The Community Garden is collaborating with The Hive, Worcester’s Public and University Library, to deliver a series of talks this autumn on a variety of topics related to our work at the garden. We hope… More
We’ve joined the Worcester Community Lottery!
Worcester Community Lottery is a weekly lottery run by Worcester City Council. When you buy a ticket for £1 you will be entered into a draw to win cash prizes up to £25,000. You can decide which cause your money goes to, and Worcester Community Garden is now on the list of causes, so we hope you will choose us!
From every £1 ticket sold, 50p will come directly to us, with the remainder going on prizes and admin.
Draws take place every Saturday. You can buy tickets for the draw as a one-off, or set up a monthly Direct Debit so that your numbers are entered into every weekly draw, for as long as you wish.
If you’d like to take part, you can go direct to our fundraising page using the QR code shown here or the button below.
In case you don’t know us – at Worcester Community Garden we use organic and no dig principles to produce our vegetables, fruit and flowers, meaning our beautiful produce is grown with zero chemicals and zero air miles. The garden includes a number of ‘small garden spaces’ designed to provide ideas and inspiration.
The garden is run entirely by volunteers, who keep returning for the friendly and welcoming atmosphere, feeling valued, the sense of community, being able to come and go as they like without pressure, sharing ideas, meeting new people, everyone on site being approachable, and being a part of something they believe in. Amongst our volunteers are people who have been referred to us from the NHS, mental health charities etc.
Worcester Community Garden is part of the Camerados movement, providing a Public Living Room once or twice a month during the summer, at which all are welcome to drop in for a cup of tea and a chat.
We raise some of our funds from plant and produce sales, but apply for grants and donations to support our larger projects. With ambitious plans each year, including our new Wildlife Garden and Flood Garden, we are always very grateful for any money raised to further develop the garden.
Please join the lottery, your donation will make a big difference! Thank you!
A very hot day for the Plant Swap!
As the days got hotter and hotter towards the end of May, we held our spring Plant Swap and Eco Fair event. The weather definitely affected the attendance, but despite this, we still recorded over 270 visitors during the event, which was fantastic.
A number of local organisations took stands at the event, talking to visitors about wildlife, sustainability and environment issues. We’re very grateful for the support of WEG, PackItIn, Worcestershire Wildlife Trust, the Swan Food Project, RSPB and the Transition Worcester Orchard Workers.
We had lots of plants to swap and purchase, so thank you to everyone who donated plants to us, and to our volunteers for all their hard work sowing, pricking out and potting on to provide plant stocks.
On such a hot day, refreshments were very important (aren’t they always?!) and these were ably provided by Lava Egyptian Street Food and Bears Great Escapes ice cream. A big shout out too to everyone who made delicious cakes and bakes for our café, these went down extremely well, as ever!
Overall, from plant and produce sales, and the café, we took over £700 on the day, a fantastic total which will go back into the garden as we continue to develop it for all to enjoy. Once again, thank you to everyone who contributed in any way to making it such a success.
Willow Weaving Workshop
Another sold-out willow weaving session was held in May, the result being six beautiful willow swallows for our attendees’ gardens!
These ever-popular workshops are run by Jo Sullivan, who offers a range of workshops through her business, Willow with Jo. They always go down really well when we hold them at the garden, so do keep a look out for future dates on our Events page and on our Social Media channels.