About Us

We started Give it as Grow as 2 friends, Ali Ball and Victoria Finch, who have been working in small ways to improve the community and environment in Wigan Borough for quite some years.

Soon after we started, we met Michelle Leyland and Dawn Moorhouse who are equally passionate and driven, and so now we have a small and mighty team of 4 group members!

Ali has had previous campaign with her then 5 year old daughter, Ember, who started the #Join Ember movement, encouraging greater recycling and litter picking throughout the borough to protect wildlife. We’re so proud of Ember!

We felt 2021 was the time for big action and to once again take a bolder steps! We want to make a bigger difference, and to enable other people to make a difference.

Environmental issues are not just happening far away, they’re right here, but we have the power to do something about it. And gardening is such a easy and enjoyable way to do it! 

We’re non political and non profit, we’re a community group, led by The Community Patch CIC, which is made up of the same member.

Since 2021 we’ve evolved quite a lot, and our aims are to bring people together in nature, to increase social connection, and working together to improve spaces for people and pollinators.

We’re hoping to engage residents and community groups to start thinking more about wildlife, and how to encourage more creatures to make Wigan borough a habitat.