Resources for setting up and running a community garden

Setting up a community garden to increase biodiversity, teach about sustainable food growing and to promote community and social wellbeing can be a major undertaking. It involves:

• practical and horticultural skills related to creating and maintaining the garden,

• social skills related to recruiting and retaining volunteers to manage the garden and

• administrative knowledge related to legal requirements such as registering as a charity, ensuring appropriate policies are in place, and having insurance.

Various national organisations have produced guidance of the steps involved in setting up and running a community garden, including identifying future goals and recording achievements. A number of such guidance documents and websites are summarised here, and see links below.