A little bit about us…

 

Growing Plants, Growing People, Growing Communities.

 

Hammersmith Community Gardens Association (HCGA)  is a local environmental charity set up in 1984.  We manage four community gardens in the London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham.

HCGA has a range of projects which include conservation training schemes, volunteer gardening sessions, health and wellbeing projects, environmental playschemes and environmental education in local schools.

We also assist local groups in the design, plan and management of their green spaces. We promote environmental sustainability within the borough and manage our sites to maximise biodiversity and encourage wildlife.

Check out what we’ve been up to in the community recently!

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Creative, interactive & fun hands-on cooking session, learning to make 🌶️chilli🌶️ pepper 🫑 relish. Well done to all participants and enjoy your handmade goodies!
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For the last 3 years we’ve delivered weekly gardening sessions at Melcombe Primary School.

Huge thanks to Veolia for funding our ‘Play it Cool’ project where we aim to bring more shade and biodiversity to the playground by reducing the amount of concrete. We will build new raised beds and plant them up with trees and shrubs. More to follow on this soon!
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We’ve been delivering weekly gardening for nearly 1 year now at Miles Coverdale Primary School and we thoroughly enjoy seeing the joy it brings to the pupils.
Thanks to @veolia we will now be able to purchase a another greenhouse, a small shed and a water butt!
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Happy and productive green living workshop at Paddington Library making environmentally friendly household cleaning products:
💜DIY Toilet Cleaner Tablets 🍋 🌿
💜Lavender Drawer Sachets & Moth Deterrent 🌿
💜Lavender Cream Bathroom Cleaner🌿
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For several years we’ve been delivering weekly gardening sessions with children at Sullivan Primary School in H&F. Big thank you to @veoliauk for funding a much needed garden shed to store all the tools!
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Here’s a snapshot of one of our long-standing School Gardening programmes at St Augustine’s Catholic Primary School in Hammersmith.

We are super excited to have successfully received funding for the school from @veoliauk to buy and install a new greenhouse which means we can increase our propagation output with the children!
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A little snapshot of our urban farming project @hamacad We have recently been successful in receiving more funding for the school from @veolia to install an hydroponic vegetable garden- more info on this soon!
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Watch our video of our growing project on Fisherton Estate, Westminster:

Our gardens may be teeming with wildlife, but it’s not just the birds who are tweeting!

CLICK HERE TO VIEW OUR TWITTER FEED

 

 

And finally, a big Thank You to all our supporters. Without you none of this incredible work would be possible…

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