Your Environment

Opportunities to improve your local environment through volunteer activities. Articles cover conservation projects, community gardens, carbon reduction, and creative environmental initiatives.

Community Allotments: How to Help

Get involved with your neighbours growing fresh food through community allotments, whether you're starting from scratch or reviving an old plot.

Getting Involved in Conservation Work

Volunteer for conservation work to help protect nature, stay active outdoors and pick up new skills across parks, woodlands and reserves.

Helping in Community Gardens

Volunteers can help transform neighbourhoods by getting involved in community gardens across the UK, from tiny urban plots to larger green spaces.

Helping Your Community Cut Carbon Emissions

Simple ways your community can cut carbon emissions and create a healthier place to live.

How to Support City Farms

Get your hands dirty at a city farm and help bring rural life to urban communities while working with animals and growing fresh food.

Inside Community Theatre

Community theatre gives everyone a chance to perform, create, or work backstage on shows that matter to their neighbourhood.

Litter Patrol: How to Keep Your Community Tidy

Take action against litter in your neighborhood and boost community pride while reducing vandalism and crime in your area.

What Are the 2050 Targets?

Governments worldwide have pledged to cut carbon emissions by 80% by 2050, here's what that means and how your community fits in.

What Is Guerrilla Gardening?

Guerrilla gardening transforms neglected public spaces into green areas, either secretly at night or with community support during the day.