ABOUT US

We are Project Grow CIC - a community urban food + farming collective. We design, build and run urban food-based spaces as Social and Therapeutic Horticulture practitioners. We create safe, supportive environments that connect people through food, health and community wellbeing and change urban food systems for the better.

As a not-for-profit Community Interest Company (CIC), we grow food + plug plants for our community, we run social & therapeutic horticulture (STH) sessions, run campaigns, develop practical learning resources, and have created social enterprise initiatives including Social Source and Gloucester Soup.

Alongside this, we offer services as consultants to design and deliver community gardens, festival installations, school growing spaces and pop-up environments—creating welcoming, interactive spaces where people can come together through food, nature and shared experience.

You can find us every Tuesdays & Fridays at our main hub at the Gloucestershire Heritage Hub, Clarence Row Alvin St, Gloucester GL1 3DW.

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#letsgrowglos

A twelve-month city-wide campaign launching 1st July designed to mobilise Gloucester residents, community organisations, schools, and businesses to grow, share, and celebrate food.

The campaign includes monthly themed resources, community events, online community groups, grow a long's, citizen science experiments, an interactive growing map of Gloucester, published data report and much more...…..

RESOURCES

Download our 2026 growing guide

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The Potting Shed

A new community plant nursery & events space re-establishing the historic site of Wheeler’s Nursery at the Gloucestershire Heritage Hub. Selling seasonal plug plants so that you can grow your own herbs, vegetables and flowers at home.

Open from 10am every Tuesday, Friday & the third Saturday of every month.

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Social and Therapeutic Horticulture (STH)

We grow food, build skills, and connect people through our structured Social and Therapeutic Horticulture workshops held at our main site:- the Gloucestershire Heritage Hub, Gloucester. Our community garden site has full infrastructure including parking, disabled access, toilets, kitchen facilities, lockers and indoor or outdoor-covered areas for all weathers.

We offer a FREE public session every Tuesday morning from 10am to 1pm (donations welcome) as well as commissioned programs of 6–8 week structured therapeutic horticulture sessions, designed for referral from social prescribing link workers, primary care networks, and adult social care.

Each session includes: purposeful growing activity (sowing, planting, harvesting), peer connection and gentle facilitation, reflective and sensory elements, clear session plans and safeguarding protocols and wellbeing outcome tracking (Warwick-Edinburgh scale).

Our programme is suited to people experiencing: mild to moderate anxiety or depression, social isolation or loneliness, low confidence or loss of purpose, recovery (mental health, substance misuse) and long-term conditions benefiting from activity.

All of our staff are qualified Social and Therapeutic Horticulture Practitioners through Thrive Charity. As well as this, Project Grow operates a safeguarding policy in line with current legislation. All session leads hold an enhanced DBS check. Public liability insurance is in place. Full documentation available on request.

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Social Source

In collaboration with Wiggly Charity we grow all the ingredients that make up Social Source. Every jar serves up real social change with all profits used to empower and upskill vulnerable and marginalised people through our growing projects and cookery courses.

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SERVICES

For a better food system

As well as growing community food our team offer the following services. For more information please email us at hello@weareprojectgrow.com

Cheltenham Science Festival Installation

DESIGN & BUILD

We have backgrounds in garden design, permaculture, system design and horticulture. We have a strong track record of designing gardens for the public and private sector as well as festival events including last years Cheltenham Science Festival.

SERVICES

COLLABS

We grow community food as well as develop and deliver collaborative projects that connect food, growing, and community — working with partners to shape ideas, secure funding, and bring creative, place-based projects to life.

COMMUNITY

Active Gloucestershire Corporate Away Day

CORPORATE DAYS

We facilitate team building days, wellbeing workshops, and corporate social responsibility (CSR) opportunities for organisations within our gardens.

Bespoke packages can be designed to suit your organisations needs.

CORPORATE

Glos Soup

We aim to nourish our community with soups made from locally grown, sourced or produced ingredients that foster social connection, fund social change and reduce food waste.

Gloucester Soup is a social impact collaboration run by We Cultivate with partners Project Grow & Community Roots, supported by Nourishing Gloucester, and funded by Gloucester City Council.

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