Our story
It started with one overgrown plot
Fifteen years ago, a handful of neighbours refused to let a patch of wasteland go to waste. They cleared it, planted it, and opened the gate to everyone.
That first garden became a meeting place — somewhere to learn, to grow food, and to be noticed. People came for the vegetables and stayed for each other. Word spread to the next street, then the next neighbourhood.
Today Commonwell runs free wellbeing programmes across two dozen neighbourhoods: community gardens, youth clubs, skills training, movement classes and elder companionship. Everything is free at the point of need, and everything is shaped by the people who use it.
