Paradise Cooperative
Volunteer at a community garden if your bride loves nature and getting her hands (a bit) dirty.
About Paradise Cooperative
Paradise Cooperative is a charity working to connect their local community with nature, and each other, through sustainable urban growing. Founded in 2014, their aim was to find and use underdeveloped land for urban growing and community gardening.
With the help of volunteers they transformed an overgrown and derelict site into a beautiful smallholding where local people can learn and laugh together. It is an oasis of green in the middle of the city, and to everyone it is paradise.
Images courtesy of Paradise Cooperative
Why Volunteer at Paradise Cooperative?
If you want to do something in nature, love gardening, or want your hen party to bond over a wholesome activity, this is for you.
Their volunteer events are designed to promote wellbeing and provide you with an opportunity to connect with nature. You will learn new skills and make a vital contribution to the local community and natural environment.
You will support an essential income stream, allowing Paradise Cooperative to continue to invest in their Community Food Programme, education programmes and other projects providing vital connection, and access to nature for those who need it most.
What you’ll do at the garden
You’ll arrive for coffee / herbal tea from the garden and banana bread, enjoy a tour of the garden, and your briefing.
Then you’ll contribute to their Community Food Programme through tasks that can vary depending on the season and needs of the garden. Typical examples include:
Weeding / wood chipping
Sowing seeds and planting bulbs
Turning compost
Harvesting
Painting
Habitat maintenance
You’ll also do an activity that varies depending on the time of year, and is bespoke to suit the skills and interests of your group. All activities are designed to connect you with nature, provide new skills and will be supervised. Some examples include:
Making seed bombs
Print making
Willow weaving
You will be able to select an activity ahead of your hen party. You’ll end the day with s’mores cooked over the campfire with time to reflect on the day’s achievements and take photos.
Contact & Details
Website
Location
Dobbins Field, Wandsworth - South West London
Getting There
The nearest postcode is SW18 3HT, which will take you to Alma Terrace. Turn away from the County Arms pub and walk up the road – our entrance is on the right by the iron gate.
The nearest train stations are:
Earlsfield (15 minute walk);
Clapham Junction (20 minute walk)
Wandsworth Common (10 minute walk).
Coming from Clapham Junction, you can get the 77 or the 219 Bus. From Earlsfield, get the 77 Bus.
