Our Impact To Date

We have led several green improvement projects over the years, raising over £400k and to date has been delivered pro-bono. A small selection of images from these projects below and a summary Impact Report can be read here.

A New Project

We are now working towards increasing our capacity as a social enterprise to do more at the local level.

We are commencing a new project this Spring – To Revive the Baring Road Allotments and save it from further dereliction – bringing the site back into productive use. Please visit our fundraising page.

Other Projects We’ve Delivered

We helped raise funds and delivered a number of habitat improvements in the Ringway Woodland Garden, including:

• Adding a new pond and swale, helping to reduce stormwater runoff and create a water habitat.
• Added new trees and saplings to improve the biodiversity of the woodland, and carried out enhancements to help rejuvinate the woodland environment.
• Created glades and increased ground and shrub layer to increase biodiversity.
• Created a new Camp Nesbit space to support community gathering.

Our founding member Kay, led the transformation of a wasteland into a community pocket garden in Crofton Park. A partnership agreement with Govia Thameslink Rail was put in place and the Crofton Park Railway Garden finally came to be in June 2019. Kay helped raise the funds and put forward a vision to transform the site for community benefit. Adjacent to Crofton Park Railway, the garden is now open 6 days a week, providing a key local green space for local residents. Kay is still involved in the running of the garden, along with a dedicated team of committee volunteers. Recently Kay helped with raising funds to improve the space for wildlife and children, including installing a Bug Wall for them to explore, adding a mini pond, and bog planter.

In 2019 we helped raise funds, working alongside the council, to help improve the Reigate Road green space. A new wildflower meadow was planted, which over the summer months provides a beautiful display or grasses and wildflowers which children love to explore.

We led the vision for creating the Railway Children Urban National Park, along side the community, council (LBL) and LDA Design, with the aim of formally creating a connected green corridor parkland which links the South Circular with Elmstead Woods. This project was initiated as part of the neighbourhood planning process for Grove Park. This is a longer term project and hope to continue to work with LBL towards delivering this vision, helping to protect and enhance the heritage significance of one of literature’s important cultural landscapes, which inspired Edith Nesbit to write The Railway Children and keeps the joys of train-spotting and train-waving alive till today. The masterplan report can be viewed here: Grove Park District Park Masterplan and Feasibility Study Low Res Report.