Leisure Charities That specialise in Gardening

To secure the preservation, protection and enhancement of Greenwich Park. To promote and maintain high standards of horticulture, arboriculture, wildlife, public amenities, planning, architecture. traffic management and policing in Greenwich Park. To educate the public in the geography, history, natural history and architecture of Greenwich Park.

We provide intergenerational supported living and day services for people who have experienced trauma or are at risk of isolation. We help to rebuild lives and develop personalised plans to support independent living offering access to therapies, arts & crafts, cooking, horticulture, animal husbandry and micro enterprises to practice life skills and improve wellbeing on a tranquil smallholding.

VILLAGE HALL,VARIOUS REGULAR ACTIVITIES: COUNTRY DANCING, ART CLASSES, CHILDREN'S ACTIVITIES: PRE-SCHOOL, BALLROOM DANCING, YOGA, GARDENING CLUB, CONWY VALLEY CIVIC SOCIETY, COMMUNITY CINEMA, SHORT MAT BOWLING, FUND-RAISING EVENTS ESPECIALLY ROWEN VILLAGE GARDENS OPEN DAY,

- Support for volunteer-ran clubs and projects including a parent and toddler group, community cycle club, pop-up shop, and gardening group.- Seasonal activities programme including low-cost day trips, social events, arts and crafts.- Grants for local people and organisations who want to improve their community.- Provide community space for use by other groups.

Our trustee member organisations offer the following activities:- preschool, toddlers, brownies, dancing, lunch club, fitness sessions, art club, bowling, military modelling, annual church Christmas fair, annual village fete, pantomime group, craft club, gardening club, whist club.

Noahs Place supports adults with learning disabilities within a safe secure and nurturing environment, providing them with the opportunity to develop horticultural skills, agricultural, maintenance and woodworking skills whilst joining in with others in a variety of different activities. This we feel is a way of overcoming many of the disadvantages which people with learning disabilities face.

Providing local residents opportunities to learn or share horticultural skills. Design allows full use by wheelchair users. Free events enhance social cohesion by providing fun, education and entertainment for all age groups. Events include nature days, community lunches, celebrations of culture and free workshops. Anyone can visit the garden which is open every day of the year free of charge.

The promotion and advancement of the aesthetic education of the public, the cultivation, appreciation, study and preservation of the decorative and fine arts.

Through a series of lectures, visits and cultural activities and by promoting and running a Working Holiday for international volunteers to the Jerusalem Botanical Gardens as well as the International Horticultural Internship Scheme, the Friends of JBG have continued to support its objectives.

Organising,1. monthly open meetings with speakers on gardening and the natural environment2. day trips and occasional holidays, (usually one per year), by coach to places of interest to gardeners3. an annual horticultural show4. an annual school gardens competitionPublishing 3 gardeners' newsletters a yearMaking representations to the Parish Council re allotment issues

Activities: 1. The Advancement of Health for the Public Benefit 2. The Relief of Need for the Public Benefit by involving unemployed external placement volunteers from JobCentrePlus3. To Advance the Education of the Public in Horticulture and related skills including the practice of organic gardening. 4. The Relief of Unemployment for Benefit of the Public and rehabilitation of ex-offender

Allotment Gardening

OLDEN COMMUNITY GARDEN IS A TWO-ACRE SITE IN ISLINGTON. THE GARDEN IS RUN ON ORGANIC PRINCIPLES, AND PROVIDES A BASE FOR GARDENING-RELATED AND GENERAL ACTIVITIES. THE GARDEN IS OPEN TO KEY-HOLDING MEMBERS, AND TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC ON VOLUNTEER WORK DAYS. THE GARDEN HAS LINKS WITH LOCAL SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES TO PROVIDE ACCESS TO OPEN SPACE AND OPPORTUNITIES TO LEARN ABOUT GARDENING.

South & South East in Bloom organises an annual campaign that the councils schools commercial interests and residents of the cities towns and villages of the benefit area can enter. Awards are given for horticultural excellence with an emphasis on the environment, community conservation and recycling.

TRANSPORT FOR ELDERLY OR DISABLED TO MEDICAL APPOINTMENTS, SHOPPING ETC. SHOPPING AND PRESCRIPTION COLLECTION ON BEHALF OF CLIENTS. SOCIAL VISITING OF THE HOUSEBOUND. REFERRAL TO OTHER AGENCIES, OCCASIONAL SOCIAL EVENTS. ASSISTANCE WITH GARDENING. TELEPHONE BEFRIENDING.

We are a Shed open to all. We currently focus on Woodworking, Modelling, Crafts such as fabric work and Gardening. Although based in Fressingfield, Suffolk we encourage membership from surrounding villages too

Welfare Rights Advice Sessions (by appointment), Weight Wathchers Classes, Yoga Sessions, Pensioners Luncheon Club, Youth Club, Growing Collective, Gardening Projects, Community Events, Alzheimer's Activity Groups, Councillors Surgeries, Police Drop In, ASB Officer, Signposting, Food Distribution. All center based and some working in partnership with other voluntary groups/public sector bodies.

A Dales Agricultural, Horticultural and Industrial Show, exhibits of livestock, farm produce, etc; the event is open to the general public.

Basic humanitarian support Financial support for University students, to do self- earning projects: ( livestock?s, cultivation, farming, small business, fishing, dry fish, mobility aids for disabled people to do business.Constructing wells for drinking, cultivation, daily use for disabled and widows.Above activities mainly in Srilanka

The trustees are assisting in the treatment and care of persons suffering from poor mental health by theprovision of seeds to allow the participation in therapeutic gardening and horticulture.Principally, this will be achieved through the facilitation of1. Socially responsible seed donation2. Building an engaged and supportive community (virtual, local, national, global) and promotingpos

To encourage the cultivation and conservation, and to disseminate knowledge of the genus Cyclamen and its species forms and cultivars for the public benefit.

The charity maintains the Hall for the benefit of local organisations and individuals for a variety of activities including Preschool, Camera Club, Horticultural Society. Choir, Scouts, Beavers, Lunch Club, Art Group and Pilates classes. The Hall is available for private parties. The Committee runs regular fund-raising events e.g. travelling theatre group.

The Charity's volunteers carry out most of the management of the Botanic Garden, including gardening, plant records and woodland management. We show visitors around the Garden and arrange gardening and botanical training courses, walks and garden visits. We arrange concerts and other entertainments at the Garden and hold plants sales.

Organises horticultural shows, provides lecture programme and visits to places of interest for the members, provides horticultural advice wherever possible, supports the community of South Bucks. Our work is centred on Stoke Poges, Wexham & Fulmer.

The object of the charity is to promote agriculture and horticulture for the public benefit by holding an annual show within the Hambleton district of North Yorkshire, and in particular but not exclusively the Borrowby and Knayton areas of the district.