Take action for nature

#NoMowMay: The perks of letting your lawn run free this spring

Make the most of No Mow May this year by letting your garden grow a little wild.

All About Councils and Local Authorities

A brief overview of how councils work in the UK.

Bank Accounts For Groups

Information about types of bank accounts for community groups.

Businesses - How They Can Help You (and how you can help them)

How groups and charities can work with local businesses, how to approach them and what to offer them.

Faith Groups and Lottery Funding

Find out here about some of the faith groups in the UK and their religious position on gambling and lottery funds.

Finding Funding

General hints and tips for finding funding for your projects.

Gift Aid - Can You Claim It?

Most of the community groups working in local areas aren't charities.

How Community Groups Can Go Peat-Free - and Why it's Important

Community gardens and high street planting projects often use peat in pots and borders.

How To Write a Press Release

Basic tips on how to write a press release.

How to Apply for Funding

What do you need to do when you are thinking of applying for funding.

How to Comment on Planning Developments

People, housing and nature can all peacefully exist together.

How to Make Your Own Compost

You don’t need much space to compost most of your kitchen and garden waste, and it’s easy to get started.

How to Run a Fundraising Event

Here are some hints if you are thinking of running a fundraising event.

How to contact your MP, MS (Wales), MLA (Northern Ireland) or MSP (Scotland)

How to find your MP and how to get in touch with them.

Insurance for Local Groups

Types of insurance for local groups.

Making Sure Everyone Can Access Your Group or Project

Information about ensuring your projects are accessible to everyone.

Managing Conflict in a Group

Understanding conflict and how to deal with it in groups.

Practical Tips for Cross-Cultural Communication

Helpful hints when you are working with people from diverse cultural backgrounds.

Reaching People in Your Community

How to get the word out about your group or your project, and connect with people in your community.

Risk Assessments

All about risk assessments.

Running a Group Session: How to Get Started

Advice about how to run a group session and facilitate a meeting.

Setting up a Basic Community Group

This guide explains how to set up a basic community group or unincorporated association.

Should our Group be Constituted?

This guide tells you what it means to be a constituted group.

Speaking to Councils, Councillors and People in Authority

How to feel more confident when you talk to your local council.

Taking Over Green Space In Your Area

If you want to know how to get started in taking over a patch of green space, read this and watch the video from the young people of Keeping it Wild!.

The Importance of Local Wildlife

It's a great idea to grow more wild plants but we need to make sure that they are the right plants for the right places.

Things You Can Do About Climate Change

We are in the middle of a climate and nature emergency.

Types of Community Group (England and Wales)

This guides explains the different types of community group in England and Wales.

What Does Liability Mean? Health and Safety for Community Groups

Liability means that you are responsible for something or someone.

Working With Under-18s

If your group includes people under the age of 18, you need to think carefully about safeguarding.

Working with Many Languages

A guide about working with groups where many languages are spoken.

"Going Wild": Building a Wildlife Haven in the Back Garden

Building a garden around wildlife with ponds, fruit and veg, bushes and trees.

'Listening to Locals is Key': Learnings from a Successful Community Group

From handing out seedlings to established community group, Grow Batheaston show how powerful listening to local people can be.

A wildlife refuge in central Southampton

A group of residents have created a welcome garden to attract local people to the Rollesbrook Greenway, a site of heritage and ecological importance.

Alderman Kneeshaw Park, Hull: a community making a local park a better place to be

The Friends of Alderman Kneeshaw Park are a group of dedicated volunteers with a passion for regenerating and reigniting local people’s love of the park.

Attleborough Wildlife Watchers, Nuneaton, Warwickshire

Local people wanted to protect wildlife from the hazards of litter and make their area a nice place to be.

Beacon Seedlings - Community Gardening

The community who use the local cafe have come together to start a gardening project in Exeter.

Building a Butterfly and Moth Garden in a Disused Quarry

How volunteers came together to build a beautiful butterfly garden .

Connecting with people and nature at Washington Mind Gardening Group

Washington Mind Gardening Group is helping local people connect with nature, meet new friends and manage their mental health.

Damers First School - a holistic approach to food and gardening

How one school in Dorset grows veg, uses veg, sells veg - it's all about the veg!.

Friends of Irth, Northamptonshire: Growing a community garden from the ground up

From unnamed eco group to funded community project.

From Rubbish Tip to Wildlife-Friendly Vegetable Garden

How a community came together to transform a rubbish tip behind the local pub into a thriving wildlife-friendly vegetable garden.

Growing Food with Communities in Crewe

Incredible Edible and Cheshire Wildlife Trust come together to transform urban areas for growing food for people - and wildlife.

How School Pupils Brought a Neglected Planter Back to Life

Pupils at Brook Street Primary School have transformed a rundown raised bed into a beautiful bed of vegetables and plants.

How a Housing Estate in Essex is Nurturing its Community and Nature

Read about a housing estate that came together to take over their communal green space.

Investigating the Impact of a Housing Development on Local Wildlife

A community group is carrying out surveys of their local brook to find out how a new housing development is affecting aquatic life.

Jamie's Computers: Creating a Wildlife Garden in an Industrial Estate

Mount Pleasant Industrial Estate in Southampton is starting to look a little bit wilder.

Norton Grange Community Centre

Community group faces conflict and opposition and antisocial behaviour.

Norton Quaker Meeting House Community Garden

How local Quakers and the community of Norton are working together to grow food.

Planning a Greening Project with the Over-55s of Hastings

The very start of a project in Hastings to help local residents make the area around their high-rise flats greener and nicer for people and for wildlife.

Planning a small space in Somerset

A couple in Somerset tell us what they grow and show us how they plan the season.

Restoring a Spinney for the Benefit of People and Wildlife

Cornwall Wildlife Trust and the Spinney Action Group in Camborne where residents have volunteered to improve a local site.

Short snippets about people helping nature

A growing collection of tips and advice from around the UK.

St Ann's Allotments, Nottingham - a training day with the local community

Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust, Wilder Nottinghamshire, St Aidan's Church, Nottingham Women's Centre, The Secret Garden Project & Nottingham College.

St Mark's Church Group Plant 1,000 Square Metres of Wildflowers

St Mark’s Church in Merseyside has turned a large unused green space outside the church into a 1,000-square-metre wildflower meadow.

Taking action for nature through photography and nature spotting

Spotting wildlife is a great way to take action for nature.

The Beehive Centre: Building a vegetable and wildlife garden for the community

The Beehive Centre brought nature to its outdoor space to assist in their mission to reduce isolation and loneliness.

The Hadhari Project: a Centre for the Elders of the West Indian Community in Derby

The elders who use the Hadhari Centre in Derby would like a nicer place to sit out and enjoy nature, and perhaps somewhere to grow food.

The Mile Cross Community Garden at The Phoenix Centre, Norwich

Community group in Norwich inspired by Incredible Edible growing food and vegetables in their local area.

Tilgate Youth Rangers

Young volunteers in Sussex are transforming an area of a park now dedicated to growing food in a wildlife-friendly way.

Transforming Unused Green Spaces into Community Gardens in Bemerton

In Bemerton Heath, a new project is transforming unused grass and green spaces into vibrant community gardens.

What Is It Like to be the Vice President of a Committee?

Marie jumped in at the deep end at her local ‘Friends of’ group when she was asked to step in as vice-chair of the committee.

Young people create homes for wildlife on the Isle of Wight

A team of young people have planned and created new homes for wildlife on the Isle of Wight.