Social Farms & Gardens Members from across the UK contributed to the RHS Space to Grow Report, which launched today.
Social Farms & Gardens have been working in partnership with the Royal Horticultural Society and other national organisations that support community gardening to produce the report.
The report explores the scale and incredible impact of community gardening in the UK, the challenges facing community gardening and the potential of community gardening as a movement.
It calls for more support and funding for the sector, providing recommendations to organisations that support community gardening, national and local government, and funders to help community gardens reach their full potential.
More than 2000 community gardening groups responded to a community gardening survey in January this year, followed by in depth interviews, which were used to create the report.
Several Social Farms & Gardens members were also invited to an in-person national network meeting in September to feedback on an early draft of the report and share their recommendations.
Social Farms & Gardens member organisations that contributed:
Core Landscapes https://www.farmgarden.org.uk/org/public-profile/54814
Grow73 https://www.farmgarden.org.uk/org/public-profile/59892
Grow Cardiff https://www.growcardiff.org/
Ligoniel Improvement Association https://www.farmgarden.org.uk/org/public-profile/82403
Oasis (Nottinghamshire) https://www.farmgarden.org.uk/org/public-profile/45041
The report will also be used to create an action plan to support and build on the community gardening movement early next year.
Read the report here, or find out more here: https://www.rhs.org.uk/get-involved/community-gardening/spacetogrow
