Alive’s Community Gardening sessions benefit hugely from the support of others in the community.
Discover how you can volunteer your time, donate gardening materials, or raise much-needed funding to help support our important work.
Supporting Our Community Gardening
From dementia-friendly allotments to communal spaces and hospital gardens, our gardening work relies on generous support from our community.
Discover more about our community gardens and projects here.
Find out ways to support us below.
Volunteering
For Individuals:
All of our sessions are supported by trained volunteers, without whom these sessions would be far less rewarding for participants. Contact us to find out about volunteering or see our volunteering opportunities – even if you would only be able to attend occasionally we’d love to hear from you!
Volunteering in these sessions supports people to continue to engage with their community and gardening, no matter their age, health, mobility or prior experience. Find out more here.
Corporate Volunteering:
We have many varied opportunities for corporate volunteering days. Many of which involve large groups helping with the overhaul of our community gardening spaces.
Sponsoring of parts of our dementia-friendly allotments or donating to these projects is another way for your business to support us if you are not able to provide volunteers at this time. Find out more here.
Donations & Fundraising
All of our gardens run on a very small budget. If you have any hand tools or other gardening equipment that you are no longer using we would love to put it to good use.
If you’d like to donate to our gardening sessions’ running costs, and by so doing support some of the more vulnerable people in our communities, please consider doing so using the buttons below.
Alive also encourages people to fundraise for the charity. When we were BBC Radio Bristol’s charity of the year, enough funds were raised to run free sessions in care homes for residents who benefitted hugely from the engaging, meaningful activities we facilitated.
Find out more about fundraising for Alive here.
If you have any questions, please contact us on 07861 385 543 or email us at communitygardening@aliveactivities.org.