from an outdoor space.  The garden area will have enable access by both wheel chair users and Read more [...]

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 [...]

We are a local community centre catering for all ages from nursery onwards. The centre is operated by a core group of 8 – 10 volunteers.  Operating out of the centre is a nursery, educational classes and courses including guitar lessons, language classes, art, sewing etc and health & fitness Read more [...]

Bodmin Junior parkrun A FREE 2K run for 4-14 year olds, every Sunday at 9am, in the heart of Bodmin. Bodmin wants to bring a Junior parkrun to the start of the Camel Trail, in the heart of Bodmin, so that our 4-14 year olds have the opportunity to run 2K every Sunday, in Read more [...]

Age UK Medway runs two specialised dementia day centres (Capstone Centre in Chatham, and Pat Warner Suite in Gillingham)  Our Clients supported by staff and volunteers will create big art collage using various techniques. Collective art work will be combined with reminiscing sessions, giving opportunity to look at how Chatham has Read more [...]

Age UK Medway runs two specialised dementia day centres (Capstone Centre in Chatham, and Pat Warner Suite in Gillingham)  Our Clients supported by staff and volunteers will create big art collage using various techniques. Collective art work will be combined with reminiscing sessions, giving opportunity to look at how Chatham has 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 [...]

A group of local residents working with a All Saints Community Project Trust member of staff to grow fresh produce for the Project’s Community Café with any surplus being given to local residents. Cultivation of a local allotment and raised beds in the Community Café garden. Assisting with a local open Read more [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

“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 [...]

Hospital Radio Medway is a non-profitable organisation which provides 24/7 radio programmes for all the patients in Medway Maritime Hospital. When we first started in 1970, the equipment was very basic and has been updated through the years. As more and more people nowadays prefer to listen to the radio on Read more [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]