Space to grow: realising the potential of the community gardening movement. A report by the Royal Horticultural Society October 2025

In October, the Royal Horticultural Society published Space to Grow, its report into Community Gardening in the UK. This research is based on findings involving over 2000 UK community garden groups.

The article reported that a lot of people love being part of a community garden, and that community gardens ‘demonstrate remarkable creativity and resilience, achieving a lot with very little resource’ It also found that there is a big question mark over the sustainability of many community gardening groups, with more than half of them nationally being worried about their future. The authors say this is something which needs attention from local and national government and from the National Health Service.

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