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Space
Biodiversity · Community Orchard · Tree Care · Volunteering
Brixton
A community orchard at the crossroads in Brixton, cared for by Urban Growth Learning Gardens. Weekly volunteer sessions are open to everyone.
Space
Community Gardening · Composting · Volunteering
King's Cross · WC1X 8LH
A community garden on Grays Inn Road, near King's Cross, with gardening, composting and other volunteer roles to take on. New volunteers begin with an induction.
Group
Guided Walks · Rambling
A London Ramblers group for walkers aged 40 and over, running a rolling programme of volunteer-led walks that start and end within reach of public transport. Walks are free while you try the group out.
Space
Community Gardening · Volunteering
Islington · N1 0EJ
A community garden in Islington, free to visit and open to the public daily. Two open volunteer sessions a week and a communal work day each month give you a way in beyond walking round.
Space
Food Growing · Forest Gardening · Nature Play · Volunteering
N4 2NQ
A not-for-profit community education project growing food, medicines and materials on forest-garden principles. It opens to the public twice a week, and the volunteer sessions are the way in.
Experience
Foraging · Plant Identification · Wild Food Walks
A collective of foraging teachers running a rolling programme of London wild food walks and plant identification courses. Sessions move through parks and green spaces rather than sitting in one home.
Space
Community Gardening · Composting · Food Growing · Volunteering · Woodworking
Hackney Central · E8 1BT
A community garden in Hackney Central with food-growing beds, compost sessions and an outdoor woodworking workshop. Volunteer sessions run on Saturdays.
Space
Beekeeping · Community Gardening · Food Growing · Volunteering
Peckham · SE15 6NF
A community garden on the east side of Burgess Park with a forest garden, food-growing beds, beehives, chickens and ponds. Volunteers keep it going, and new ones are always welcome.
Space
Community Gardening · Food Growing · Horticulture · Volunteering
North Maida Vale · NW6 5AR
A community garden in North Maida Vale, run through Granville Community Kitchen, where volunteers grow fruit, vegetables, flowers, herbs and medicinal plants.
Space
Agroecological Farming · Composting · Food Growing · Volunteering
Totteridge · N20 8AZ
An agroecological farm at The Totteridge Academy in Barnet, worked by community and supported volunteers. Planting, seed-saving, harvesting and composting are the ongoing tasks.
Community
Horticulture · Therapeutic Market Gardening · Volunteering · Wellbeing
Sydenham · SE26 4AB
A therapeutic market garden on a one-acre site in Sydenham, run to support people with mental ill-health through gardening and horticulture. Volunteers take a weekly session rather than drop in.
Community
Horticulture · Therapeutic Gardening · Wellbeing
Battersea · SW11
A free social and therapeutic gardening programme for adults experiencing mental ill-health, held across gardens in Battersea Park. Participants come weekly rather than once.
Space
Animal Care · City Farm · Community Gardening · Pottery · Volunteering
Haggerston · E2 8QA
A working city farm in Haggerston with farmyard animals and gardens, and a volunteering rhythm on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons. Clubs for children and teenagers run alongside, and there is drop-in pottery.
Space
Composting · Food Growing · Forest Gardening · Herb Growing · Volunteering
Hackney Wick · E9 5LA
A herb and food-growing garden in Hackney Wick, with a Herb Garden, a Big Garden and a forest-garden project. Volunteers meet on Saturday mornings.
Space
Community Gardening · Food Growing · Pond Care · Volunteering · Wildflower Gardening
Tottenham · N17
A community garden in Lordship Recreation Ground where volunteers grow vegetables, fruit and herbs, with a wildflower bed and a wildlife pond. Sessions run twice a week.
Group
Community Gardening · Green Space Maintenance · Landscaping · Volunteering
West London · W12 9HY
A weekly volunteer group run by Hammersmith Community Gardens Association, working in community gardens and green spaces across west London. You travel out together for the day and lunch is provided.
Group
Conservation Volunteering · Horticulture · Plant Propagation · Wildlife Gardening
Hampstead Heath
A Hampstead Heath charity whose volunteers propagate and tend plants in its nursery and gardens. Sessions are weekly and flexible, often held at the nursery or the Savernake Bridge garden.
Space
Community Gardening · Food Growing · Volunteering
Kew · TW9 3QB
A community garden at Kew Gardens Station, run with Energy Garden and The Kew Society. Weekly gardening sessions run on Wednesdays, 9:00–12:00.
Space
Composting · Food Growing · Market Gardening · Volunteering
Stoke Newington · N16 8NA
A small-scale working market garden at the Mildmay Community Centre in Stoke Newington, with a plant nursery, a seed bank, a composting area and a teaching space for regenerative food growing.
Space
Animal Care · City Farm · Community Gardening · Nursery · Volunteering
Isle of Dogs · E14 3HP
A city farm and park on the Isle of Dogs, with farmyard animals, gardens and a nursery, kept going with the help of volunteers. Farm and nursery volunteering runs on a weekly shift basis, alongside animal care, gardening and biodiversity roles.
Group
Apiary · Beekeeping · Beekeeping Classes
Highgate / Kenwood
A beekeeping association serving Camden, Islington, Hackney, Haringey and Westminster. It keeps a teaching apiary near Kenwood House, with further apiaries at Alexandra Palace and Highgate, and teaches through classes, lectures and practical workshops.
Space
Food Growing · Herbalism · Permaculture · Volunteering
Highgate · N6 5JF
A kitchen garden in Highgate running seasonal weekly volunteering sessions in organic permaculture food growing, led by an urban food grower and a medical herbalist. You come back weekly, and the season does the rest.
Space
Community Gardening · Volunteering · Wildlife Gardening
Covent Garden · WC2H 8DG
A community garden in central London, built and maintained by volunteers, with two volunteer gardening sessions a week. Wednesday 14.30 to 15.30, Saturday 10.00 to 14.00.
Space
Animal Care · Biodiversity · City Farm · Community Gardening · Volunteering
Spitalfields · E1 5AR
A volunteer-founded city farm on Buxton Street, running volunteering sessions every day of the week across the farmyard, gardens and biodiversity work. There is a minimum six-month commitment, so this is a place you join rather than drop into.
Community
Community Gardening · Planting · Volunteering · Wildlife Gardening
Waterloo · SE1
A volunteer gardening club in St John's Waterloo's eco-friendly churchyard garden, part of the church's Room for You community programme. It meets weekly on Wednesdays, 10am to 3pm.
Space
Animal Care · City Farm · Community Gardening · Food Growing · Volunteering
Stepney · E1 3DG
A city farm in Stepney that runs a supported Greencare gardening and animal-care volunteering group for adults. Food-growing traineeships and Sunday young volunteers run alongside it.
Space
Community Gardening · Food Growing · Volunteering
Streatham Common
A community garden on Streatham Common growing fruit and vegetables in communal beds, including a heritage fruit garden and a herb garden. Volunteers garden together twice a week.
Space
Animal Care · Beekeeping · City Farm · Food Production · Volunteering
Rotherhithe · SE16 5ET
A working city farm and education charity on the river at Rotherhithe, with animals, food production, a garden and an apiary. Free to visit every day of the week.
Community
Conservation Volunteering · Green Gym · Habitat Management · Tree Planting
The London branch of The Conservation Volunteers, running practical conservation work days, Biodiversity Action Teams and Green Gym sessions across the capital's green spaces. There is no single site: each session happens somewhere different, which is the reason to keep coming back.
Space
Food Growing · Garden Maintenance · Green Gym · Volunteering
Meridian Water · N18 2DX
A community garden at Meridian Water run by The Conservation Volunteers, with free food-growing and garden-maintenance sessions. The same days and the same hours each week — the plot rewards people who keep turning up.
Space
Animal Care · City Farm · Community Gardening · Volunteering
Vauxhall · SE11 5HS
A city farm in Vauxhall where regular volunteers support animal care and site maintenance, alongside a community garden. Entry is free, with a suggested donation of £4.
Space
Community Gardening · Food Growing · Regenerative Growing · Volunteering
Barnes · SW13 0NE
A volunteer-powered food-growing project on Barnes Common, using regenerative methods and delivering weekly harvested produce to the Richmond Foodbank Network.