Welcome to Nurture Through Nature
An award-winning charity in the City of Brighton & Hove
We help to alleviate food poverty in our city by growing and supplying vegetables for food banks and community centres. The food we grow is donated to the Brighton & Hove City Mission food bank and other local causes. City Mission said:
“We are so very thankful for the relationship that we have established with Nurture through Nature. Our clients really benefit from the fresh vegetables we receive each week. More importantly they can see that people in the City are prepared to grow, pick and deliver the food for them. That makes them feel very special”.
We have three community plots at Moulsecoomb allotments in Natal Road where we hold our food growing groups. We work with volunteers and involve them in planning how we use the plot over the growing season. Volunteers can be new to gardening or they may be horticultural wizards. We also collect surplus produce from other growers at the Moulsecoomb Allotments adding to donations and reducing food waste.
We have student volunteers from both Brighton and Sussex Universities undertaking work placements with us as part of their degree requirements. We also accept larger groups for volunteering days.
We have a new chair of trustees – Luke Ashby who volunteered on our plot is our new chair. there will be more about him soon. We want to thank Drew Hardy, our outgoing chair, for the time and dedication he has put in to steering Nurture Through Nature so ably for the last seven years. We offer our thanks and wish Drew and family all the best for the future.
In the Spring of 2019, Students from Sussex University filmed the following interview with our founder, Nick Blewitt:
| A few words from our volunteers….
“I can’t recommend volunteering here highly enough. Not only did I feel valued, part of a team, learned new skills, had great fun and met truly beautiful and amazing people, but I also realised that working in nature gives you a surprisingly strong inner sense of well-being. It’s almost like a completely selfish good deed. Yes, the people who receive the donations benefit from the charity, and that’s absolutely fantastic, but what the volunteers gain is far beyond expectation.” “I really looked forward to my Friday sessions on the allotment. I just loved the atmosphere there, everyone was so relaxed and easy going, working together was a pleasure and I really enjoyed even what some might consider the tedious jobs like weeding, as they were still very rewarding! The whole experience just allowed me to calm down and feel better able to cope with the other things going on in my life. They say that gardening is good therapy, but working on the plot was even better than that!” “It has been a real pleasure to be part of the Nurture Through Nature project. After leaving my job, I wanted to invest time into some worthwhile volunteering and found the community allotment. The project is inspiring and the leaders are friendly, knowledgeable and supportive. It’s great to have some structure back in my life and feel like I’ve contributed to something really important. Food is a basic need often taken for granted and to be helping to grow it for others who may be in food poverty, whilst also reaping the therapeutic benefits of connecting with the land and the other volunteers, feels great. It’s a mutually beneficial and brilliant project.” |
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Volunteer with us
We are looking for volunteers now. We’d love to hear from you if you have some time on your hands during the week and want to join a friendly group of people tow work outdoors for a few hours.. Our sessions run on two weekdays (the actual days vary). You don’t need any gardening experience or knowledge, we provide instruction and adapt tasks to your abilities. Head to our volunteer registration page and sign up now. We’re looking forward to hearing from you.
First session in 2024 on 26 January
If you think you can support us in ways other than gardening, then we’d love to hear from you.
A huge thanks to our funders for supporting our project and for making this all possible.
Who We Are
We are a Charitable Incorporated Organisation supported by grants and donations.
What We Do
We run group gardening sessions on our Moulsecoomb allotment, donating food to the Brighton Unemployed Centre Families Project.
We Need You
We'd love your help! Volunteers are essential to our project. Read our website and get in touch!