Grow Wild

11/06/2026

‘Joining the Grow Wild Community Programme means we can really grow wild - it's such a fantastic opportunity to plant lots of beautiful flowers to give us all joy and support our precious biodiversity.’
- Neil, member of Wyndford Gardening Group.

Wyndford Gardening Group in North West Glasgow is using the Grow Wild Community Programme grant to enhance the growing spaces across Wyndford Housing Estate. The group will add fruit trees and plant multiple beds across the estate with wildflowers. Located on a national B-line, the project aims to strengthen biodiversity in the area while providing residents with access to growing spaces that currently have long waiting lists elsewhere.

This is one of 23 fantastic projects joining our Community Programme this year.

Watch this space! 🌱

Wyndford Gardening Group

28/05/2026

5 ways community gardens can help biodiversity!

🐸Creating habitats and wildlife corridors
🌻Protecting and conserving plant diversity
😎Helping people connect to nature
🪴Becoming places of learning
🌞Combating the impacts of climate change

Follow the link to read the full blog:

https://growwild.kew.org/blog/5-ways-community-gardens-can-help-biodiversity

📷Women's Environmental Network, London, 2023

21/05/2026

🌱 Wool weaving, wildflower superheroes, skateparks, and more ~ meet the 2026 Grow Wild Youth Grant recipients!

22 young leaders are receiving Grow Wild grants to deliver projects championing UK native plants and fungi. And their ideas are fantastic!

Follow the link to discover the chosen projects and see how, with help from local supporting organisations, they are celebrating biodiversity and connecting people to nature.

🔗https://growwild.kew.org/blog/skateparks-sphagnum-meet-2026-grow-wild-youth-grant-recipients

Image: 📷Callum's project 'Weaving Change' will deliver workshops about wool weaving, natural dyeing and embroidery to create tapestries featuring UK native plants and fungi.

Yorkshire Contemporary Kent Wildlife Trust Lancashire Wildlife Trust English Heritage Eat, Sleep, Ride Oldham Boxing and Personal Development Centre Coventry Boys and Girls Club - Club for young people Somerset Wildlife Trust Cumbria Wildlife Trust

18/05/2026

Grants available for community groups and schools to plant trees, orchards and hedgerows 🌳

14/05/2026

Have you joined the movement? 🌸🐝🌱

No Mow May is the campaign led by Plantlife: saving wild plants urging everyone to let their lawns grow wild and free! This helps wildflowers and longer grass grow, which benefits wildlife, tackles pollution, and can even help store carbon in the soil.

As well as encouraging wildflowers to grow in lawns, there are many ways you can get involved in No Mow May, even without a garden.

Find loads of resources for getting involved on the Plantlife website:

https://www.plantlife.org.uk/campaigns/nomowmay/

Approximately 97% of flower-rich meadows have been lost since the 1930s, and with them, vital food and habitat needed by wildlife. Join the movement and help reverse this!

11/05/2026

Things are blooming in Burnley! 🌻

Danny and Arron, Junior Community Gardeners at Pennine Lancashire Community Farm are leading the way in boosting biodiversity at the Burnley Eco Community Hub.

After a brilliant year creating a wildflower meadow, a stone wall planter, and a new hedgerow, the duo is diving into their next big project: creating a new pond! 🐸

Check out their interview to see how they transformed the space and discovered a love for community growing in the process.

🔗https://growwild.kew.org/blog/two-junior-gardeners-growing-wildflowers-burnley

10/05/2026

Our Senior Grow Wild Manager, Polly, was joined by other senior colleagues from Kew for a brilliant visit to Love Heaton Norris Community Garden in Stockport last week. Thanks to Chairs Maggie and Phil for having us!

Love Heaton Norris received support from the Grow Wild Community Programme in 2023 to create a shallow pond in their community wildlife garden. Great to see the space brimming with life three years on. 🌱

This recent visit formed part of looking at how community-led activity contributes to regional priorities.

Read Polly's recent blog via the link below, where she reflects upon the vital but precarious state of community growing and Grow Wild’s position working ‘between the strategy makers and the local action-takers'.

https://growwild.kew.org/blog/joining-dots-grassroots-activity-national-strategy-and-back-again

Photo credit: Love Heaton Norris

06/05/2026

At Ty Calon Community Centre in Wales, Deeside Community Trust are developing a living wetland habitat that supports nature and people. Building on the existing swale, the new bog garden full of UK native plants will support pollinators, frogs, toads, and dragonflies! A large hibernaculum using natural materials will provide habitat for amphibians, insects and small mammals.

Great to be supporting this brilliant project through the Grow Wild Community Programme.🐸🌿

We’re delighted to share that we’ve received funding from Grow Wild!

This support will help us create a new hibernaculum alongside a thriving wetland area, planted with classic UK native species that provide fantastic habitat for wildlife.


Grow Wild
Kew Gardens

06/05/2026

We are thrilled to announce the 23 new community growing projects joining the 2026 Grow Wild Community Programme!

Read about the brilliant new projects joining the programme in our announcement blog ~

🔗https://growwild.kew.org/blog/23-new-projects-transform-urban-spaces-people-and-wildlife

Each group is receiving £2000 to transform urban spaces, champion UK native plants and fungi, and connect people to nature. They're joining a growing network of community growing projects across the UK providing essential refuges for declining species and supporting pollinators.

We're also excited to be offering £500 follow-on grants to the groups that joined the Community Programme last year to continue their projects.

Images:
📷Map of approximate locations of Community Programme projects, 2025-2026.
📷Wyndford Gardening Group, Glasgow
📷Wild Green E13, London
📷Thornton & Allerton Community Association, Bradford
(Photo credits to groups)


Grounded MCR Mackintosh Community Garden Stoke in Bloom Friends of Brooklands Park We are Pollinator Pioneers C.I.C