Walthamstow Village in Bloom

Walthamstow Village in Bloom is a volunteer-led community gardening group started in 2004. We maintain planters, flowerbeds, tree pits and any public spaces that require attention. We meet on the first Saturday of every month until May when we add weekly Saturday and Wednesday evenings. We have a year-round list of activities that includes weeding, planting and pruning, litter-picking, re-painting street furniture, clearing and cutting back vegetation from footpaths and tending the Community Meadow. In 2017 we joined 78 other finalists in Llandudno as we represented the London region in the prestigious Britain in Bloom UK-wide competition. After the hard work we've all put in we were thrilled and delighted to win a national GOLD award and the RHS Growing Communities award with Helen Lerner scooping Community Champion of the Year! The other results in our category were Aldridge, Walsall (Heart of England) - Gold, Clifton, Bristol (South West) - Silver-Gilt, Didsbury, Manchester (North West) - Gold, Littleover, Derby (East Midlands) - Silver, Starbeck, Harrogate (Yorkshire) - Silver Gilt, and Uddingston, Glasgow (Scotland) - Gold.