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Garden Project 25

Garden Project 25

School and Community Gardening Projects

Applications are now open for 2025! 

Is your school or community group looking for help to improve your garden space?

To celebrate our Inverness stores 25th birthday in 2025, we are delighted to announce that we will be donating £25,000 of garden centre vouchers to school and community garden projects across Inverness, the Highlands and Aberdeenshire.

Whether you use your outdoor space to grow fruit and veg, as a wildlife corner or a quiet space to enjoy the outdoors, we’d love to hear about it.

To apply or nominate a garden project, please complete our easy form by clicking the button below.

Applications close midnight Sunday 30th March.

APPLY FOR GARDEN PROJECT 25 HERE
Congratulations to the community and school groups who received vouchers in 2024 for their gardening projects!

Thanks to all who applied for our 2024 school and community garden grants. We are so pleased to hear about so many local school and community growing projects and that so many people are involved in getting outside and growing in their communities!

Congratulations to the following gardens near our Inverness store:

  • Dingwall Academy
  • Ness Castle Nursery
  • Central School Nursery
  • Cauldeen Primary
  • North Kessock Primary
  • Balloch Primary School
  • Home to Highland garden
  • Bishop Eden’s Primary
  • Strathpeffer Primary School
  • JAPES and SAPES community garden

Congratulations to the following gardens near our Aberdeenshire store:

  • 1st Peterhead Scout group
  • Dales Park Nursery in Peterhead
  • Friends of the Den in Turriff
  • Stepping Stones nursery in Ellon
  • Rothienorman Primary School
  • Fraserburgh North School
  • Strichen Primary School
  • Balmedie Primary School
  • The Cabin Club Forest School in Cruden Bay
  • Tipperty Primary School

We can’t wait to hear how all the projects are coming along over the next few months.

Have a look at some of the past gardening projects we have supported across the Inverness & Highland areas below:

Dalneigh Community Garden

It was a true community effort at Dalneigh Community Garden to develop the garden area at the James Cameron Centre in Dalneigh. We were delighted to support the project by donating a giant bag of daffodil bulbs last year to help create a bright and welcoming burst of colour every spring.

It’s lovely to hear that children from Dalneigh Primary have been involved with the garden and voted overwhelmingly to name the space ‘The Butterfly Garden’. The garden area is open to the public as a focal point and meeting space in the Dalneigh community and beyond – if you would like to visit or volunteer your services in the garden just pop into the reception of the centre.

Inshes Wheeled Sports Facility

We were delighted to support the Inverness Wheeled Sports Club last year in creating a welcoming space at the new wheeled sports facility at Inshes park. We were delighted to donate a selection of plants, compost and wildflower seeds to help blend this great facility into its natural landscape.

Drakies Mindfulness Garden

We were delighted to support a local primary school with a cash donation to create a mindfulness garden for the pupils and staff to enjoy an inviting outdoor spaces to boost their mental health and wellbeing.

Chase Reach Project

We are absolutely delighted to have helped contribute towards the fabulous work of the Aberdeen Foyer Reach Project, Team 18 last year, who worked on the grounds at Grange Park Care Home as part of their community project.

The team have done a great job of creating a colourful and welcoming space, incorporating one of our water features, bird feeding station and a selection of bright plants for all the residents and visitors to the care home to enjoy.

Garden Centre Visits

If your school or community group would like to visit the garden centre to chat to our team and get inspiration for your garden, please also email the addresses above. Dates are limited and will be offered and filled on a first come, first served basis.

T&C’s: applications will be accepted from school/community gardens based in Inverness, The Highlands and Aberdeenshire. Voucher donation amount may vary depending on project. Vouchers cannot be spent in concession stores such as Fishkeeper Inverness or Lakeland. Garden centre decision on winners is final, cash alternative will not be offered. Applications received after the closing date will not be considered. Groups that receive a donation will be expected to share photos of their gardens.