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Case Study:

Let's Grow Preston - Healing through Horticulture

This month our featured member is Let's Grow Preston, an environmental charity based in Preston, Lancashire.

Published: 08 March 2024
6 minute read

Let’s Grow Preston runs three community gardens in Preston delivering volunteering opportunities and a range of services and support to the local community.

Emphasising health through horticulture, Let’s Grow Preston practises social therapy in horticulture and demonstrates the link between food growing and community resilience, providing space for people to connect with the soil and one another.

Let’s Grow Preston works closely with their community partners to address inequality and ensure local people have access to affordable, healthy food. In addition, they run regular workshops as well as providing horticultural community support and advice. Let’s Grow Preston work with local schools and provides children with opportunities to learn about the environment and the role of nature in health and well-being along with practical vegetable-growing skills.

Let’s Grow Preston is inspiring example of what can be achieved when people from different sectors recognise and value each other’s skills and knowledge.

When you're looking at thriving communities, I see somewhere that is safe, that people are friendly to each other and where people have full bellies, so that they make good decisions. And I see that being possible by collaborating with the food hubs by collaborating with all the other grassroots organisations.

Annie Wynn BEM
CEO, Let's Grow Preston

Let's go Preston is amazing. It is changing lives in the city. They are creating huge opportunities for these neighbourhoods to thrive, for people to come out of their homes to connect with nature and to connect with other people within their community.

Sarah Threlfall
Deputy Chief Executive, Preston City Council

Visiting Let’s Grow Preston makes me realise the importance of my work. They demonstrate that when communities are given the opportunity to transform their environment magical things can happen.

Jeff Scales
Head of Services North and Central, Locality