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.
