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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The afterschool club at Hammersmith Academy has been busy over the past few weeks. They got some new worms settled in, have been planting up lots of seedlings and most importantly planting wildflower seed bombs all across the school! Lots of new learning opportunities 🌱 #schoolgarden #hammersmith #hcga
HCGA December 2023 Newsletter🎄
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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Thank you Co-op members who have raised money to help us teach local people of all ages about healthy sustainable food growing. We were delighted to celebrate with our volunteers and local Co-op representatives, who kindly brought us our first mince pies of the season! #CoopCelebration @coopuk
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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A fun bread making session with #WECH last week. This was the first of our five week Pickles and Preserves course. The group prepared the dough and then wrapped it up warmly to take home to cook. Can`t wait to see the finished results!
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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 creative session at Miles Coverdale school making bird feeders for our feathered little friends using pine cones and repurposing a juice carton for multiple bird stands. We also made “Growing Cress Heads” in decorated cups.
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An exciting chicken update from Hammersmith Academy! The new chickens have began to lay some beautiful eggs. So there are lots more for the pupils to collect when they come down for gardening classes. #schoolgarden #schoolchickens
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!
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And finally, a big Thank You to all our supporters. Without you none of this incredible work would be possible…
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