In order to support your project, here are some links that we hope you’ll find useful:
Support, education and campaigns
Here are just some of the many other organisations who provide support and education for school and community growing projects:
Free trees for schools
Organisations who provide free trees to schools (and community groups):
Community Gardening
The Co-op have a good guide to setting up a community garden on their Co-operate website
Wildflower seed, trees and native plants
Some useful sources of seed, plants and trees for your school or community growing project, including:
- wildflower seed
- wildflower plants
- other native plants (including pond plants)
- native trees and hedging plants
Books, ID charts and equipment for exploring nature
Suppliers of essential equipment for outdoor learning:
Partner organisations
Our team have had the pleasure of building a number of Trees for Cities‘ Edible Playgrounds in both Nottingham and Leicester. Other projects are in the pipeline!
Buzzing Roots are another Leicester-based community interest company whose aims complement our own. They’ve invited us to work on a number of projects in recent months at Queens Road Allotments and Mowmacre Primary School.
Green Room Gardeners is a creative gardening group led by Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) and Brightsparks Arts in partnership with Wildscapes. The project focuses on adults with experience of mental health issues. It is designed to boost health, wellbeing, self-esteem and confidence whilst enabling participants to develop horticultural skills, knowledge and experience, increase biodiversity and become ambassadors for the environment.
Based at Queens Road Allotments, the Green Room Gardeners are currently developing a new community plot for the purpose of eco-friendly food production – supported by funding from The David Cock Foundation, and Castle Ward.