The Green Hub

The Green Hub A small Surrey charity supporting young people struggling with anxiety and mental health issues.

Our Green Teens programme gives teens time outdoors in nature, as well as offering support to their parents via Parent Hub. In partnership with parents, GPs, schools and youth agencies, we enable teens struggling with social anxiety, stress and overwhelm to enjoy nature, while gardening alongside and interacting with our skilled volunteers and other teenagers. Our goal is to achieve positive, meas

urable outcomes for teens’ mental wellbeing, self-love, active lifestyles, social interaction and inclusion, as well as the development and application of a range of useful life skills. Additionally, the Green Hub Project for Teens also runs wellbeing-focused talks and workshops to empower teens and to support their parents, thereby enabling us to reach a wider audience.

September can bring a whirlwind of emotions for young people - new classes, new faces, new pressures. For some, it’s exc...
06/09/2026

September can bring a whirlwind of emotions for young people - new classes, new faces, new pressures. For some, it’s exciting. For others, it can feel overwhelming.

If your child is finding things tough, we have a NEW Green Hub session starting on 16th September at Farncombe Community Garden and we still have a few spaces available.

A safe, nurturing space where young people can breathe, connect and grow - literally and figuratively.

Sometimes all it takes is the right space and the right people. We’d love to welcome them.

Please get in touch through the parent referral link our website 👉🏻 https://greenhub.org.uk/parents/parent-referral/ or via the link in our bio.

Seven colours. Seven posies. One team.This morning Green Hub staff team headed to the beautiful Hydons Flowers farm for ...
04/09/2026

Seven colours. Seven posies. One team.

This morning Green Hub staff team headed to the beautiful Hydons Flowers farm for a little team building with a difference. Each of us was given a single Green Hub colour and tasked with picking our flowers — and when we brought them all together, seven unique posies emerged.

It felt like a pretty perfect metaphor for what we do every day. Different people, different strengths, all working together towards something beautiful.

A huge thank you to the wonderful team at Hydons for such an inspiring morning and for the incredible work they do.

£13 billion. That’s what it cost Meta to finally acknowledge what many of us already knew - that their platforms were ca...
27/08/2026

£13 billion. That’s what it cost Meta to finally acknowledge what many of us already knew - that their platforms were causing real harm to children.

The landmark settlement means sweeping changes are on the way for under-18s on Facebook and Instagram: screen time limits, overnight blackouts, no notifications during school hours, and likes hidden by default.

As a charity that exists to support young people in our community, we think this is a moment worth pausing on. Not to celebrate - these protections should have existed years ago - but to acknowledge that the conversation around children’s online safety is finally being taken seriously at the highest level.

The question now is whether these changes will be enough. We’d love to know what you think — especially if you’re a parent or work with young people.

Rain? What rain?Vanessa and our brand new Events Team descended on Witley HQ today for their first run-through of our ev...
21/08/2026

Rain? What rain?

Vanessa and our brand new Events Team descended on Witley HQ today for their first run-through of our event stand - and they absolutely nailed it, despite the heavens deciding today was the perfect day to end the drought.

Special mention to Norman, who showed up and supervised proceedings with his usual quiet authority.

And speaking of the Events Team - could this be you? 🫵🏻

Our Event Volunteers are the public face of GreenHub. They’re the people who make that vital first connection with potential supporters, referrers, parents, teens and donors - opening doors and helping us run events that raise the funds that keep everything going.

If you fancy a volunteering role that makes a real difference to your local community and doesn’t require a regular commitment, we’d love to hear from you. Find out more here or in our bio 👉🏻 https://greenhub.org.uk/volunteers/key-roles/

“My sunflower is taller than yours…”When our teen volunteers returned from their summer break, they came back to quite t...
19/08/2026

“My sunflower is taller than yours…”

When our teen volunteers returned from their summer break, they came back to quite the surprise — one of the sunflowers they planted had shot up to an incredible 2.85 metres. At that rate, it won’t be long before it’s peeping above the rooftops of Milford. 😃

A huge thank you to our wonderful adult volunteers who kept every single one of our gardens watered through two weeks of sessions break and some seriously testing weather. A sterling effort — and the results speak for themselves.

Date for your diaries!🗓️ Wednesday 23rd September🕰️ 7pm to 8.30pm“Helping support your child through transitions and cha...
12/08/2026

Date for your diaries!

🗓️ Wednesday 23rd September
🕰️ 7pm to 8.30pm

“Helping support your child through transitions and change’ with Amber Pilgrim, Educational Mental Health Practitioner.

More details and how to reserve your space soon!

The Albert Hunt Trust is a UK grant-making charitable trust supporting local charities across the country, with a partic...
08/08/2026

The Albert Hunt Trust is a UK grant-making charitable trust supporting local charities across the country, with a particular focus on promoting health and wellbeing and supporting children and young people.

We are incredibly grateful for their grant to GreenHub, which is helping us continue to provide local teenagers with safe, supportive spaces to connect with nature, build confidence and take a break from the pressures of everyday life.

Thank you, The Albert Hunt Trust, for supporting our work and helping us make a difference to the young people in our community. 💚

We are extremely grateful to Project Spark for funding two of our 2026 Teen Garden cohorts, supporting 16 local young pe...
31/07/2026

We are extremely grateful to Project Spark for funding two of our 2026 Teen Garden cohorts, supporting 16 local young people over 12 weeks who are struggling with stress, anxiety or low mental wellbeing.
Project Spark is a charity that supports imaginative projects which directly benefit children and young people facing difficult or challenging circumstances, helping to make their future brighter. We’re particularly grateful that they saw the value in what we’re doing here at GreenHub and chose to support our young people.

For some teenagers, school can feel overwhelming, pressured or isolating. Our garden sessions offer something very different: a calm, supportive space where they can step away from the noise, breathe, get their hands in the soil and simply be themselves.
Through gardening, nature and time outdoors, they have the opportunity to slow down, build confidence, develop new skills and experience the sense of achievement that comes from nurturing something and watching it grow.

It might look like gardening, but the impact goes far beyond the garden. These sessions provide connection, routine and a safe space to pause and reset — helping young people feel more grounded and reminding them that they are capable of far more than they sometimes believe.
Project Spark’s support is helping us make these opportunities possible for local teenagers who really need them.

Thank you, Project Spark, for believing in what we do and investing in the young people in our community. 💚

Last week, Green Hub co-founder Vanessa, trustee Anthea, and volunteers Chris & Lianne were honoured to attend the Surre...
21/07/2026

Last week, Green Hub co-founder Vanessa, trustee Anthea, and volunteers Chris & Lianne were honoured to attend the Surrey reception for this year’s nominees for the King’s Award for Voluntary Service. 💚

We were incredibly grateful to be nominated by one of our valued partner organisations. Earlier this year, members of the Surrey Lieutenancy visited Green Hub to learn more about the impact of our volunteers. While we now have a small staff team working behind the scenes, it is our amazing volunteers who are firmly in the spotlight. They are the heart of Green Hub, supporting local teenagers every week, creating safe spaces, building connections, and making the magic happen at our Green Teens sessions. 🌿

The King’s Award for Voluntary Service is the highest honour awarded to voluntary organisations across the UK, so being recognised as one of Surrey’s nominees is already a huge achievement.

Now we wait! 🤞 We won’t find out whether we’ve received the King’s Award until His Majesty’s birthday on 14 November, but whatever the outcome, we’re incredibly proud of our volunteers and everything they do for young people and our community.

This recognition belongs to every Green Hub volunteer. Thank you for changing young lives.

📸 Pictured: The Lord-Lieutenant of Surrey, Michael More-Molyneux, meeting the Green Hub team alongside Deputy Lieutenant Bridget Biddell, and Vanessa chatting with Deputy Lieutenant and High Sheriff of Surrey, Mrs Joosje Hamilton.

We are looking for Event Volunteers – can you help? Green Hub is a truly local charity – based in Witley and serving Mil...
09/07/2026

We are looking for Event Volunteers – can you help?

Green Hub is a truly local charity – based in Witley and serving Milford, Godalming, Farncombe and beyond. We help teens with anxiety by getting them out and about in horticulture – it’s amazingly powerful and we are making a BIG difference to teenage mental health locally.

It’s been 5 years for us now and each year we just get busier and busier. Which is why we need a few more folk to help out at events, helping us to forge that vital first step in a relationship.

Sometimes it’s at weekends. Sometimes midweek. Some indoors with a ‘table & banner’ set up - others outdoors with more of a ‘gazebo and all the accoutrements’ requirement.

• You need to be a practical type, happy to muck in with setting-up, chatting to people, selling plants and cards, running the tombola. You know the sort of thing.
• We appreciate you can’t do every session, but if you could help us out 2 or 3 times a year, that would be great.
• We’ll make sure you are fully briefed for each event and understand all you need to know about us.
• And, be assured, you don’t need to be a gardening expert!

A lot of people tell us they’d like to be able to help but we absolutely understand that people are often time-poor with busy lives. Helping at events is a low-commitment option, and it could just be the small thing that you could do that would make a BIG difference to Green Hub.

If you like what we do at Green Hub and would like to help us make a difference locally, take a look at this page on the website – and fill in our simple online form. 2 mins max.

https://greenhub.org.uk/volunteers/key-roles/

It really will make a difference to the support we are able to offer local young people.

Address

Portsmouth Road
Godalming
GU85HZ

Opening Hours

10am - 12pm
2pm - 4pm

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