Community Wellbeing Projects

The 2023 Growing season has started at our allotment in Kings Norton South.
Join us to grow food, learn skills, be active out of doors and meet a group of friendly local people.

We meet every Tuesday from 1 pm to 3.30 pm
at Bells Sports Fields Allotment, Masshouse Lane, B38 9AH

For more information or to sign up contact us: Phone/text 07980 272 940
or email felipe@springtolife.org

We aim to help people engage with therapeutic social horticulture to support their mental health. We are working to make the allotment site ac ...

CAN aims to connect people to activities, services and projects happening in their community or in their city, in order to support their well-being. This is our version of Social Prescribing. We  may connect and support people to access leisure activities, refer them to services to meet their basic needs such as Food Banks and Pantries, welfare and debt advice, other mental health projects, and further services provided in the city.

The Mother Gardens project emerged out of Food Forest Brum, as a method for local food groups themselves to grow, share and receive plants. Mother Gardens may allocate nursery beds for propogation on their site, or simply dig up and share surplus plants that have spread and multiplied. Therefore any group or individual can sign up as a Mother garden regardless of the level of expertise or time available.
Plants are then shared to groups and individuals in their local areas or with other Mother gardens across t ...

Food Forest Brum
For several years we have been working with communities to create permanent food landscapes, where all people can access fresh food in their open spaces.
We provide a range of perennial edible plants free of charge to local groups in Birmingham and surrounding areas . This can range from fruit and nut trees trees, soft fruit shrubs, herbs and perennial vegetables. These will go in a range of settings such as community orchards, edible hedges, forest gardens, as well as to be planted individually or f ...

We are proud to have received this certificate from Birmingham City Council for one of the grant-funded projects we run in the community in southwest Birmingham. This enabled us to support people through our Community Anchoring Network (CAN) work in the West Heath area.