The Garden Room
The Garden Room is a community gardening project, rooted in the life of Holy Trinity Ashby.
We grow and give away flowers and food to bring joy and make people smile.
Our small-but-mighty team of volunteers grow in two locations in Ashby. One is a small secret garden behind Holy Trinity Ashby (off Kilwardby Street) and the other is a plot of raised beds down at Ashby Allotments (off Wilfred Gardens), where we have a partnership with Ashby Allotment Association.
Our growing spaces contain a mixture of annual and perennial flowers and foliage that we use to create our signature jam jar bouquets. Alongside our flowers, we grow a smaller quantity of fresh fruit and veg.
We are a growing community - and we love growing together.
We meet up when we can during the week, at one of our two growing spaces. We work together often (but not always) on Monday and Wednesday afternoons for an hour, as our availability, energy and the weather allows.
We get together to connect with others, learn new skills, get active, take notice of the world around us (we have some very friendly local robins) and to give to others.
There is no volunteer rota and no fixed regular commitment, which means people get to help when they can - not when they can't.
Some people help out in the evenings or at weekends as well, instead, as their lives and other commitments allow.
Although we are sometimes down on the plots at different times during the week, we're committed to working together on a common plan.
In addition to enjoying all the benefits that volunteering with The Garden Room gives us, many of us are grateful for a opportunity to do something that makes a difference in our local community.
Why do we do what we do?
Gardening has real benefits for wellbeing.
People say gardening is good for the soul and there is growing evidence it can help improve both physical and mental health.
In a world that desperately needs more beauty, The Garden Room gathers ordinary, extraordinary people - and helps them grow something beautiful together.
We have a lot of fun growing together, but that’s not even our favourite part.
The best bit is that, rather than keeping all this beauty to ourselves, we get to share it with others.
It's not just those of us getting our hands dirty who benefit.
It brings joy to the people who receive the flowers and food we get to give away in our community.
If you’d like to join us, talk to us. We’d love to hear from you.
e: thegardenroom@trinityashby.net
m: 07763 004944
2024 Events
We run a number of Saturday morning events through the year, including a Community Seed Swap, a Bring & Buy Plant Sale and our free Fun with Flowers workshops, where you can learn to make one of our signature jam jar bouquets to take home or give away. Find out about our next event here.
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Get involved
Want to join us? We're looking for people from our community, to help us grow flowers and food for our community. Find out more here.
Give
We're a small project and run on a shoestring budget. We have no streams of external funding in place, so we fund any resources we need to buy through plant sales and individual donations.
We need your help to help us keep growing flowers and food to share with others - and do more good things in our community.
To make a gift to The Garden Room, you can either use the green 'donate' button at the bottom of this page (for card payments), or make a bank transfer.
Please note: if you make a one-off bank transfer, or set up a regular standing order, we will receive the full amount, without transaction charges.
Bank Details:
Lloyds Bank
Sort Code:
30-92-15
Account Number:
00773716
Please use the reference
TGR
Unfortunately, without this reference The Garden Room (TGR) won’t receive your donation.
Thank you so much for any financial support you are able to give us.