Welcome to Grapes Hill Community Garden
Grapes Hill Community Garden is a small (50 metre by 12metre) community garden only a short walk from Norwich city centre. The garden is looked after by Grapes Hill Community Garden Group (GHCGG), a Registered Charity (No. 1156616).
The garden is open free of charge to the public every day from 9.00am.
Closing times: 8pm (May, June, July and August), 6pm (March, April, September, October to the end of BST), 4.30pm or dusk if earlier (End of October to the end of February).
Please feel free to pick herbs and fruit from the garden, taking just a small share and leaving some more for other people and wildlife. Do not take anything from the raised beds, as these are rented to individuals. Make sure you can identify everything you pick, as not everything in the garden is edible - and some plants (e.g. spurges, foxgloves) are poisonous!
Get Involved
Learn how to get involved in this exciting project.
Visit the garden and join the Grapes Hill Community Garden Group using our Membership Application form and apply to rent a raised bed.
Subscribe to our general mailing list to receive newsletters and invitations to new events, workshops and courses and / or our our volunteers list if you want to receive emails about volunteering with our group.
Donate
You can donate to us via the CAF (Charities Aid Foundation) website, by clicking the Donate button below or here.
To pay by bank transfer, our details are: Grapes Hill Community Garden Group, sort code 089299, a/c number 65330773.
Sponsor a Fruit Tree
You can help us by sponsoring one of our fruit trees. Full list of fruit trees and their sponsors
Business Sponsorship
2018 saw the launch of our business sponsorship scheme.
If you own or run a local business, please get in touch. In return for as little as a £50 donation a year you can use the garden to host an event to promote your business or put on a nice party for your employees.
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We’d Like to Say Thanks…
Thank you to our new business sponsors, Carnival Consulting, Jill Watkinson Sales and Marketing, Auction House East Anglia, Surface Repair Solutions, Heritage Will Writers and Loveday & Partners.
Thank you also to Rhino Greenhouses for donating and installing a new greenhouse in the community garden to help us get started on a variety of new projects this year.
We are very grateful for the help and moral support offered by a variety of people involved in the various Transition Norwich groups, Norwich Green Party, Norwich City Council, The Reindeer pub on Dereham Road, Birketts LLP, Andrew Morton QS, ASquared Architects, Business In The Community ProHelp, the East of England Co-operative Society, the John Jarrold Trust, Norfolk Community Foundation, Greater Norwich Development Partnership, Groundwork, Community Spaces, Big Lottery Fund, The Dulverton Trust, The Paul Bassham Charitable Trust, The Little Acorns Community Fund, The Shelroy Charitable Trust, The Aviva Community Fund.
Thanks to Danny for designing our logo, to Anna-Marie and Jo for photos of the Community Awareness Day, Christine Way of Inner Space for the loan of folding tables for our fundraising stalls, Voluntary Norfolk for the loan of display boards, Vanna Bartlett for designing our fundraising Christmas cards, Jeremy Bartlett for designing and updating our website and producing promotional postcards, Peter Salt for letting us display his old photographs of the Grapes Hill area, Personal Paper for waiving paper and print costs, Floranova for supplying free vegetable seeds and Norfolk County Council for a Landscape Conservation Grant which has paid for our fruit trees and a grant towards installing a sculpture in the garden. Thanks most of all to all the volunteers who over the last several years have made the garden what it is today!
Thanks also to the sponsors of our fruit trees, including Aran Services Ltd, Inanna’s Festival, Caroline & Peter Brimblecombe, Fran & Peter Ellington, Jane Sayers & Anthony Preston, Dan Mooney – J. Thompson and Eamon O’Brien, Tom & Ben Loudon, Peter O’Callaghan, Susan Lockley, Ms Stevie Walls, Carnival Consulting, Mike and Wyn Hurst.
Last but not least, thanks to the following businesses for supplying tools, plants etc. at a reduced rate: Taverham Nursery Centre, Norfolk Herbs, Reads Nursery, dd Health and Safety Supplies, Mousehold Garden Centre and The Secondhand Tool Company. We are also grateful to the East of England Cooperative Society for contributing a six month supply of 480 teabags to Grapes Hill Community Garden for use at our meetings and fundraising events.
