Helping Your Community Grow
We are pleased to announce the winners of Helping Your Community Grow. Thank you to everyone that took the time to enter and vote, we have been overwhelmed with the support each community group has received. We received over 50,000 votes.
Each winning community group will be supported by their local store and will receive gardening products and plants to help make their green space a little bit brighter.
The 2023 Helping Your Community Grow Winners are:
- Aberdeen - Ellon Community Allottments
- Altrincham - Together We Grow
- Andover - Portway Junior School, Andover
- Ashford - Lenham Primary School
- Atherstone - Outwoods Primary School
- Aylesbury - 1st Ivinghoe and Pitstone Beaver Scouts
- Ayr - James Hamilton Primary School Parent Council Fundraising Group
- Beaconsfield - Amersham Hospital Gardens Project - this is part of the Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
- Birtley - King Street Primary School
- Boston - Seathorne Primary Academy - Nursery
- Braehead - Southend Action Centre Community/Garden
- Brighton - Carden Primary
- Bury St Edmunds - Mid Suffolk Voluntary Organisations Forum based at Red Gables Stowmarket
- Cadnam - Youth Options
- Carlisle - Eaglesfield Primary
- Chesterfield - Holly House Special School
- Chiswick - Action for Children, Camden & Islington Short Breaks
- Cirencester - Down Ampney C of E Primary School
- Clifton - Great Eccleston Copp Primary
- Derby - Ravensdale infant and Nursery School Mickleover Derby
- Dundee - Strathmartine Primary school
- Dunfermline - South Parks Primary School Family Forum
- Edinburgh - Dalkeith Guerrilla Gardeners
- Gailey - Aldridge village partnership
- Galton - The Shed Garden, Durlston
- Gillingham - St. Helen's Church of England Primary School
- Gloucester - The Milestone Special School
- Gosforth - Coquet Trust
- Harlestone Heath - St Crispin Retirement Village
- Hare Hatch - Twyford together
- Havant - Deverell Hall pre school
- Hungerford - Preshute Primary School Association
- Huntingdon - Magpas Air Ambulance
- Inverness - SNAP (Special Needs Action Project)
- Keston - Nest Nurseries Garden Project
- Kings Lynn - Swaffham Community Garden
- Leicester - New Growth
- Lelant - St Just in Bloom
- Lisburn - Green Spaces Community Growing Project
- Liverpool - The Wonky Garden
- Livingston - Livingston Community shed
- Marple - All Saints’ C of E Primary School Gardening Club
- Milngavie - St Mary’s Nursery
- Milton Keynes - Willen Primary School
- Moreton Park - Neuro Therapy Centre
- Northampton - Growwild Outreach Projects
- Pennine - Hade Edge J,I & N School
- Perth - Perth College UHI
- Peterborough - Nassington Pocket Park
- Ponteland - Walbottle Village Primary School
- Preston - Ribbleton Avenue Infant School
- Richmond - Merton Garden Streets
- Royston - Icknield Walk First School, Royston, Hertfordshire
- Rugby - Leamington Hastings
- Sandyholm - Carnbroe Community Action for Residents
- Shenstone - Lichfield CAMHs (child and adolescent mental health team) NHS
- Shrewsbury - Myddle Primary School Gardening Club, Shrewsbury
- Southport - Mencap, Liverpool & Sefton
- Stapleton - Earl Shilton Community Allotment
- Stirling - Stirling Secondary ASD Provision at St Modan's High School
- Stockton - Yarm Primary School
- Stockbridge - YMCA Edinburgh
- Stratford Upon Avon - The Langdale Trust
- Swansea - Abbey Primary school
- Swindon - Highworth Forget Me Not Cafe
- Telford - Shifnal Millennium Sensory Garden
- Tewkesbury - Finn Academy
- Thornbury - Knapp Road Community Allotment Group
- Woodbridge - Pitstop Out of School Club
- Woodcote Green - Tollers Edible Garden
- York - Nuzzlets
We are very pleased to announce our national winner is:
Keston - Nest Nurseries Garden Project
Nest Nurseries Garden Project want to transform their outdoor space into the best possible outdoor learning experience, which will impact the children’s physical development, understanding and well-being, with Dobbies support. The space will provide the children with an area to learn outdoors, as well as developing a wild garden in part of the nursery with wild flowers, where children can identify different types of flowers and wildlife.
Community support
If you missed out this year, don’t worry, we do have further opportunities for community groups looking to brighten up their local area. Please contact your local store for more details of the community initiatives.