Hedgerows are excellent wildlife habitats, providing shelter and food to numerous birds, small mammals and insects. The Bromley Green Gym was awarded over 300 saplings from the Woodland Trust in spring 2015. These were planted along the north-west border of College Green. To help these guys establish themselves, we would Read more [...]

We are opening-up an overgrown area of the gardens which runs between the wildflower meadows and the northern side of the park boundary. We will restore a woodland pathway running from the main pathway, along behind the wildflower meadows and emerging from the trees/bushes to the recently established bog garden. We will Read more [...]

We are a woodland based group who carry out practical conservation and traditional forestry at King’s Meadow, part of Longbeach Wood in The Kent Downs AONB. Our aim is to improve the environment for wildlife, nature conservation, and recreation whilst engendering a sense of community. We promote and share traditional forest Read more [...]

Bandstand Beds is a community group of volunteers who have been working on Clapham Common since 2012. Raised beds near the café first grew beans and squash with a sustainability agenda thinking about saving crops for the winter.  We branched out into beds near the Spinney where a hugel saw pumpkins Read more [...]

We want your ideas and comments at https://www.voxup.co.uk/camdenwastechallenge on the design of our new waste, recycling and street cleaning contract.  The contract starts in April 2017 and we want to involve Camden Residents so that together we identify the challenges, opportunities and solutions to managing our waste in the future.  Read more [...]

CEB’s Global Impact Week is about giving back to the the communities CEB works in around the world.

After forming in the summer of 2012, Roath Garden Party started work on Mackintosh Community Garden at the start of the following September. The RGP has now dissolved, but the Garden remains, under the guidance of Roath in Growth! 🙂 Our aim is, with the help of the local community, Read more [...]

The Morland Community Garden is a resident-led project to transform a once-neglected area at the heart of a 1960s-built Hackney estate into a communal garden space for all to enjoy.  The project grew out of a campaign by residents to improve the space on the estate. Its design has been Read more [...]

JOIN IN, FEEL GOOD! The Cassiobury Green Gym is looking for volunteers who want to improve their health and wellbeing by creating a better environment in the wonderful Cassiobury Park. Come along for as long as you like, enjoy the outdoors and work at your own pace and ability! Green Read more [...]

This is a demonstration Permaculture Forest Garden with lots of exotic trees and shrubs such as pomegranate, blue bean, goji berries, Chinese pears, a pond, greenhouse, as well as a vineyard and three other orchards. The Story Alex Smith started Alara in 1975 with £2 found on the street. He Read more [...]

Practical conservation, sustainability and community outreach volunteering projects. We’re looking for enthusiastic volunteers to help us deliver a wide range of projects throughout the year from a community food growing project, to habitat restoration, cultural installations and sporting events. West Ham Park, the largest park in the London Borough of Newham, Read more [...]

Opportunity Internship at Walnut Farm Norfolk, and 18 acre organic Land centre has been created. Internship at Walnut Farm, an 18 acre certified organic Land Centre in the heart of Norfolk We at Walnut Farm are excited to offer a 3 month residential intern placement for Spring of 2015. We Read more [...]

Award Winning Service offering Sheltered Training to disabled people in Horticulture and  Conservation.

A new community garden including an orchard and raised beds food-planting, open to everyone.

Community Centred Community Centred is a work in progress of the idea that the community is the level of existence at which, as a collection of interdependent families, a sustainable life and lifestyle makes most sense. That’s what we are, a collection of families that seek to come together cooperatively to Read more [...]

We are creating a community allotment and seating area in a green space attached to a housing block in Hoxton.  We are a small charity, Charushila, that works with youth and children, using discarded materials to create sustainable community projects. The first part of this project was the community consultation Read more [...]

This is the area where Project Dirt will host all of its resources about volunteering.  So whether you’re a host project seeking volunteers or a person or group looking for opportunities here is a good place to start: www.projectdirt.com/volunteering.

Trees for Cities is an independent charity established in 1993 that inspires people to plant and love trees in cities worldwide. We grow stronger communities, enhance urban spaces and improve health and happiness in areas of cities that need it most. We work in housing estates, parks, schools, community centres Read more [...]

Proper Job is a not for profit cooperative which is passionate about zero waste and stopping resources being lost in landfill. we have been composting since 1992 and opened our community cafe in 1995 and reuse site in 2000. our name Proper Job reflects the desire to create local work Read more [...]

To be the first contact for anybody wanting to find out more about all outdoor learning in Devon’s schools. To be the first port of call for everyone wanting to improve the food culture in their school. To be the umbrella organisation encompassing health, food, outdoor learning, waste reduction, composting, Read more [...]

At Old Paradise Yard we have been given the opportunity to explore how maintaining a productive garden in London can provide an economically viable and positive alternative for use of outdoor space: A garden that can work towards creating stronger communities, happier individuals and a healthier environment. The areas we Read more [...]

Parks on Wheels is an open competition run by Ash Sakula Architects to design a mobile pocket park. Six of the winning designers will then have the opportunity to build their proposal in February, with funding from the Transform Pocket Parks initiative, in time to be planted in the Spring. Read more [...]

equolo.org is a collaborative open source platform for a sustainable world. The equolo map helps people find places where to shop and consume in a socially and environmentally responsible way, and responsible entrepreneurs promote their activities and reach more customers

Weekly from 1.30pm to 4.30pm at Stratford Armouries We are creating a Forest Garden which will grow over 100 edible crops on a 2 acre site and in addition native and non native trees over 3 acres. Join us at the Forest Garden Club 11th November to 20th January for Read more [...]

The Garden of Scotland You probably know that East Lothian has for long been described as ‘The Garden of Scotland’. Local gardeners know the quality of the local soil – and you’ve told us you’d be delighted to buy more local food – at the right price. Right now, you Read more [...]

LOAP is a community growing project for local people. Mentored sessions help increase knowledge and confidence, there’s a friendly, relaxed atmosphere with time to chat, and tasting days to share some of the produce grown. Produce is also shared at the end of each session for members to take home. Read more [...]

Live or work in Ealing? Help our campaign to make London the world’s first National Park City by recruiting the support of Ealing Council.  Success: Northfields Ward passed a motion to support our call!  We are calling on the Mayor of London to investigate the options, benefits, costs, and opportunities creating Read more [...]

Feel the earth move! 5 – 10 people Monday 3rd November 9:00 – 5:00 £50 per person Lunch included Filling our lovely planters with earth and plants. By this time our balustrades will be up and the roof garden will be taking shape! 

Pop up a planter 4- 8 people Monday 27th October 9:00 – 5:00 £50 per person Lunch included Joining together as a team to create planters for our roof garden used by our clients to grow vegetables for our 5* kitchen.

Helping us build a series of balustrades (ornamental fences) as part of our refurbishment work transforming our rooftop into a garden. 5 – 10 people Monday 13th October 9:00 – 5:00 £50 per person Lunch included

WANTED: Education Volunteers! We are looking for one or two volunteers to support our exciting new Tri-Borough Outdoor Learning project; assisting on preparation and delivery of our outside sessions. Plus we are looking for support with our general administrative activities in our friendly Hammersmith office. Responsibilities will include assisting monitoring Read more [...]

The Well – Beeing Garden is based in the grounds of the NHS Kentish Town Health Centre providing a space for relaxation, contemplation and education for staff, patients and the local community.  We provide free weekly workshops based on gardening skills and knowledge and are open to all. To check Read more [...]

Historic Bowring Park is Knowsley’s oldest municipal park, established when the Georgian Roby Hall estate was gifted in 1906 by Alderman WB Bowring to the people of Liverpool after the adoption of the Open Spaces Act 1906. Knowsley Council, working with our partners, has successfully passed Stage 1 of a Read more [...]

Hazlehurst Studios wants to be a MUCH greener space. Artistic Studios that want to recycle, compost and collect water, to then be used in community garden projects and generally make the world a little bit nicer. 

Tuppenny Barn Education Centre is set on an organic smallholding where we grow vegetables and fruit for sale to the local community. The Centre is the hub for community events and courses and in particular for schools as we offer a ‘fork to fork’ experience so students can pick crops from Read more [...]

Belhaven Community Garden (BCG) is a Sustaining Dunbar project to transform an area of land adjacent to Belhaven Hospital, Dunbar, into gardens where local residents, community groups, staff and patients can grow together. All areas are currently common areas and there is a real sense of community and a shared Read more [...]

We are a group of local residents and school parents based on an allotment plot in Moston, Manchester. We’ve got a community garden here with raised beds, small orchard, fruit bushes, a little pond, a big polytunnel and an outdoor classroom and we grow our 5-a-days and enjoy ourselves in the Read more [...]

A city-wide Wildlife Garden Festival that aims to help people in Glasgow to get closer to nature. From the opening ceremony on September 9 that includes a mass bike ride, through storytelling, walks, a comedy night and canoe trips to a schools closing gala in Kelvingrove Park, Glasgow’s green spaces Read more [...]

We are currently recruiting for volunteers to help out with the daily tasks of caring for the Wildlife Garden. This will include composting, habitat management (including coppicing), fence making, weeding, leaf raking and species recording. Please see the website for application form. 

Sustaining Dunbar helps bring people together to start and support new initiatives which create local jobs, help people cut their fuel bills, grow more food, reduce car use, cut waste…..Initiatives which help to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels, reduce CO2 emissions and make it easier for us to cope Read more [...]

This is a new project to bring people together and share the journey to create a new orchard. As of Summer 2014 we have planted over 60 trees; Apple, Pear, Plum, Damson, Gage, Mulberry, Quince, Elder and a range of soft fruits and edible hedgerow. We are a community run and Read more [...]

The Oakshott Court Gardening Group was set up in April 2014 by a group of estate residents. On alternate Saturday mornings over the summer, residents work together to improve the appearance of the communal areas estate by building planters; planting flowers, shrubs and trees; and maintaining the external facing gardens. Read more [...]

Thanks to generous funding ecoACTIVE are helping the local community to transform two spaces on Woodbine Terrace. We can’t do it without help, so come along to help make something beautiful!

The Loughborough Farm is a community food growing project in Loughborough Junction. The Loughborough Farm aims to build up a network of growing spaces around Loughborough Junction on pieces of land that are currently derelict or underused. We produce food for local consumption and sale throughout the year. Our volunteers all Read more [...]

In partnership with local sustainability groups and Redbridge Council, this community-led project will transform this neglected space into a regenerated green edible oasis, linking in with the heritage of the area (which was once farmland which fed the local population) and demonstrating that chemical-free food can be grown anywhere by Read more [...]

Supporting people in Wingrove and New Mills to live sustainably Greening Wingrove is a community partnership project to support the people of Wingrove, Newcastle upon Tyne to live sustainably through growing, recycling and saving energy – helped by BIG Lottery’s Communities Living Sustainably Fund. The partners in the BIG Lottery’s Read more [...]

London Wildlife Trust and London Borough of Camden are working to open Baynes Street Canalside Garden to the public from early 2015 onward with the support of The Mayor’s Pocket Parks scheme.  The garden is a haven for nature and a great place to enjoy the wildlife of the Regent’s Read more [...]

We are an informal network / collection of people who live across 3 estates in Lower Clapton, Hackney. The 3 estates are: Clapton Park, Mill Fields and Nye Bevan. We have a community website, which is just starting up and a facebook page: Clapton Park Green Fingers. There are 45 growing Read more [...]

Dominic Drive is a cul de sac comprising 4 blocks of flats. The Community Garden project started in April 2014, encouraged by the setting up of 4 raised planters, 3 compost bins and several bird boxes by Trident Housing Association as part of their Go Green Scheme. This year we planted several Read more [...]