Found 79 activities
Monday 3rd November 2025
With Ley Hill Green Gym
About 5.5 miles away from your postcode
At Ley Hill Green Gym
Grow your own food and make new friends at our lovely garden opposite Holloway Hall Community Centre. We meet at Ley Hill every Monday to do some gentle gardening work and sow, grow, and enjoy tasty fresh produce. There are numerous fruit shrubs here which leads to some tasty jams and deserts in the late summer. Our sites have raised beds which are accessible and manageable. We also have a number of benches within the garden where you can enjoy your brew and listen to bird song.
Monday 3rd November 2025
With Leicester Food Growing
About 34.0 miles away from your postcode
At Abbey Pumping Station Museum Grounds
Come and join this friendly regular group, which meets weekly to do gardening at the beautiful Abbey Pumping Station. Our group grows it's own vegetables on our allotment (plenty of raised beds for those with mobility issues) and also flowers for the on site sensory "Forget-Me-Not Garden". Tea, biscuits and your chosen level of social interaction are part of our regular time each week :)
Tuesday 4th November 2025
With West Heath Green Gym
About 6.2 miles away from your postcode
At West Heath Community Centre
Join us and get outdoors in 2025! We meet at West Heath every Tuesday to do some gentle gardening work at the Community Garden here. No gardening experience is necessary as we will tell you everything you need to know. We provide tools and gloves. Please wear suitable clothes and shoes - we work outdoors for three hours in all weather conditions. This site is wheelchair accessible and consists of raised beds at various heights.
Tuesday 4th November 2025
With National Forest Volunteers
About 24.8 miles away from your postcode
At Swadlincote Woods
Join our friendly team at this urban woodland and park. Our team will be working on outdoor practical conservation activities to improve the site for both wildlife and local people. Tasks on the day will vary, but there will be something for everyone, no matter what your level of fitness. The day runs 10-3 with breaks for tea and for lunch! We are always pleased to welcome new volunteers (under 18s welcome by prior arrangement only).
Tuesday 4th November 2025
With TCV Leicester Volunteers
About 29.9 miles away from your postcode
At Leicester Forest East Park
Volunteers will be undertaking a mixture of tasks including general vegetation cut back and clear, hedge trimming and profiling, selective thinning of thorn scrub encroachment. All arisings will be repurposed into eco piles or added to existing dead hedge habitats.
Wednesday 5th November 2025
With Shenley Green Gym
About 4.8 miles away from your postcode
At Shenley Court Hall
Join us every Wednesday morning from 10-1 in our Little Kitchen Garden at Shenley Court Hall. Help us tend the produce growing in the garden, and take care of our local nature and wildlife in the wildlife garden. The garden is new so this is the perfect time to join us and help shape a brand new community garden, and support the local community. No experience necessary and all tools are provided!
Wednesday 5th November 2025
With Chatham Place Green Gym
About 5.5 miles away from your postcode
At Chatham Place
Join us every FIRST and THIRD Wednesday of the month at our Chatham Place Green Gym in Northfield. We are a friendly and welcoming group who love to grow our own food in a relaxed environment, whilst enjoying our time in the communal garden, and making new friends. No previous experience is required and all tools are provided. Chatham Place and the communal garden is fully accessible, and has on site accessible toilets. There is also space for indoor activities, which we use during bad weather to ensure we can all enjoy gardening and growing our own food all year round!
Wednesday 5th November 2025
With National Forest Volunteers
About 21.2 miles away from your postcode
At Netherseal Community Woodland
We'll be working alongside Netherseal's own volunteer group to clear the overgrown pathways through this newly planted site.
Wednesday 5th November 2025
With TCV Leicester Volunteers
About 27.7 miles away from your postcode
At Croft Quarry Nature Area
Croft Quarry Nature Trail is a popular visit for volunteers, the site has a mixture of habitats including wetland, woodland plantations with open pasture. Our main focus will be to carry out some selective thinning/coppicing of willow along the front edges of the wetland scrapes together with cutting back bramble encroachment. All cut material will be repurposed into eco piles or dead hedge habitat corridors.
Thursday 6th November 2025
With Milebrook Hall Food Growing
About 5.9 miles away from your postcode
At Milebrook Hall
Join us in the garden at Milebrrok Hall for a couple of hours of relaxed conversation and food growing. We have a greenhouse here to enable us to start the growing season off early. There are also a couple of raised beds which are readily accessible and easy to manage. This session coincides with the coffee morning too, so a warm brew is never far away. All tools and gloves etc are provided for you.