Give it a Grow Wigan

Create a Creature - Workshop
2025-08-01 13:00 - 14:00 (Europe/London) | Tyldesley Town Hall, Elliott Street, Tyldesley, M29 8EH, United Kingdom
Join Dawn from Give it a Grow Wigan for a creative, nature-inspired workshop at Tyldsley Library, where families can make their own portraits and woodland crowns using leaves, petals, sticks, and other natural materials.
This session invites children and families to create playful portraits of people or animals using foraged textures and colours, then make a nature crown to wear and take home. It’s a relaxed, imaginative workshop that brings art and the outdoors together.
A creative, nature based art session for all ages to enjoy. All materials and tools are provided.
Give it a Grow Wigan, run by The Community Patch CIC, is a local community group based in Wigan, helping people connect through nature, growing and creativity. Everyone’s welcome
Tickets are £5pp
tickets are available here

Create a Creature - Workshop
2025-07-31 15:30 - 16:30 | Atherton Library, Atherton Town Hall, Bolton Road, Atherton, M46 9JQ, United Kingdom
Join Dawn from Give it a Grow Wigan for a relaxed, hands-on workshop in Atherton Library, where families can explore their creativity using natural materials from the garden.
We’ll be making fun woodland-inspired creatures using clay, sticks, and pine cones, with a range of beautiful natural materials, ideas and guidance ready to help. You can try making one, or have a go at all three.
A creative, nature-based art session for all ages to enjoy. All materials and tools are provided.
Give it a Grow Wigan is a local community group based in Wigan, helping people connect through nature, growing and creativity. Everyone’s welcome
Tickets are £5pp
Tickets are available here

Bug Hotels - Workshop
2025-07-31 13:00 - 14:00 | Golborne Library, Tanners Lane, Golborne, Warrington, WA3 3AW
Join Victoria from Give it a Grow Wigan at Golborne Library for a hands-on workshop all about helping the tiniest creatures in our gardens. In this fun and creative session, we’ll be learning about the insects that live around us and how we can support them with simple, nature-based crafts.
Everyone will decorate and build their own mini bug hotel using recycled containers and a mix of natural materials, such as pinecones, twigs, straw, and bark.
These little shelters provide safe spaces for bugs to hide, nest, and hibernate, perfect for placing in your garden or yard. Take yours home and give the bugs a place to stay!
A creative, nature-based art session for all ages to enjoy. All materials and tools are provided.
Give it a Grow Wigan, run by The Community Patch CIC, is a local community group based in Wigan, helping people connect through nature, growing and creativity. Everyone’s welcome
Tickets are £5pp
tickets are available here

Flower Pressing Workshop
2025-07-29 18:00 - 19:00 | St Anne’s Community Garden, 152 Beech Hill Ave, Wigan, Greater Manchester, WN6 7TA, United Kingdom
Come and relax with us at our Flower Pressing Workshop at St Anne’s Community Garden on 29th July at 6pm. Get ready to learn the art of preserving beautiful blooms in a unique way.
This relaxing and creative workshop is perfect for anyone looking to add a touch of nature to their art and crafts. Explore the beautiful community garden with full guidance on selecting the right flowers and how to press for best results. It’s all beginner-friendly.
This is such a calming activity, we can’t wait to share this with you.
We then conclude the session by carefully placing your chosen flowers in the press, ready to be used for art, display, or whatever you like within 4 weeks.
It’s just £14 pp, and the cost of the ticket also includes keeping your flower press forever.
We will also be hosting a pressed flower art session later this summer, so keep checking for updates if you’d like to join us again to create your own floral design with the flowers you’ve pressed.
Please note, this event needs to be a dry day, so if it’s going to rain during the session, we will need to postpone. We will update asap.
Venue: St Anne’s Community Garden, Beech Hill Avenue, WN6 7TA
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Gardening Together Sunday Session
2025-07-27 12:00 - 15:00 | St Anne’s Community Garden, 152 Beech Hill Ave, Wigan, Greater Manchester, WN6 7TA, United Kingdom
Join us in the community garden on the last Sunday of each month for our weekend session – 12 – 3pm, for some company and gentle movement in the outdoors.
At the community garden, we tend to several raised beds, borders, a greenhouse, fruit trees, and a wildlife pond together. We grow all kinds of fruit and veg, and there is often produce or plants to take home at the end of a session.
There are always plenty of different jobs to do and things to learn. Anyone is welcome to attend – just show up, there’s no need to book, and no skills are required as all training and tools are provided.
Children and families are always welcome. We’ve got garden toys and always invite young people to join in with planting and garden jobs if they want.
Please dress for the weather – sessions always go ahead unless it’s pouring with rain. We’ll post on socials if it’s off for any reason.
The space is accessible by wheelchair.
Address
St Anne’s Community Garden, 152 Beech Hill Ave, Wigan, WN6 7TA
There’s free parking outside, and it’s accessible by bus

Introduction to Herbology
2025-07-27 12:00 - 15:00 | St Anne’s Community Garden, 152 Beech Hill Ave, Wigan, Greater Manchester, WN6 7TA, United Kingdom
As well as our regular gardening together at St Anne’s, this Sunday we have a special session; Introuction to Herbology.
This friendly, informal workshop is free of charge. If you’ve ever been curious about herbs and plants and their uses, this is for you. We’ll go through picking, preparing and creating tinctures which you can use for all kinds of health, wellbeing and medicinal purposes.
No booking necesary.
