These sessions are open to any family registered with a children's centre in the BS2 & BS5 area.

Registration is essential and can be made directly through St Pauls Nursery & Children Centre

To book a slot please call Michaela on 07917 517 800 or email on michaela.wilcox@bristol-schools.uk.

Available session times:

• 10:00 - 11:00
• 11:30 - 12:30
• 13:30 - 14:30
• 15:00 - 16:00

Please note, due to current Covid-19 restrictions, sessions will be 1 hour long and limited to 1 family per sessions. Two families may attend the same session if already in a support bubble - with a maximum of 10 individuals per session.

These sessions have been made possible by Children In Need.

These sessions are open to any family registered with a children's centre in the BS2 & BS5 area.

Registration is essential and can be made directly through St Pauls Nursery & Children Centre.

To book a slot please call or email Michaela on 07917 517 800 or michaela.wilcox@bristol-schools.uk.

Available session times:

• 10:00 - 11:00
• 11:30 - 12:30
• 13:30 - 14:30
• 15:00 - 16:00

Please note, due to current Covid-19 restrictions, sessions will be 1 hour long and limited to 1 family per sessions. Two families may attend the same session if already in a support bubble - with a maximum of 10 individuals per session.

These sessions have been made possible by Children In Need.

In the Summer the garden welcomed local children and families for activity days. Photo @Paul Blakemore

Local children, including Tate, received activity packs during Lockdown. Photo via Twitter courtesy of Tate's Mum

"@HannahMorePri huge thanks to you and @TrinityBristol for the fantastic kit for the windowsill grow challenge! Tate really enjoyed potting them. We will keep you posted on their growth" Charlene L. Twitter

Since the Covid-19 lockdown, we have been working closely with local primary schools and Up Our Street to find ways to reach out to young people in the community who can no longer access our community garden and may have limited access to green spaces during this time.

The first batch of activity packs, filled with simple DIY windowsill gardening ideas and craft activities for families, children and carers to get busy with at home, went out in May/June 2020. Activities include sowing seeds, making bird feeders, scavenger hunts and more. A digital version of the pack is downloadable from our website.

“I think the biggest benefit is that it gives children and families who might not be able to get outside, the chance to engage in nature-based activities. Being around nature and doing tasks like planting and looking after plants are great for mental health and well-being and get children engaged in the world around them!”

Natalie Barker, Deputy Head, St Nicholas of Toletine Primary, June 2020

The garden team are also creating videos on everything from handy gardening tips to fun activities you can do at home - keep up-to-date with these on our social media channels or catch up here.

You may have seen that we're giving away free "Nature To Your Door" packs, for young people who are currently unable to visit our garden due to lockdown.

These exciting activity packs are filled with DIY windowsill garden ideas and craft activities for you and your children to get busy with at home!

Find out more about the packs here.

This project response to Covid-19 has been made possible from our funders Children in Need, Power to Change & Awards For All.

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Here is a step by step guide to making your very own birdfeeder at home. All you need is an empty toilet roll, string, some fat (lard, butter or margarine) and some birdfeed (or nuts or sugar free cereal.)

Make sure you send us pictures of the birds you see if you make your own!

Thank you BBC Children in Need for making Garden activities for children possible.

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Trinity are working with external artists, partners and organisations as part of Trinity Presents Online to provide exciting content, relevant to Trinity's diverse audiences and in line with our Equal Opportunities and Free Speech Policies. Click here for more information about our Policies. While we endeavour to ensure content we share is relevant and appropriate, Trinity is not responsible for individual content created by third parties.

Make sure you send us some photos yours!

Big thanks to BBC Children in Need for supporting the work we do with young people in our garden.

Music is provided by SG who takes part in music making project Making Tracks.

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Trinity are working with external artists, partners and organisations as part of Trinity Presents Online to provide exciting content, relevant to Trinity's diverse audiences and in line with our Equal Opportunities and Free Speech Policies. Click here for more information about our Policies. While we endeavour to ensure content we share is relevant and appropriate, Trinity is not responsible for individual content created by third parties.

Cultivating fruit trees  - just one of the many tasks in Trinity's thriving garden

After a long winter we are super happy to be welcoming back our weekly garden activities.  Wednesday's Community Day (12 - 4) is an opportunity to learn various gardening skills while enjoying the urban outdoors. The sessions are a mix of ideas and hands-on work in the thriving community garden - from helping plant seedlings in the poly-tunnel to preparing beds for growing veg, there is lots for people to enjoy. At the end of each session enjoy a shared meal with other volunteers. No need to book, just show up! All welcome, including families

Stay & Play (Fridays 10-12 up until May 25, then 10.30 - 12) is a nature based play group for 0-5 year olds, nature play, arts & crafts, story time and sing-a-longs with a ukulele! No need to book, just turn up and enjoy the garden with your little ones. Suggested donation up to £5.

For more information about garden activities contact: garden@3ca.org.uk

Hello I am Amelia and I am donating some money to the Trinity Centre in Bristol, in memory of my mum.

The Trinity Community Garden delivers gardening and cooking workshops for lots of different members of the local community, engaging over 500 people every year. My mum's legacy will pay for disabled access to be put into the garden so it can be enjoyed by even MORE people.

I have visited the garden a few times now and went to one of the workshops the other day and it is the loveliest hidden gem. The people who run the workshops are fantastic. This would have been one of the things that my mum could really have benefited from because they run workshops for people with mental health issues and social isolation. I truly think they are invaluable and I know what a huge difference these kinds of things make, especially when, unfortunately, NHS mental health services are so stretched that people slip through the net. These workshops are FREE and anyone can go and there are highly trained people running them.

Many of you will know the Trinity Centre from gigs, fireworks or their big garden party, but maybe don't know more about it. It's a place that does so much for the community and is not for profit. They can get other funding to continue running projects, but not lump sums to pay for things like accessibility. Just imagine how many more people could benefit!

You don't have to give money or anything, just 5 minutes of your time, filling out a slightly dull form (sorry!!) and voting for the Trinity Community Garden project to receive "match" funding from the Aviva Community Fund competition. This means that the money I am giving the garden has the potential to be doubled if they win!

The projects with the most votes (the top 8 in each of the 4 categories) will be entered into the Competition Finals. There, a panel of judges will decide which projects will receive funding. There are 8 awards (2 in each category) for up to £25K.

Click here to vote now! Voting closes on Tuesday 21st November

For those of you who knew my mum will know that she LOVED gardening - to the extent that I would grump aged 5 "Mummy, you love your garden more than ME". She would have loved this place so much and could have benefited from it so much. We NEED more places like this in our community :)

On Monday 26^th June the Trinity Community Garden hosted Coutts Bank Bristol regional office “Corporate Volunteering Day”, led by Leigh Dodsworth. 11 enthusiastic participants - a few of whom travelled down from London - took this sunny day out of the office to help us with general gardening tasks and light maintenance in the garden, including: weeding and clearing the garden, playground and boarders around the grounds; as well as levelling the floor of our shelter area.

Anita O’Flynn, Garden Coordinator, had a list of tasks the size of her arm, so the day took a bit of management to get everyone on task, tooled up and happy with what they were doing.

2016-2017 has been a busy and successful year with the Trinity Community Garden hosting six main free and open activities, where people can join us - whatever the weather – to learn garden skills, enjoy the outdoors, meet new people and share some lovely food together! We have directly engaged a total of 627 people through weekly and monthly sessions, from tailored therapeutic gardening and cooking activities for adults with mental health issues to nature, play and craft session for under 5’s and school children over half terms and Summer.

Check out our What’s On for current gardening activities.

We have had real success and impact for our community so far, however we want to continue to improve and grow and we can only do this with your support. It costs us approx £1,500 a month to sustain our regular activities and there is so much to improve in our Garden, in terms of making the space accessible for all.

Corporate team-building sessions cost as little as £250+VAT to cover costs of a facilitator and materials to help resource your day - taking part in work that will provide a lasting legacy for the communities of Bristol...read more here.

Children's Adventures in Nature

Mon, Wed & Thu from 27 Jul to 31 Aug, 2pm-4pm

Children aged 6-12 can join the fun at the Trinity Community Garden, where they can connect with nature through all weather activities, like forest school, bushcraft and play. Free  - suggested donation £5. Contact Lisa: lisat@3ca.org.uk / 07791 140 916

Outdoor Adventure Youth Group

Mondays, 6pm-8pm

12-18 year olds can join us every week to learn about bush-craft, fire-lighting, shelter building, foraging, food growing and cooking at the Trinity Garden. No need to book, just come along, its free! Contact Lisa: lisat@3ca.org.uk / 07791 140 916

Holiday Lunch Clubs

Wednesdays: 29 July, 12 & 26 Aug, 10am-12pm

A cookery club for parents and children of all ages. Come and enjoy cooking with other local families, and enjoy your creations in our beautiful garden. Free (donations welcome) - Booking essential, contact Helen: helenw@3ca.org.uk / 0117 935 1200

World's Largest Samba Dance!

Wednesdays 29 Jul; 5, 12 & 19 Aug, 5.30pm-6pm

Help us beat the current Guinness World Record for the World's Largest Samba Dance at the Stapleton Rd Make Sunday Special event on Sunday 23 August. Join the free dance workshop sessions and learn the simple routine created by World Jungle Samba Dancers. Contact Ripley: ripley@3ca.org.uk / 0117 935 1200

Hype Dance Street Dance

Wednesdays, 6pm-7pm and 7pm-8pm

Exciting and vibrant street dance training, which is not only fun but a good way of keeping fit! for ages 5 to 11 and 12 to 25 yrs old. £5 per session (please arrive 10 minutes early to sign in). Contact Natasha: thype@hotmail.co.uk / 0117 935 1200

Little Green Warriors

Fridays, 12.30-2.30pm

A weekly meet for parents, carers & their preschoolers to enjoy seasonal activities and the urban outdoors in our beautiful community garden – Free! Contact Helen: helenw@3ca.org.uk / 0117 935 1200

Music Open Day!

Fri 14 Aug, 10am-4pm

Are you 13-21 yrs old? Try something new for free! Drums, Guitar, DJ, MC, Vocals, Production; followed by a BBQ and your chance to perform on our stage!

Contact Karina: info@3ca.org.uk / 0117 935 1200

Anita O'Flynn, one of our Volunteer Garden Coordinators, was one of the lucky winners to receive Vodafone's World of Difference UK Programme Funding. The programme gives 500 people the chance to work for a UK charity of their choice and get paid!

The award received will allow Anita to deliver 2 weekly sessions of organic gardening and cooking workshops in the Spring and Summer of 2013. One day dedicated to women and children and the other under the wide umbrella of grounding mental health.

With Anita's help we hope to create a safe space where people can learn about herbs and their uses in the morning, have lunch prepared by those interested and follow it by a workshop in gardening, that will include sowing seeds, creating compost, weed identification and so forth. Anita's role will be to help co-ordinate the volunteers during the day and help run the workshops.

The activities funded by Awards for All in 2012 demonstrated a real need for a space in which people can access a food producing garden and gain skills for free in a friendly caring environment.

Participants will include women from minority ethnic communities (BME) who have experienced domestic violence and people who are affected by mental health issues. Groups of participants will include Awaz Utaoh Asian's Women group, Wild Goose, Rethink & Terrence Higgins service users.

Workshops will be held between April-June 2013

How to get involved

To register your interest in the project contact Anita: anita@3ca.org.uk / 0117 9351200

To read more about the garden and Anita's work, visit her blog: Anita's blog

Our polytunnel has given us the gift of gardening outdoors/indoors, with crops and flowers growing faster and stronger when sheltered from winds, warmed by the sun and protected from frosts. It has also provided us with an ideal space for sowing earlier, harvesting later and hugely improving the growing potential of every square foot of soil in the community garden.

After many years of service, our old polytunnel had seen better days and the GL Hearn team agreed to take on the challenge of replacing the polytunnel plastic as part of their volunteer action day in July.

The team did a wonderful job and this improvement has give our garden groups the opportunity to grow a whole variety of plants and develop their skills further in years to come!

Here's what the team had to say about their day:

“The centre needed help renewing the polytunnel material in the community garden...7 volunteers from the Bristol office took part on what was one of the hottest days of the year so far. The day really tested the strength and endurance of the staff involved! Under the guidance of the centre’s Garden Coordinator, the GL Hearn volunteers carried out weeding, digging a trench, renewing the polytunnel material and then filling in the trench to hold the new material in place. It was extremely satisfying to see the end result of all the hard work and knowing it would make a big difference to the centre.”

Since the repairs, our polytunnel has provided an ideal space for sowing earlier, harvesting later and hugely improving the growing potential of every square foot of soil in the community garden. It has meant that there are more activities throughout the year for volunteers and participants to get involved in, giving people the opportunity to grow a whole variety of plants and develop their skills further for years to come.

Click here if you are interested in having your company's team-building day at Trinity.

After 3 years of running volunteer drop-ins The Trinity Community Garden is now running an inclusive programme of workshops that will respond to the needs of our diverse communities. We believe the project will have a positive focus creating a sense of well-being, achievement and cohesion in the community.

The Big Lottery Fund distributes half of the National Lottery good cause funding across the UK. The support for the this project comes from the Awards for All programme which aims to enable others to make real improvements to communities and the lives of people most in need.

The award received will allow us to deliver a series of weekly organic gardening and cooking sessions, providing a safe controlled space where a variety of local groups will gain hands-on experience in the garden. The workshops will include: cooking a variety of dishes from the veg growing in a simple outdoor kitchen (to be built); learn about the benefits of wild plants and herbal first aid; seed sowing and saving; companion planting; how to tend and care for fruit and vegetables; crop rotation and soil fertility.

Participants will include women from minority ethnic communities (BME) who have experienced domestic violence and people who are affected by mental health issues. Groups of participants will include Awaz Utaoh Asian's Women group, Wild Goose, Rethink & Terrence Higgins service users.

We have been collecting feedback from some of these groups regarding the need for the project and RETHINK said: “there has been a clear need displayed by our clients for an outdoor gardening group that focuses on developing skills, widening social networks and encouragement towards volunteer opportunities”. It's Awaz Utaoh's opinion that gardens bring different cultures and generations together, improving individual and community confidence, bridging the divide between ethnic, political and socio-economic groups. Terrance Higgings Trust said that "it's important for HIV positive people to have a healthy diet; this project will benefit their health and social outlook".

Workshops will be held between May-November 2012. When the project is over, the participants will be confident enough to take ownership of the space and make it a welcoming place for the local community.

Sustainable building

In addition to the gardening workshops Trinity are seeking people interested in sustainable building to initiate the outdoor kitchen that will complement this project.

The building of the outdoor kitchen will run as separate workshops, 3 days a week for 6 weeks. We have selected an experienced workshop leader to run this workshops who has successfully run similar projects in other areas. These sessions will provide open, drop-in access for the wider community and will be appropriate for all levels, with the aim of encouraging people to become more active in their community.

How to get involved

To register your interest in the project or sustainable building workshops, contact Charlie or Pete info@3ca.org.uk 0117 9351200 or join the volunteer drop-in days on Wednesdays from 12pm to 5pm, May to November 2012.

Tasks may include weeding, planting, watering, creating wildlife habitats and basic orchard maintenance.

Sessions are on Wednesdays, Fortnightly. Time: 10.00 - 14.00 starting Wednesday April 10 2024

You'll be working alongside a small team of friendly volunteers.

Sessions are for everyone 18+ years old. Lunch and reasonable travel expenses may be claimed back once you are a regular Trinity Volunteer.

To express your interest in becoming an volunteer please click here and fill out the form.

No experience necessary as all training will be given.

All welcome All gardening tools and PPE will be provided. Refreshments are provided but BYO own lunch.

Please note: This is a session for regular volunteers and not a drop-in session