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Come and visit Growing Forward
If you or someone you are supporting would like to know more about Growing Forward, please come to one of our drop-in sessions. Meet Carley and Vic, see the garden and chat in more detail about what we offer... These drop-in sessions are open to referrers and...
Building our therapeutic horticulture garden
We are very fortunate to be able to run our Social and Therapeutic Horticulture sessions from our garden space within the beautiful Windmill Community Gardens. The Windmill team have been incredibly generous, allowing us to use this space so that we can continue to...
The Last Photo – By CALM
Thorn, a Growing Forward volunteer, recently worked with Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM) on The Last Photo. This is an exhibition to raise awareness about suicide and how to support people who are are feeling suicidal. This extremely important and personal...
Growing Forward working with Emmanuel House
We are delighted to say that from this April we are working alongside Emmanuel House Support Centre to deliver group and one-to-one social and therapeutic horticulture sessions at their allotment site in St Ann’s in Nottingham. These sessions are for people with...
Exciting spring update!
It doesn’t seem long since we were writing our first funding applications and Carley cycled from Land’s End to John O’ Groats to raise money for our work. We have lots to share since we last posted about our plans and preparations for Growing Forward. We are delighted...
We are a GreenSpace Trusted Provider
Growing Forward is now officially a GreenSpace Trusted Provider! GreenSpace is the green social prescribing programme for Nottingham and Nottinghamshire. Green social prescribing is a way of connecting people to nature-based activities and green groups, projects and...
We are looking for a treasurer
Update: We now have a treasurer in post. Here at Growing Forward we are looking to recruit a volunteer treasurer to support us in managing our Community Interest Company finances. The role of Treasurer is to help shape Growing Forward’s strategic direction as well as...
Carley cycled from Land’s End to John o’Groats for Growing Forward!
She did it!! Our fantastic founder set off from Lands End on Tuesday 14th September and 11.5 days and 1020 miles later reached John o'Groats! Through sponsorship Carley has raised over £4,500 to help support people in Nottingham who are experiencing anxiety,...
Sponsor Carley and help us to raise funds for Growing Forward
Carley is cycling from Land’s End to John O’Groats to raise funds for Growing Forward. Money donated through this sponsorship will help us to support people in Nottingham experiencing mental ill health and loneliness. Gardening activities carried out in small groups...