About Social Farms & Gardens Community Management Awards
The Social Farms & Gardens Community Management Awards (CLAS Awards) began in 2019 and are run by SF&G to acknowledge the community management of green spaces.
Green spaces include a range of vegetated land such as parks, community gardens, orchards, woodlands and hedges, informal green spaces, allotments and food growing sites, plus areas of water, including rivers, canals, lakes, ponds. Community managed spaces like these are valuable for both people and nature. They are also run by volunteers who give up their spare time for their local environment and community. The Welsh Government funded Social Farms & Gardens Community Management Award is a stepping stone to achieving a Green Flag Community Award run by Keep Wales Tidy.
To achieve this award, groups need to show that they are insured for their activities, have permission from the landowner to use the site, that they are involving the community in their decision making and working with partners such as the local authority.
Social Farms & Gardens Community Management Awardees
2027 Nominations are open:
If you know of a project that should achieve this accolade - we are now seeking nominations for the 2027 Social Farms & Gardens Community Management Awards!
Deadline Tuesday 21st July26.
Here is the nomination form in English
Dyma’r ffurflen enwebu yn Gymraeg
2026 Awardees
Watch the full awardees celebration for 2026 here
Mid/Canol watch films here
- 1. South Powys Mind (formally Brecon & District Green Minds), Cathedral Gardening Group, Powys
- 2. Ashfield Howey Enterprise Community Land Trust Ltd, Powys
- 3. Dan y Castell Community Garden Clyro Community Garden, Powys
- 4. The Parson’s Field, Tregynon Maes y Parson Community Garden, Powys
- 5. Our Tiny Veg Growers Powys
- 6 Rooted Together Coed Isaf day services
North /Gogledd watch films here
- 7. Bwyd Cymunedol Dinbych Community Food, Denbighshire
- 8. Abergele Residents Allotment Association, Conwy
- 9. Two Tunnels Gardening Group / Dau Dwnnel Grŵp Garddio, Conwy
North East Wales / Gogledd-ddwyrain Cymru watch films here
- 10. United to Assist Refugees UK and Incredible Edible Wrecsam
- 11. Wrexham Community Gardeners, Wrecsam
- 12. Holt Village, North Wales Community Gardeners, Wrexham
South west// Dde-orllewin Cymru watch films here
- 13. Cegin Hedyn CIC Community Allotment, Carmarthenshire
- 14. Hwb Cymunedol Neuadd Goffa Cei Newydd / New Quay Memorial Hall, Ceredigion
- 15. Dinefwr Orchardeers and the Dinefwr Heritage Orchard, Carmarthenshire
- 16. Llangyfelach Church Community Gardens Project, Swansea
South East Wales // De-ddwyrain Cymru watch films here
- 17. Happy Boots Horticultural Therapy, Rhondda Cynnon Taf
- 18. Rhydypenau Allotment Community Plot, Cardiff
- 19. The 'Grow Well' Grow Cardiff Project - City & South Cluster, Cardiff
2025 Awardees
> Click here to watch the full celebration film for 2025!
Click here for North Cymru Awardees' video
- Moelfre Community Garden located at Neuadd Moelfre Hall, Ynys Mon
- Safle Mynwent Eglwys in St Aelhaearn, Gwynedd
- Yr Ardd Wyllt a Choedlan Cymunedol in Penygroes, Gwynedd
- Gerddi 'Stiniog' in Ffestiniog, Gwynedd
Click here for Mid Cymru Awardees' video
- Cultivate in Newtown, Powys
- Ardd Cymuned, located at Llanfechain Church of Wales School in Powys
- Trefechan Community Garden in Aberystwyth, Ceredigion
Click here for South East Cymru Awardees' video
- Parc Seymour Playing Fields in Newport
- Heol Keir Hardie Tenants and Residents Association, Rhondda Cynon Taff
- CF61 Gardening Project at the CF61 Community Centre in Llantwit Major, Vale of Glamorgan
- Down to Zero, located on 2 sites in Rhondda Cynon Taff
Click here for South West Cymru Awardees' video
- Havergardd in Pembrokeshire
- Y Banwen Community Garden located in Canolfan Maerdy, Rhondda Cynon Taff
- The Friends of Coed Gwilym Park, in north Swansea
- YMCA Neath Community Garden, located in Pen Y Dre, in Neath
- Glynneath Golf Club in Neath Port Talbot
2024 Awardees
Click here for South East awardees' film
- Sirhowy Woodlands, Blaenau Gwent
- BronFair Allotments Association, Bridgend
- Ty Mynydd Residents Association Garden, RCT
- Rhondda Fach Community Garden, RCT
Click here for Mid Wales awardees' film
- Borth Community Garden, Ceredigion
- Llanfach Community Garden // Gardd Cymunedol Llanfach, Ceredigion
- Penglais Community Garden, Ceredigion
- Penparcau Green Space, Ceredigion
Click here for South West awardees' film
- Parc Betws, Carmarthenshire
- Cilrath Acre, Pembrokeshire
- The dig for Victory Garden, Pembrokeshire
- Friends of Llanrhidian Village Garden "Gardd y Pentref/The Village Garden", on behalf of Llanrhidian Community Hall Trust, Swansea
Click here for North awardees' film
- Beaumaris Allotment Group, Ynys Môn
- Rhandir Llanfairpwll Allotments, Ynys Môn
- Cae Crwn, Gwynedd
- Y Tir, Gwynedd
Highly Commended Groups 2024
- Brynberian Community Garden, Pembrokeshire
- Coleg Cambria Green Space and Garden, Flintshire
- Cwmgors Gardening Group, Neath-Port Talbot
- Landito Si, Ceredigion
- Oystermouth Community Orchard, Swansea
- Norton Nature Reserve and Community Garden, Swansea
- Gardd Enfys Sensory Gardens, Ceredigion
2023 Awardees
- Able Cwmbran, Torfaen County Borough
- Agri-cation CIC, Wrexham
- Ainon Baptist Church Community Garden, Cardiff
- Brynawel Therapeutic Community Gardens, RCT
- Bwyd Bendigedig y Felinheli Incredible Edibles, Gwynedd
- Antur Aelhaearn, Gwynedd
- Forgeside RFC Community Garden, Torfaen County Borough
- Gardd Gymunedol Hive Community Garden
- Llansamlet Graveyard Community Garden, Swansea
- Grow Well Riverside, Cardiff
- Growing Together, A Garden Project
- Meadow Street Community Gardens and Woodland, RCT
- Tŷ Dewi Sant Residential Home Garden, Vale of Glamorgan Council
- Wild Elements, Gwynedd
- Wildmill Youth Club
> link to first cluster of awardees
> link to second cluster of awardees
> link to third cluster of awardees
> link to fourth cluster of awardees
2022 Awardees
- Bwyd Bendigedig Rhiwlas/Incredible Edible Rhiwlas, Gwynedd
- Gardd Ffrancon - gardd a rhandiroedd cymunedol, Gwynedd
- Antur Aelhaearn Gardd Gymunedol Pontio'r Cenedlaethau, Gwynedd
- Ffrindiau Cae'r Ddôl / Friends of Cae'r Ddôl, Gwynedd
- Gardd Ffrwythau a Chnau Cymunedol/Community Fruit and Nut Garden, Cilgerran, Pembrokeshire
- Dewi’s Acre / Erw Dewi, Pembrokeshire
- Ystradgynlais Volunteer Centre Garden, Powys
- Denbigh Men’s Shed, Denbighsire
- Community Heart Productions at Bagillt Community Garden, Flintshire
- BRACE (Building Resilience Against Climate Emergency), Powys
- Pentref Tyleri, Blaenau Gwent
- Keep Creigiau Tidy, Cardiff
> link to North East Wales cluster video
> link to South West Wales cluster video
> link to South East Wales cluster video
> link to North West Wales cluster video
2021 Awardees
- Autism Life Centres, RCT
- Bangor Recovering Communities / Growing for Change, Gwynedd
- Carmel / Gardd y Coleg, Gwynedd
- Coeden Fach CIC, Swansea
- Friends of Craig Cefn Park, Swansea
- Emmaus Garden Group, Bridgend
- Global Gardens , Cardiff
- Incredible Edible Carmarthenshire, Carmarthenshire
- Bwyd Bendigedig Port/Incredible Edible Porthmadog, Gwynedd
- Llanrumney Hall Community Trust, Cardiff
- Pennard Gardening Society Wellness Garden, Swansea
- Purple Shoots / Sandfields Community Allotment, Neath / Port Talbot
- Rhandiroedd Nantporth Allotments, Gwynedd
- Welcome to Our Woods, RCT
- Youth Factor, Merthyr Tydfil
- Yr Ardd CIC, Ceredigion
2020 Awardees
- Bangor Healing Garden, Gwynedd
- Cae Bodfach, Powys
- Cilybebyll Community Growers, Swansea
- Clydach Community Garden, Swansea
- Cynon Valley Organic Adventures, RCT
- Deri Woods, Powys
- Fishponds Park, Newport
- Golgyfa Gwrdyr, Conwy
- Kilgetty Community Garden. Pembrokeshire
- Mackintosh Community Garden, Cardiff
- Outside Lives, Flintshire
- Seaview Green Space, Swansea
- Tregarth Community Allotments, Gwynedd
- Tremain's Woodland Rangers, Bridgend
- Y Plas Community Garden, Powys
2019 Awardees
- Bryn Gwalia Community Garden, Flintshire
- Common Ground, Cardiff
- Digging Deeside Connah's Quay, Flintshire
- Garth Organic, Denbighshire
- Llanfrechfa Grange Walled Garden, Torfaen
- Mayhill Washing Lake, Swansea
- Monks Wood Nash, Vale of Glamorgan
- Open Newtown, Powys Powys
- Rheola Walled Garden, Neath Port TalbotShaws Woodland, Swansea Swansea
- The Historic Hafod Walled Garden, Powys
- The Llandrindod Pomarium, Powys