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Broadway Community Gardens

Cultivating Community is excited to be starting a new partnership with Broadway Community Gardens to promote well- being through community gardening and wildlife habitat creation.

 

Broadway Community Gardens is about an acre of land, tucked between Oakfield Road, Old Nurseries and Broadway itself. It has a community growing history that is almost 125 years old and was among the earliest allotment sites in Frome. An allotment site during and after the Second World War, it fell into disuse in the 1970s and became a piece of scrubland, used only for fly-tipping and by local teenagers. Yet its underuse by humans led to a vibrant community of birds, insects and mammals making it their home. 

Broadway Community Gardens has the potential to be so much, including: 

A key part of building Frome’s food resilience in the face of increasing food insecurity. 

A growing and composting hub and learning centre with classes and workshops on how to grow food and create compost as a community. 

A quiet sanctuary for people to come and spend time in nature, and a space for mental health and wellbeing groups to meet. 

A site for forest and other schools to use for educational purposes. 

A wildlife and biodiversity haven, and part of a wildlife corridor in town. 

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So far, a third of the site has been reclaimed from the weeds but there is still many years of neglect, brambles and bind weed to clear. Plans include putting in a shelter, a disabled composting toilet and disabled accessible raised beds.

Dwarf French Bean Mistik
Scabiosa Ping Pong
Scabiosa Ping Pong

​If you have any in-kind donations or if we align with your environmental corporate social responsibility values and you would like to support our work please contact Sam to chat further.

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​Broadway Community Gardens has its own website (www.broadwaycommunitygardens.com) and social media for more information​

  • Instagram
  • Facebook

Become a volunteer:  We have regular sessions on a Wednesday and Sunday morning, these are drop or you can contact us in advance. There are a range of jobs both light gardening and heavy clearing. We also do community days when we tackle a big area to clear or do a large plant out. Follow Broadways instagram page for details of our community days .

We have been hosting a number of corporate volunteer away day: Its the perfect way to get away from your desks and get your hands dirty.  For us having a team on the site really helps us make a lot of progress towards making the site safe and accessible. We can even do you a BBQ. If you would like us to organise a bespoke away day for you please do get in touch.

Make Cultivating Community your community organisation of the year: Our fundraising goals for 2025 are high as we get the site established. We need £50k. 

  • £6k excavating/leveling and clearing the site

  • £4k installing a water standpipe 

  • £10k for disabled accessible composting toilet

  • £5k for a  shelter

  • £5k disabled accessible raised beds

  • £20k for staff costs for the first year covering site management, volunteer coordinator and income generation

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Sweetcorn Goldcrest
Musk Mallow
Courgette
Spaghetti Squash
Squash Blue Kari
Tomato Zebra
Teasel
Sweetpea Galaxy Mix
Pak Choi Red Lady
Tomato Cherrola
Tomato Zebra
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