Helping Britain Blossom

News Saughton Park plans for free fruit… February 8, 2018 4:13 pm

Event Date: 01 Dec 2017

Residents of one of Scotland’s most densely populated residential areas are to benefit from three…

News Killingbeck community orchard comes third in… 4:06 pm Killingbeck community orchard on the Sutton estate in East Leeds has scooped a £500 prize…

News Greater Manchester Apple Day Celebration &… October 21, 2017 8:36 am TO ENTER VISIT: bit.ly/appleday17 [caption id="attachment_6397" align="alignnone""] Apple Day Greater Manchester[/caption]

News Birmingham QE Hospital celebrating their first… October 20, 2017 1:20 pm Birmingham’s QE Hospital is set for an “a-peeling” event at its first ever “Apple Day”…

News Glasgow Apple Sunday Celebration of Clyde… 1:14 pm Scotland’s heritage apple varieties will be ripe for tasting at this year’s Apple Day celebration…

News Leeds goes Bananas for Apple Day… 1:09 pm Apple juicing, toffee apples, chutneys, sausage making, longest peel competitions, craft activities… it’s all happening…

News Merton Fruit Festival: Celebrating London’s Fruit… 1:04 pm London’s lesser known heritage apple varieties will be ripe for tasting at this year’s Merton…

News Apple Pie contest in Manchester for… 1:00 pm Slice up your apples, roll out the pastry and get your pie dishes at the…

Events, News Free Guide to Celebrating Apple Day September 20, 2017 11:12 am Click Here to get your free downloadable interactive guide to Apple Day 2017 with ideas on fun activities…

News, Orchards Summit In The Orchard – Funding… August 7, 2017 3:56 pm It was crunch time on Sunday 23rd July for bunches of enthusiastic orchard folk,…

Events Summer Orchard Day – Glasgow July 19, 2017 5:42 pm

Event Date: 26 Jul 2017

Come and learn about the North Kelvin Meadow Orchard and how to care for the…

News Summit in The Orchard – Manchester 5:40 pm We're hosting our first 'Summit in the Orchard' a chance for our orchard leaders and…

News Leeds Scything Workshops in the News 5:36 pm Our Scything workshops coming up in Leeds have been featured in the Yorkshire Evening Post. "Helping…

News Alexandra Park in the News 5:30 pm The Alexandra Park orchard has been featured in the Scottish Sun. A fantastic feature celebrating…

News Work With Us January 30, 2017 1:45 pm The Orchard Project are recruiting for 2 posts based in Glasgow and Edinburgh to support…

Events, News Join us for a Wassail in… December 21, 2016 1:01 pm

Event Date: 15 Jan 2017

Helping Britain Blossom, in Partnership with The Wildlife Trusts and Heaton Mersey Village Conservation Group…

Events, News Leeds Orchards Live December 19, 2016 4:43 pm

Event Date: 14 Jan 2017

We're celebrating Leeds' growing orcharding culture at Leeds Orchards Live on 14th January, this is…

Events, News, Orchards Tree Dressing Day in Mayow Park… November 30, 2016 1:34 pm

Event Date: 04 Dec 2016

Head along to Sydenham's Mayow Park Community Orchard on Sunday 4th December for a winter orchard…

Events, News Designing a Community Orchard, Glasgow November 23, 2016 4:43 pm

Event Date: 26 Nov 2016

Saturday 26th November 10am-4pm Calton Learning & Heritage Centre, 423 London Road, Glasgow, G40 1AG…

Features, News, Orchards Sheldon Country Park, Birmingham, Apple Day… November 9, 2016 1:10 pm The Apple Day festivities at the community orchard at Sheldon Country Park were the highlight…

Features, News, Orchards A fruitful Salford community orchard pie… November 7, 2016 1:16 pm Apples were sliced, pastry was rolled and pie dishes were most certainly at the ready…

Features, News, Orchards Leed’s community orchards need You! October 30, 2016 4:13 pm We've been busy celebrating Apple Day, and Leeds community orchard culture, in many of the…

Events, News Villa Street Community Garden Apple Day October 21, 2016 5:33 pm

Event Date: 25 Oct 2016

Apple pressing, tasting, peeling and even volcano making are just some of the activities involving…

Events, News Aberfoyle Apple Day 12:53 pm

Event Date: 22 Oct 2016

Scotland’s heritage apple varieties will be ripe for tasting at the first ever Apple Day…

Events, News Sheldon Country Park, Birmingham Apple Day October 14, 2016 3:53 pm

Event Date: 26 Oct 2016

Friends of Sheldon Country Park, rangers and students from Solihull College joined us to get stuck…

Events Salford Community Orchard Pie Contest October 12, 2016 12:32 pm

Event Date: 22 Oct 2016

Saturday 22nd October, Ordsall Hall, Salford Slice up your apples, roll out the pastry and…

Events, News Celebrate Apple Day across Leeds September 29, 2016 5:52 pm If you're based in Leeds and the surrounding area you have no excuse not to…

Features, News, Orchards Come on you Reds! August 12, 2016 4:26 pm As the new football season kicks off, we’re delighted that fans of Manchester’s FC United…

Features, Orchards Collaborative Design of Alexandra Park Food… July 6, 2016 4:20 pm In March we planted the Alexandra Park Food Forest in Glasgow. With fruit and nut…

Events, News Gardeners’ World Live June 15, 2016 8:16 pm

Event Date: 16 Jun 2016

If you’ve ever wondered how to plant or restore a community orchard now is your…

Features, Orchards Is This Britain’s Longest Community Orchard? 8:31 pm With 1200 residents on the Cottingley Hall estate in Leeds, a small orchard wasn’t an…

Events A Midsummer Wassail in Greater Manchester June 13, 2016 4:55 pm

Event Date: 21 Jun 2016

Join us in Rochdale for a mid-summer wassail and the launch of Helping Britain Blossom's…

Orchard Mentors, Orchards Meet our Master Orchardists April 13, 2016 5:48 pm As spring gets going some of you will be starting to feel the blossoming of…

Features, News, Orchards Wassail! Wassail! All Over the Town! February 7, 2016 11:57 am Helping Britain Blossom have been embracing the winter weather and reviving the age-old tradition of…

Events, News Seed & Tree Festival, Glasgow January 25, 2016 4:48 pm Come along to our Seed & Tree Festival, co-hosted with Common Good Food, in Glasgow on Saturday…

Events, News Greater Manchester Wassail January 8, 2016 4:53 pm Helping Britain Blossom and the Friends of Longford Park (FOLP) will be planting a new…

News, Orchards An update from Herefordshire – Winter… December 4, 2015 6:06 pm Things have been busy for Helping Britain Blossom in Herefordshire, home to many traditional orchards.…

News Work with us in Leeds December 1, 2015 4:59 pm Are you passionate about making a positive difference in Leeds? Do you have an interest in…

News, Orchards An update from Scotland – Winter… November 19, 2015 8:19 pm Find out what Helping Britain Blossom have been getting up to in Scotland Helping Britain…

Events, News Fife, Community Orchard Training November 9, 2015 6:23 pm Are you in central Scotland and interested in learning more about community orchards? Come…

News, Orchards An update from Birmingham – Autumn… October 29, 2015 2:27 pm Find out what Helping Britain Blossom have been getting up to in Birmingham Helping Britain…

Events, News Kirkton Park, Bathgate Orchard Leader Training October 26, 2015 5:30 pm Help Britain blossom by becoming an Orchard Leader in Scotland. Would you like to learn…

News Greater Manchester Welcomes Helping Britain Blossom October 23, 2015 4:35 pm We celebrated Apple Day in style with the launch Helping Britain Blossom in Greater Manchester.…

News, Orchard Mentors Become a Master Urban Orchardist October 15, 2015 5:16 pm Want to join the cutting edge in urban fruit growing? If you’ve been inspired by…

Events, News Glasgow, Free Community Orchard Design Course August 12, 2015 1:31 pm TRAINING FULL Thanks to everyone for your interest, there are no more places remaining on…

Events, News Birmingham Orchard Leader Training July 28, 2015 12:35 pm Help Britain blossom by training to be an Orchard Leader in Birmingham. Contact Birmingham Project…

News, Orchards A New Orchard for the Orchard… June 23, 2015 10:30 am Last winter, in our first Helping Britain Blossom planting season, we helped add an extension…

Orchards Childs Hill Park Community Orchard May 19, 2015 3:52 pm Back in February, on a wintry weekend in London, a group of over twenty volunteers…

Orchards A Happy New Orchard in Happy… May 13, 2015 11:15 am A cold weekend at the end of January saw a community group in Happy Valley, Redbridge,…

Orchards Perry Moat Community Orchard planted in… March 23, 2015 5:06 pm Last weekend a new community orchard sprung up in Birmingham. We helped the Friends of Perry…

News, Orchards Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham has a… March 13, 2015 9:30 am We’ve put down roots in Birmingham as its biggest hospital, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, becomes home…

Orchards Welcome to Arnos Park Community Orchard! March 11, 2015 10:59 am In late February the Friends of Arnos Park, a group of local residents from Southgate…

News Herefordshire welcomes Helping Britain Blossom March 2, 2015 11:43 am At the end of last week, Thursday 26th February, we launched Helping Britain Blossom in our…

News Walking Orchard Visits Birmingham February 12, 2015 1:39 pm Walking Orchard Visits Birmingham to Mark New Project Set to Help Urban Communities Blossom Up to…

Features, News February is the month for Leeks… February 5, 2015 11:54 am Do you know when cucumbers come into season? What about the humble courgette? If you…

News Helping Britain Blossom continues to support… February 2, 2015 1:43 pm A wintry weekend in London didn't prevent two groups of volunteers planting community orchards with…

Events, Features Time to Wassail January 13, 2015 11:21 am Celebrate the ancient tradition this January With 73% of the nation recognising they don’t…

Recipes Spiced Apple Chutney (no cooking required!) January 21, 2015 10:50 am Chutney is a great way of using fruits from a harvest. There are plenty of…

Features What shall we grow in 2015? January 8, 2015 9:45 am Time to think about what fantastic fruit and veg you'll grow this year. January is…

News New Year’s Resolution – Volunteer More! January 5, 2015 1:52 pm With busy lives, it can be hard to find the time to volunteer. However, the…

Features Caring for fruit trees December 22, 2014 2:41 pm Fruit trees need tender loving care (TLC) just like plants. The dormant period in trees,…

News, Orchards Castlehaven Open Space Community Orchard Planted December 18, 2014 11:17 am Community Plants First Helping Britain Blossom Orchard Visitors to world renowned London hot spot Camden Town now…

News Introducing the Helping Britain Blossom Team December 8, 2014 2:39 pm We'd like to introduce you to the Helping Britain Blossom core team... Claire Morris -…

Features Everyone can be an Insect Hotelier November 24, 2014 11:11 am An insect hotel can house numerous insects and amphibians which provide benefits to their habitat.…

News A Blossoming Movement in Scotland November 12, 2014 3:25 pm In a hall in Dunblane, around 100 people of all ages and backgrounds are gazing…

Recipes Apple and Tomato Chutney November 11, 2014 10:32 am Chutney is a great way of using fruits from the harvest….. Up for a Chutney…

News Orchard Art – The Bulmer Foundation November 7, 2014 11:21 am Launched in 2011, the Orchard Art project is a partnership, managed by the Bulmer Foundation,…

News Master Urban Orchardists – Volunteering Opporunity… 10:35 am Calling community-minded orchard enthusiasts for an exciting new volunteering opportunity! Caring for an orchard is…

News ‘Say Trees!’ Real Life Orchard Roots… October 23, 2014 2:27 pm Abbey Road, Westminster Bridge and Primrose Hill were in for a surprise on National Apple…

News Now community orchard partnership will transform… October 30, 2014 4:10 pm 100 community orchards to be created across the country Up to 90,000 people will benefit…

News ‘Diversity’ star, Ashley Banjo says #GetFruity! October 23, 2014 11:37 am Britain’s Got Talent, Diversity and star of Sky One’s ‘Got To Dance’, Ashley Banjo, officially…

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