Applying for an allotment

While you wait for an allotment you might be interested in the following:

Thrive Therapeutic Gardening Community

Thrive Therapeutic Gardening Community seek volunteer gardeners to help them in Battersea Park. Volunteer work days are usually Wednesday and Friday and some weekends.

Contact Sue Stewart 7720 2212 Mondays-Wednesdays.

Garden Partners

Age Concern Wandsworth runs a garden-share scheme, Garden Partners, which links older people who need help to maintain their gardens with volunteer gardeners. The garden partners share the space to grow flowers, fruit and vegetables.

Visit http://www.ageconcernwandsworth.org.uk/ for more information. Telephone Sarah Jackson 8877 8946 or email sarahj@acwandsworth.org.uk

Food Up Front

Food Up Front helps people to grow food in unused outdoor space. Visit www.foodupfront.org

School gardening clubs

A school gardening club might have been set up at your local school; if so teachers might appreciate volunteers with time to help during term time and school holidays. 

Telephone 8871 6441 or ask at your local school.

Wandsworth Voluntary Services

Wandsworth Voluntary Services Development Agency works with voluntary groups and sometimes has opportunities for gardening. To register phone 8870 4319 or visit www.wvsda.org.uk