Our Projects
Here you can keep up to date with our projects and progress. These are confirmed or completed projects, and there are many more in discussion; we will keep this page regularly updated, so do check back!
Free Seeds
We were founded in Feb 2021 and immediately started our campaign to give out free wildflower seeds to kick start action.
This offer really took off!! A lot more than we expected to be honest! And so it took quite a while to get it done in time for Spring. But we managed just about.
To date, we have delivered almost 900 packs of seeds to residents throughout Wigan borough, and we hope to continue these each sowing season (Spring and Autumn) please look out for our social posts if you missed last season.
In Autumn, we also hand out hundreds of bulbs to schools and residents, including crocus, snowdrops, tulips and more.
St Anne's Community Garden
Our main space is St Anne’s Community Garden in Beech Hill, Wigan.
Initially, we worked on small areas, but now we run the main garden, with several raised beds. We tend to the small orchard, borders and greenhouse, creating a beautiful and peaceful space for everyone to enjoy.
In the garden, We have what we like to call The Honesty Shelf, where most weeks we give out seasonal free plants, produce and seeds to anyone who passes by to collect. If you follow our facebook page or Instagram you can follow our garden news.
Most recently in 2025, we are transforming a new large border at the fron to give visitors a wow factor whenthey arrive – it’s a work in progress but so far it’s going great.
We garden together here every other Wednesday and anyone is welcome to join in – you don’t need to be a gardener.
In 2021, it started when we created a small wildlife pond there. This beautiful community pond is now a perfect little haven for insects, frogs and maybe newts in time! We’re looking forward to seeing who visits.
It will also give little a mental health boost to any visitors to the garden.
Down to Earth & Groundwork
Workshops & Events
Throughout the year we host a variety of nature based workshops and events. We love bringing people together in nature!
We host these at the community garden and at other locations around the borough. We always aim to keep these sessions as low cost as possible or free. We also love working with organisations to delivery workshops on your behalf.
We are experienced in creating fun, friendly workshops for both adults or children, and people of all abilities to connect with nature and try something new.
If you’d like us to run workshop or have some ideas, please just get in touch, we’d love to help.
Chandler House
In 2024, we worked with Swan Primary Care Network at Chandler House in Poolstock, Wigan, to revamp their greenspace. We build 2 large raised beds and provided a range of plants and flowers to get them going. The staff, patients and local residents have really gone from strength to strength with this lovely space and garden together every week. Now growing all kinds of flowers, fruit and vegetables.
Atherthon Cemetary
In 2021, with the lovely folk at Friends of Atherton Cemetery, we sowed wildflower seeds at a section in unused land by the entrance to the cemetery suited to a partially shady spot. Since then, with funding from Food for Life Get Togethers in May 2022, we’ve added more herbs for the commmunity to take and a variety of flowers for pollinators.
Tots Plot
Working together with other groups, we’ve been aiming to improve the field at Tots Plots in Astley to make it more nature friendly and usable for everyone. Among a variety of other actions we worked with City of Trees to plant 500 trees.
Tyldsley
Residents who overlook a carpark in Tyldsley with a massively neglected border got in touch in 2021. Working together we’ve untaken the huge task of clearing the land, discovering some beautiful old cobbles and adding in a new border full of plants for pollinators that are drought resistant and beautiful! We’re not quite finished, but it’s a great community effort, and so far it’s already miles better.
If you have an idea for a project – whether in your garden, a community area or the backs, please get in touch. And if you would like to donate, to help us achieve more, that would be massively appreciated.
We work entirely on a non-profit basis, we just want to make our towns and urban green spaces work better for everyone.
If you’d like to see some of benefits of better green space in your neighbourhood, then head to our Get involved page.
It’s full of ideas to get started making your own wild patch, or how you can help in the community.