Leisure Charities That specialise in Gardening

Engaging with communities to improve their quality of life, wellbeing and skills through innovative and engaging projects which encourage people to get outdoors, be more active and develop new skills, primarily in the Yorkshire and Humber area, in such a way that they are better able to identify, and help meet, their needs. These activities aid carbon reduction through cycles and horticulture.

The Loughborough Junction Action Group works to improve the environment of Loughborough Junction area of south London and the lives of the people who live there. The group brings the community together through a variety of activities such as festivals, neighbourhood clean-up days, community gardening and food growing and arts events.

To promote for public benefit, agriculture, horticulture, rural crafts & skills by the improvement, and showing of livestock, agricultural machinery, crafts, products, methods, processes and agricultural education in particular by holding an annual show. To provide facilities in the interest of social welfare for recreation of individuals who have special needs to benefit their conditions of life.

Training and Employment Programmes City & Guilds QCF Practical Horticulture Skills,Garden Services (Social Enterprise), Horticultural Therapy,Adult Learning: Introduction to Gardening;Horticulture; Beekeeping;Herbal Medicine and others, Community Garden Centre

To promote agriculture, horticulture and forestry and to advance science and research in connection with these subjects for the benefit of the public and to promote the improvement of livestock and the prevention and eradication of disease in animals useful to man in particular in the Isle of Anglesey and other parts of Wales.

The objects of the Charity are the advancement and promotion, for the public benefit, of agriculture and horticulture.To achieve this charitable aim events are staged on topics covering Soil Enrichment and Precision Livestock Farming. It is the Charity's intention that it will develop and enhance a network of agricultural societies around England and Wales.

Greenwich Mencap works with and for people with a learning disability and their families. Our Children's services are: support with challenging behaviour, activity sessions (short breaks) and support surrounding the transition to adulthood. Our Adult services are: information, advice, advocacy, 1-1 support, travel training, job coaching, day services including handicrafts, gardening & painting.

To provide, maintain, protect, improve and equip the gardens, landscaped areas, woodlands, open spaces, playing fields and recreational amenity spaces within the Northern Roots site, advance health by promoting outdoor activities including Horticulture and Agriculture, land based activities and recreation and amateur sport. Provision of allotment facilities. Promotion of arts, history, culture.

Mayfield is a working horticultural nursery which provides training and therapy for people with mental health issues. We are working with at least 40 people at any time. The nursery is open to the public for plant and other sales, we run a market stall selling plants and produce, and we present at a number of local horticultural shows.

Activities provided for service users in recovery from drug and alcohol misuse or mental health issues include A Drop in Centre, A Listening Service, an Outreach Service, a Night Service, Supported Housing, Training and Education and various activities including Arts and Crafts, Singing, Smart Recovery, Tai Chi, Serenity, Family and Friends Support, Gardening, Creative Writing, Freedom Programme.

We provide a day care service for adults with learning disabilities in the Bedford area, offering gardening, furniture renovation, and training in independent living skills.

Gathering groups: Wine club, community choir, book clubs, toddler group, coffee club, breakfastclub,sewing clubs.Compassion projects: Homeless and vulnerable meals, Meals for new Mums, provision of baby andchildren's clothing, Women's Refuge, XLMentoring, Practical help e.g. gardening, painting anddecorating

To research, educate and promote knowledge of the Biodynamic concepts and methods initiated by Dr Rudolf Steiner for the betterment of farming, forestry and gardening.

TO PROMOTE AND PROTECT THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OF SUFFERERS OF MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS IN NORWICH AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS, INCLUDING BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE PROVISION OF COUNSELLING, COGNITIVE BEHAVIOURAL THERAPY (CBT) AND OTHER HOLISITIC THERAPIES,SUCH AS GARDENING.

A weekend and bank holiday day centre providing social day care for people living with dementia, and their carers, who reside within the boundaries of Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council.We offer a wide range of activities to suit all tastes for people who live with dementia including crafts, quizzes, bingo, games and gardening, as well as providing external entertainers such as singers.

Room to Heal is a healing community for asylum seekers and refugees who have suffered torture and gross human rights violations. It provides therapeutic support groups,individual counselling/casework, and a range of creative activities, including a Mindfulness for trauma programme, a community gardening/social project, story-telling workshops, ESOL classes and rural community building retreats.

Our charity's activities include providing classes and lectures and social programmes. We have established a children's academic program and an adult education program in Surrey. In addition, we run a number of community activities including free meals to the homeless, a free gardening service for the elderly and running and maintaining a community allotment.

To act as a horticultural society and to promote the study and practice of horticulture in all its branches and in particular, the cultivation and development of all varieties of flowers grown from bulbs and corms.

Managing a Community Centre and Gardens that provide services and facilities for the local community which includes; alternative education, training, work experience, employability hub, advice and guidance, alcohol support, counselling, horticulture, community development and kids club. We also provide facilities to a wider community to host conferences and training with the provisions of a cafe.

Providing day provision for adults with learning disabilities through the medium of horticulture,outreach garden maintenance and other community activities.

IPC promotes the social and economic inclusion of refugees, asylum seekers and marginalised communities in the North East of England. Activities include ESOL, the Resettlement Programme for Overseas Doctors, Community Football, Capacity Building, Healthy Eating and Life-style, Gardening project, Cycling Recycling, Martial Arts, Developing and Supporting Volunteers in Sport, Community Champions.

To promote the physical and mental health of residents of the boroughs of Lewisham and Bromley by providing -A community garden where horticulture is used for therapy and rehabilitation.Opportunities for training for work and educationOpportunities for artistic and creative expressionThe protection and preservation of the environment for the benefit of the public.

EDUCATIONAL AND LEISURE SERVICES, Sports, Nature, horticulture, social health and wellbeing, unemployment, disadvantaged families and disability in children and adults

Activities include: Food for all programme, nutritious take away, Credit Union, Advocacy Support, Job Search, Foodbank, Youthgroup, Pop up Ping Pong Parlour, Community Gardens, intergenerational learning, Dementia Cafe, Activities and free snacks for children and young people during school holidays, community gardening, partnership work with schools and other local groups.

The advancement of agriculture, horticulture and rural crafts for the benefit of the public by holding an annual show