Through the city’s Strategic Energy partnership, E.ON has provided funding to Coventry City Council to create community growing spaces in the city.
The project is in partnership with E.ON, Grapevine, Garden Organic and Citizen and will create up to three new community growing spaces within some of the most green deprived parts of Coventry.
Community growing spaces are fantastic for:
- Fostering good physical and mental health
- Strengthening connections within communities
- Allowing people to grow their own fruit and veg locally and sustainably
- Creating spaces for communities to enjoy and relax in
- Creating spaces for wildlife
With our partners, we will provide training, equipment and seeds to create new community gardens. There will also be opportunities to attend free training courses delivered by Garden Organic, and we hope people and groups will join in.
For this pilot project the sites are located within areas of green deprivation where the need is greater, but in the long term, the Council would like to support the creation of community gardens in every ward of the city so that everyone has access to high quality green spaces and can grow local fruit and veg sustainably.
Stoke Heath Community Garden
Two unused plots of land on Heath Road have now been leased to new community group Growing Together Stoke Heath with plans to transform them into a community garden for local people to come together to grow and create a space for community and nature.
To get involved or find out more please get in touch with Growing Together Stoke Heath by sending them an email or visiting their Facebook page for more information.
Hillfields Garden
Hillfields Garden are a passionate group of Hillfields residents working to create a garden for all. They have already worked hard to transform some underused planting areas and are exploring transforming a local allotment site.
To find out more about what the group are up to or to get involved please get in touch with Hillfields Garden by sending them an email.
Templars Community Garden
A garden is being created on site next to Templars Primary School, where raised beds will be installed to allow the school and wider community to grow fruit and veg and create a space for wildlife. Once it is set up, the community garden will be open for all to join in.
Foleshill Community Garden
The community garden at Foleshill Community Centre was set up by volunteers and has been established for a few years. The Coventry Grows project is supporting the expansion of the garden by clearing an unused area of the site and transforming it into an additional garden space. For more information on the community garden at Foleshill Community Centre, please visit their website.
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If you would like to get involved or find out more, please get in touch via our email address.
Upcoming events
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New Coventry Community Growing sites policy
The Council is creating a new Community Growing policy to open up under-used spaces to the local community for community growing, to improve the lives of local people and support nature recovery.
Under the new policy residents will be able to apply to access disused or underused Council land for planting, growing food, wildlife gardens and other community gardening projects. Guidance will be provided for groups to help get started, including an online map of available sites, growing advice and other resources to support the sites set up.
The policy and application process is set to be published Spring 2026. If people want to register their interest in applying to access land for growing, they can do so by getting in touch and more information will be shared once the policy is in place.
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