Green Synergy

Green Synergy currently manages two community gardens, Hillside Garden and Ellie’s Memorial Garden as well as developing outreach urban gardening and our work supports people of all ages in the most under-served communities in Lincolnshire to improve their mental and physical wellbeing. The ward in which we are based is in the bottom 25% of all neighbourhoods in England and its health deprivation is very acute being in the worst 18% in England.

Our programmes focus on delivering community gardening and therapeutic horticulture programmes to support people in the most deprived communities in Lincolnshire to improve their mental and physical wellbeing whilst managing the green spaces in environmentally responsible ways. We offer garden design and build services supporting local communities to develop green spaces into new community garden in a sustainable and responsible manner.

We are such much more than a gardening charity with volunteering, older people warm and cool spaces activities and community engagement events to bring people together in our community gardens and spaces and to support people living in Lincolnshire to improve their mental health and wellbeing.  Green Synergy enables people to learn skills for life, for work and encourages people to care for themselves, each other and the environment whilst bringing communities together to create more life chances, quality green spaces and re-connect people to green spaces, growing and nature connectedness.

Our See How our Garden Grow’s National Lottery Community Fund Reaching Communities project continued to have positive impact in our local community and the charity reached 865 people through our wonderful series of garden events and 396 people through our Warm Spaces and coffee morning activities and 135 people through our Knit and Natter programme. The charity hosted 85 people on garden visits, undertook 58 community engagement activities and events reaching 2381 people and our social media activities created 210,134 impressions.