Partners & funding

Garden Organic is proud to work with partners across the UK to launch and manage tailored networks of growing mentors that support local communities to benefit from growing.

We particularly work with local authorities, public health directorates, local charities & trusts, commercial partners, and housing associations.

Delivering health, social, and environmental outcomes

• Please click links to see the latest partnerships in Coventry & Warwickshire, North London, South London, Norfolk, Lincolnshire, Medway, Somerset, and HMP Rye Hill. Become a partner in these areas.
• Read about Coventry University’s independent evaluation showing the impact of the Master Gardener approach

Work with the UK’s leading organic growing charity, Garden Organic

• Read about our approach to future areas
• Contact project manager, Philip Turvil
• About Master Gardener and other Garden Organic programmes

We’re very grateful for the kind support from Big Lottery Fund’s Local Food Scheme and Sheepdrove Organic Farm for pilot funding and ongoing support.

	Local Food is a £50 million programme distributing grants to a variety of food-related projects which will help make locally grown food accessible to local communities.Local Food has been developed by a consortium of organisations and is managed on their behalf by the Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts (RSWT). The Master Gardener programme is a Beacon Grant by Local Food, part of the Big Lottery Fund’s Changing Spaces programme.
	Sheepdrove Trust supports initiatives involving sustainability, biodiversity and organic farming.It was formed by the original founders of the Dorling Kindersley publishing empire, who also manage Sheepdrove Organic Farm that is renowned for great organic food, eco-friendly farming and excellent animal welfare. The farm now has its own eco conference centre, a great range of organic produce, on-site chicken processing, family butcher’s shops in London and Bristol, and home delivery across the UK.

At the forefront of the organic horticulture movement for 50 years.

Garden Organic is dedicated to promoting organic gardening in homes, communities and schools.We use innovation and inspiration to get more people growing in the most sustainable way.Garden Organic’s charitable work delivers the organic growing message through renowned projects such as the Food for Life Partnership, the Master Composter and Master Gardener networks, Sowing New Seeds, and the work of The Heritage Seed Library. To find out more or become a Garden Organic member, call 024 7630 3571 or visit our website here.

• Get involved
• Meet the team
• See our ‘Gallery of Masters’
• Our future areas