Bringing back nature
Daily contact with nature is linked to less stress, better mood and better health. People want healthier and greener streets but they often lack the time or skills to maintain new planting.
That’s where a Postcode Gardener can help, employed to green up streets in one postcode area and bring neighbours together.
Our Postcode Gardeners are working where they're needed most
We've identified new areas that would really benefit from some street gardening, by mapping out places that lack green space and are most at risk of air pollution, flooding and urban heating.
In partnership with The Co-operative Bank, we're funding Postcode Gardeners in communities in these areas, to green up their spaces in the way they want. They'll bring communities together to bring back nature to 1,000 spaces across the country.
What does a Postcode Gardener do?
Postcode Gardeners are experts at getting people outdoors, socialising and working together. They help grow plants for flowers, food and wildlife along streets, in front gardens and anywhere else people can enjoy them.
They co-ordinate the plan for the postcode, do some gardening themselves and give volunteers gardening skills so that everyone can dig in and create greener streets.
Read an interview with Harriet, the Postcode Gardener in Barton Hill Bristol, in Friends of the Earth's magazine to find out more.
Watch the launch of the West Gorton project in Manchester
Postcode Gardeners in action
Working with young people in schools and community settings — educating the next generation about growing, food and biodiversity.
Planting with local people in public spaces and streets, including vegetables and herbs for communities to take — making your area cleaner and greener.
Running workshops with community groups and exchanging gardening and food knowledge across different cultures — connecting communities through nature and story.
Corporate volunteering
Interested in corporate volunteering with our delivery partners? Postcode Gardener corporate volunteering days are the perfect way to combine hands-on team building with environmental impact. Your organisation can help green a community space while also achieving your corporate targets.
Simply contact your local Postcode Gardener project and they’ll work to find an activity that suits your team and budget.
The Co-operative Bank
Protecting the natural world has been at the heart of The Co-operative Bank’s unique, customer-led Ethical Policy for over 30 years, driven by their customers’ concerns for biodiversity and the environment.
Through our partnership, we're putting Postcode Gardeners into the most nature deprived neighbourhoods, to bring back nature and bring communities together.
