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Who we are, what we do, who benefits?

We are a nature-rich green sanctuary, community garden and heritage site to the west of Grimsby offering volunteering opportunities, a green community hub, meeting places, educational opportunities and skills building to those living in North East Lincolnshire with social or skills challenges.

Where people and plants grow together and flourish

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Our vision

Our mission

Our values

Why support us?

To promote social inclusion and reduce social isolation by providing a welcoming space where people from our community can meet, work, learn, celebrate the seasons and make connections by volunteering, workshops, growing, education about nature and place, and attending regular events.

 

We will help our beneficiaries to build skills and resilience through skills building by working on gardening, wildlife and maintenance projects based on our 3.5-acre green space.

 

To celebrate the heritage of our site by telling the untold story of the last 100 years of its horticultural history within the village of Bradley with an aim of restoring our buildings from 1918.

 

To welcome visitors who want to come to our out of time sanctuary and enjoy a regenerative recharge in a green wellbeing space.

To foster in beneficiaries through connections to nature and each other skills and knowledge that will equip them for with climate, biodiversity, food and isolation challenges.

 

We will educate future generations by creating a safe environment for curiosity and safe engagement with the natural world.

 

We will create a focus and hub for our community from our neighbours in the surrounding areas of the Grange and Laceby Acres areas to the west of Grimsby, which are currently underserved in this regard.

 

To promote and protect biodiversity through selective rewilding and using the space to educate and celebrate the natural environment.

 

We will work with other service providers and green organisations to promote a love of local landscape and join a web of connections across the borough.

 

We will use our charitable status to raise funds to develop and maintain our 3.5-acre site for the benefit of wildlife, visitors, volunteers, children and young people, and those who are socially isolated or excluded.

In order to inspire hope for the future we need to create places where people feel inspired, empowered to take action and where they can meet like-minded people.

Growing organically

Kindness

Respect

Curiosity

Creativity

We want to build a meaningful green space and community garden where people and plants grow together and thrive, through engagement with nature and gardening. We have ambitious plans for celebrating the heritage and biodiversity of our 100-year-old site, educating future generations and putting us at the heart of a green community in this part of Grimsby to empower residents to deal with challenging times and build resilience and trusting relationships.

We want to build a meaningful green space and community garden where people and plants grow together and thrive, through engagement with nature and gardening. We have ambitious plans for celebrating the heritage and biodiversity of our 100-year-old site, educating future generations and putting us at the heart of a green community in this part of Grimsby to empower residents to deal with challenging times and build resilience and trusting relationships.

Call us:

07912 682971

Vanson Centre

(opp Bradley Pitches)

Bradley Road

Grimsby DN370AA

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