Get your boots on and join the volunteer Forest Gardeners on Sunday 21 December 2025, 10am-12pm in Hollingdean Park. We meet at the Lynchet Shed at 10am and wander up through Hollingdean Park to the Community Orchard and Forest Garden. Tools, gloves, refreshments and friendly support make this a lovely monthly gathering all round the year. Something for everyone to do. Children can join in too with a responsible adult.

Visit our new signs in Hollingdean Park, November 2025

Entrance Map , Forest Garden and Pond Sign installed November 2025

Growing Hollingdean have collaborated with Froglife and Brighton & Hove Food Partnership to make new growing and wildlife spaces in Hollingdean Park. New signs explain where these areas are and what you can find there. Thank you to all those volunteers involved in making this happen, we couldn’t do it without you!

Would you like to get involved in taking care of our trees, plants and wildlife in the park and Forest Garden? It is fun and friendly. Join us on 3rd Sunday morning of the month from 10am -12pm. Everyone welcome!

See Growing Hollingdean’s Forest Garden page here and Tree Map here,

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Making Hollingdean great!

Thank you to Carl Evans Street Art and team who create this spectacular mural on Stephens Road and Brentwood Road this July 2025. Thank you to Jo-seph for organising it all and to Hollingdean Residents Association and B&H Housing Department for agreeing the funding, see details on our blog here. This was included as part of the Two Tree Community Garden mural with leftover funds.

Two Tree Community Garden Mural

Pop down anytime for a wander or sit in Two Trees Community Garden. Enjoy this beautiful quiet space and nature.

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Join Volunteers at Two Trees Community Garden for a BYO Picnic

Come along for a relaxed and friendly public meet-up at Two Trees Community Garden! It’s a bring your own picnic bring and enjoy some time in the green space with neighbours and local growers. Learn about the community’s trees, wildflowers, food forest, edible hedge, orchard, ponds, bog, and the five Community Gardens in Hollingdean.

💬 Got gardening questions?
🎨 Want to give feedback on the new mural?
🌱 Curious about volunteering with Growing Hollingdean?

We’d love to hear from you! Let’s connect, share ideas, and grow together.

Two Tree Community Garden Mural is finished, July 2025

Thank you to Carl Evans Street Art and the many local helpers who create this spectacular mural. Thank you to Jo-seph for organising it all and to Hollingdean Residents Association and B&H Housing Department for agreeing the funding, see details on our blog here. See more information on Two Trees Community Garden web page here. We look forward to meeting you.

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Join us on Sunday for Tree Guardians, 10am-12noon the first Sunday of every month. We meet at Growing Hollingdean shed on the corner of Brentwood Road and Lynchet Close. See our Tree Guardian website page for more information, click here.

17 Tree Guardians volunteers turned up on 6th April 2025

It was a beautiful sunny morning with a cool breeze on 6th April 2025. Jo-seph led volunteers down to Merevale to finish caging and stacking trees 184 to 191. Some of us carried out light weeding, adding grass clippings around the base of the trees. Mulching in this way helps to conserve the water at the base of the trees and to feed them. It all adds up to happier, healthier trees and better crops!

Polly lead some of us down Stephen’s Road weeding around tree numbers 203-7 and 212 to 216. All the weeding is by hand, including nettles (we wear gloves!) and then left to dry in the sunshine and return the nutrients into the ground.

We recommend a walk round Hollingdean to enjoy the blossom. It is particularly good this year.

Enjoy a walk round Hollingdean for beautiful apple blossom

Thank you to the volunteers who helped make it all happen.

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Sunday 20th April 2025 at 10am

Hop into the fun this Easter! Explore the new Edible Hedge and Forest Garden at the Hollingdean Park and Community Orchard, while hunting for yummy eggs! Tickets are free or by donation – all funds go towards supporting Growing Hollingdean and our local green spaces. We’ve got milk chocolate and milk-free / vegan eggs, so no one misses out!

Important: Every child taking part must have a ticket – no ticket, no hunting! Let’s keep it fun for everyone – please be kind, patient, and respect others during the game.

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Thank you to the volunteers who organised this.

Join Will from Froglife on Wednesday 2 October 2024, from 10am to 4pm

Join Will from Froglife and volunteers to add the finishing touches to the Hollingdean Park Football Pitch ‘Bog Garden’ (a shallow, boggy and plant-rich pond). We’ll be adding a layer of aquatic soil to achieve the perfect boggy texture, before planting-in some aquatic plants.

We also plan to create a woven ‘dead-hedge’ or ‘brash fence’ around the perimeter with cut branches. Meet us at 10am at Hollingdean Park Football Pitch, Lynchet Close, Brighton, BN1 7EY (above the play park and skatepark) (What3Words: oasis.candle.torn). 

Session to last from 10am to 4pm. Parking available at meet point, or Hollingdean is serviced by bus no. 50 from Brighton Station, or is a 15-minute walk from Moulsecoomb Station.

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Prayer quiet space created at St Richards Church Community Garden on 20th July 2024

The final phase of the community garden was realised with the support from Growing Hollingdean Volunteers and the community at St Richards. All ages turned up to help plant a circle of lavender around the new sweet chestnut bench and arch.

We also planted an olive, a lilac, a climbing rose and a fig tree which meant digging a huge hole to create a paving slab pot deep in the ground to contain its roots and encourage good fruiting. 

We also harvested a lot of potatoes that will be shared through the Food Bank.

Please come and enjoy the space for a quiet picnic or unwind with sunset views while enjoying the relaxing smell of lavender with a wider backdrop of wildflowers and pollinators and visiting birds.

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Monday 22 April 2024, 2 to 4pm

Join Mel for some light gardening tasks involve pruning, weeding, mulching and general tidying. Tavistock Down Community Garden, Hollingdean, BN1 7BX. We look forward to meeting you.

Strength & Balance is important says Ageing Well website

“As we get older our muscle strength and balance reduces, and this increases our risk of having a life-changing fall. The good news is that we can reduce this risk, and the earlier we start, the better. Being active and doing simple exercises designed to improve strength and balance can make a real difference. Falls are not an inevitable part of ageing, and we can all take steps to help us stay strong and steady and keep our independence.” Other Aging Well event going on in Brighton, thank you to the Brighton & Hove Council. Six exercises to build strength and balance at home.

“The activities associated with gardening can help to increase overall muscle strength, balance, and flexibility, helping you stay mobile, and keeping the heart healthy. The tasks you do in the garden can also burn some serious calories, with weeding burning up to 400 calories an hour and studies finding that the physical exertion of working in a garden may help offset age related weight gain.” Says Abbeyfield

How to find Two Trees Community Garden @TavistockDown

The gate entrance is accessible via south end of Tavistock Down, behind the play park, next to the turning to Thompson Road or use what3words, panel.fallen.trash.

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One of our Tree Guardian volunteers, Polly, organised a Saturday session on Brentwood Road, with locals Pippa, Nic, Holly, Derek and Marko. Staking three apple trees and giving them a spring pruning. The sun was shining and everyone enjoyed a bit of strength training, post ramming stakes, weighing about 15kg. Great fun.

January can be a long blue month, chatting to passing locals about the trees brings us a smile. Saying hello to strangers in the morning can make you feel happier throughout the rest of the day, latest evidence suggests. A new study has found that individuals who chat to people they don’t know are more likely to feel happier than those who choose to ignore strangers in the street. Join us and give it a go.

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We will be planting flowers, shrubs and sewing seeds

Join us for our next gardening event at St Richards Church, Beale Crescent, from 1.30 – 4.30pm The No dig and raised beds have been made – now we’re ready to do some planting! All welcome.

“Hi there, this post is from Polly, one of the founding members of the Growing Hollingdean Collective. I have lived in Hollingdean for since 2011 and love the community here. I am studying a Diploma in Permaculture Design and am very passionate about Community Gardens. As part of my diploma I have provided designs for The Old Green and Hollingdean Community Centre. I am now working with another local resident Hilary who has studied an RHS Level 2 in Horticulture towards a design for St Richards Church.“

See our video our second workday in March. We look forward to seeing you next time.

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Growing Hollingdean is looking for a knowledgeable and enthusiastic person to organise activities for more local people to enjoy being outdoors in nature; and learn about taking care of the trees, wildflowers, gardens and nature around Hollingdean (April- September 2023). If this sounds like you, please send details of your knowledge and experience and how you will carry out the work to  Info@growinghollingdean.org.uk by March 24th 2023. We aim to agree a contract by 31st March 2023. You will also need to provide evidence of self-employed status. Details below.

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Hollingdean volunteer gardeners get together to help out

Horton Road new flower bed

These are some of the things we have been doing recently planting out some new pollinator plants bought with a Council grant! Volunteer Tree Guardians clear the weeds and rubbish from around the bottom of the local fruit and nut trees and then mulch with woodchip.

Come and join us for our next tree guardian volunteer session. Email us through our contact page here to let us know your coming.

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