FROM SMALL BEGINNINGS
About Manor Park Community Garden
Manor Park Community Garden was first established by residents in 2012. It was transformed into its current incarnation in 2020 when a group of locals successfully bid for a Community Assembly Grant to re-invigorate the garden and by so doing give it a new lease of life by creating an inclusive beautiful outdoor space in which people can feel safe, explore and discover nature and encourage people to mix outside their immediate friendship circles.
Our vision
The emphasis has been to create an edible garden with fruit trees, berry bushes, herbs, vegetables and some herbaceous flowers. It also aims to be a social focal point where people can arrange to meet friends, run workshops or simply pop in for a moment of peace.
Manor Park Community Garden was founded on an ethos of inclusion and creating an edible garden, a green space to facilitate community interaction. The £20,000 of capital funding made a massive difference and enabled the space to be completely overhauled, a contaminated soil test to be commissioned, large raised beds to be constructed, soil, plants, pergola and a green-house purchased.
A greener future
The project to rejuvenate Manor Park Community Garden is one big step towards making Manor Park greener with the hope that it will have a ripple effect on the area as a whole.
If you would like more information before your visit, please email e12garden@gmail.com
A place for all
A peaceful space for any local resident or those that work in the area to use for rest.
A retreat for those who live locally and may not have a garden of their own to enjoy.
A space for residents to hone their gardening skills and empower them with the simple measures that helps to green their streets, balconies, front gardens, flowerpots.
A meeting space for all residents in Manor Park and a place that can host community enhancing activities.
A place for sharing plants, vegetables and seeds. To reuse and share, improving recycling of garden plants and materials.
A space to positive impact the air quality in the area with plenty of greening, planting and encouraging environmental improvements that everyone can help undertake.
Help us develop the garden. We need helpers like you!
Our Place makers
Some of the Construction Crew team
From August 2021- June 2022 - these guys constructed the garden you see today. Tom (far left) designed the raised beds and spent many weekends building them with Dad. Dominique (third from the left) designed the planting and sourced all the plants; Steven (tallest) was our saturday garden expert.
Some of the regular volunteers
This summer the garden has hosted a number of events and garden workshops. This picture was taken at the renewable energy workshop with UCL and KCL. Photos include several volunteers, Olwale a trustee see below (third from the top-right) and several new visitors.
