☀️ Join our weekly Sunday community gardening afternoons at The Plot in Downham! 🥦
🗓 Every Sunday | 🕐 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
📍 Entrance next to 1 Southview Road, BR1 5RD
🌱 Our volunteer sessions are an opportunity to get your hands in the soil, connect with nature, and build community and growing skills throughout our neighbourhoods. We’re all about sharing tips, asking questions, sparking ideas and making them happen together!
👩🌾 Whether you’re new to growing or have skills to share, there’s plenty to get involved with, and you can stay as little or as long as you like.
🍅 Volunteers help grow food that’s shared among the group and distributed to local food banks. It’s a chance to learn practical skills, meet others in the community, and contribute to a more resilient local food system.
🛠️ We provide snacks, tools, and guidance — just come dressed for the weather, and expect to get a little muddy!
Information
- Enter The Plot through the black gate next to 1 Southview Road, BR1 5RD - look for the Grow Lewisham community garden sign!
- There is an onsite compost toilet
- Refreshments provided
- Kids are very welcome but must be supervised
Access and transport
- We are close to bus routes 136, 181, 208, 320, and 336, and are a 14 minute walk from Beckenham Hill Station and 18 minute walk from Bellingham Station
- You can also travel by bicycle or Lime bike
- There is free parking on Southview Road, Oldstead Road and other surrounding streets
- If you have specific access requirements or if there’s anything we can do to better support you and your group, contact growlewishamnetwork@gmail.com
About Grow Lewisham
Grow Lewisham is a collective of local residents responding to the climate crisis and its impact on food security. We’re working to improve access to land, share knowledge and resources, and support community resilience through growing food together.
