News from ActivGardens

Where: Chantry Walled Garden, Chantry Park, Ipswich IP2 0BS When: Thursday 7 March 2024 from 10am to 2pm Access: Parking is in the Sue Ryder car park – location details at the bottom of this webpage: https://activlives.org.uk/activgardens/chantry-walled-garden/ Join...

Head to the Chantry Walled Garden on Thursday 12th October 2023 between 10am and 2pm to enjoy our End of Season Plant Sale. Come and enjoy this lovely site and buy a few plants for your garden at knock-down prices. You can enjoy a cuppa and homemade cake and have a...

If you are looking for a new direction come and take part in our programme to develop practical skills and build confidence on your way to further learning, training or employment! In this free 12-week course, you will learn about gardening, horticulture and nature...

Last chance to book onto ActivBlooms floristry workshop on Saturday 15 July 10am-12noon at Chantry Walled Garden in Chantry Park, Hadleigh Road, Ipswich IP2 0BS. Create and take home your own arrangement, using a variety of flowers, some of which have been grown on...

Gardening in Mind is back! An outdoor gardening programme to support mental wellbeing. Join on this free 12 week course where you will get to experience and learn about all things horticulture. Begin exercising those green fingers of yours by getting involved in...

Chantry Walled Garden is now open on Saturdays! From Saturday 10 June join us between 9am-2pm during the summer months. Come & browse our wonderful selection of bedding plants & perennials. Help support your local gardening charity – keeping people active,...

Chantry Park Walled Garden Nursery was looking resplendent yesterday as it threw open its gates for the 2023 Plant Fair. The new look Nursery was packed with perennials, flower baskets and bedding plants all waiting to be snapped up by eager members of the public...

If you are looking for a new direction come and take part in our programme to develop practical skills and build confidence on your way to further learning, training or employment! In this free 12-week course, you will learn about gardening, horticulture and nature...

Monday 5 June is World Environment Day and as ActivLives runs two community gardens in Ipswich it seemed only right that we marked the day. We’re set to welcome Ipswich Rotary Club to the People’s Community Garden for a day of environmental action! And what a day we...

Join us for our plant fair at our new-look nursery on Tuesday 30 May 10am to 2pm. Please come and browse our new selection of perennials, shrubs and climbers at this lovely walled site - Chantry Walled Garden in Chantry Park, Ipswich IP2 0BS – run by community...

Join us for an open day on Wednesday 3 May from 10am to 12 noon, a great chance to look around the People’s Community Garden, find out more about the project and sign up! About the course: In this free 12 week course you will take part in gardening, growing and...

ActivLives, Ipswich IP2 0HH £13 per hour (approx. £10,160 per annum) 15 hours per week Fixed term contract for 3 years Reference: 0898 Required as soon as possible.   ActivLives are seeking a Project Officer for a new learning and skills programme, Grow Your...

Please come along to the People’s Community Garden Festive Market at the Maidenhall Allotments, Halifax Road, Ipswich IP2 8RE 10am to 2pm on Wednesday 7 December, Monday 12 December, Wednesday 14 December Gifts available: Plants, beautiful Begonias in festive colours,...

Visitors to Ballingdon Fete in Sudbury in September had fun trying to match heritage apples from our community garden orchard to their name – why don’t you have a go? They have wonderful stories behind them: Clopton Red a seedling raised by Justin Brooke of Clopton...

Head to the Chantry Walled Garden on Thursday 6 October from 10am to 2pm for our End of Season plant sale. Visit our lovely plant nursery in Chantry Park to buy plants for your garden and to also enjoy our lovely walled site. By doing so you will be supporting our...

Our Sudbury ActivGardens team have been working hard in the sunshine recently! A few of the volunteers still wanted to come along to help maintain the gardens at Belle Vue Park despite the warm weather, which was great. Reports were that it was 29 degrees by 11:30am,...

Today was very busy!  We had a delivery of chipped branches from Kevin and crew, which we used to create a new pathway and also mulch the new border under the trees.  Also Katherine from Katie's Garden nursery (a Sudbury in Bloom contact) brought us four trays of...

The team at the Chantry walled garden centre have been hard at work, preparing the planters that were to be erected in Ipswich high street. The team worked tirelessly to ensure these planters were planted to the required specifications, and are extremely proud of...

Why not pop on down to our Chantry Park Walled Garden Nursery to browse our fabulous range of plants and get your garden looking amazing this Summer! You can also order your plants online so why not take the time to browse our online catalogue for our bigger and...

A forctivLives is seeking a Session Leader for its thriving ActivSheds project in Ipswich. This position is suitable for someone with a passion for carpentry and construction, who enjoys working with people and passing on their skills. You will gain experience of...

JOB DESCRIPTION ActivLives, Ipswich IP2 0HH £12 per hour (approx. £9,380 per annum) 15 hours per week Fixed term contract for 12 months Required as soon as possible. Closing date: Midday Friday 29 April 2022 Interview date: Wednesday 11 May 2022 ActivLives is looking...

We are thrilled to be celebrating Spring and the launch of our bigger and better range of plants on Thursday 24 March, 10am to 2pm – just in time for Mother’s Day. Please come and pick up a pot of tulips, daffs for your mum or loved one and browse our new selection of...

Every month our freelance worker Haidee will be writing a diary entry in her sustainability calendar. Haidee works for our gardens project in Sudbury and her diary entries give a great sense of what it's like to work there and the wildlife she encounters. This month...

ActivLives is looking to recruit keen gardeners who enjoy working alongside others to its core volunteer team. Where you’ll be working : The People’s Community Garden, Maidenhall Allotments and the CRESS Pavilion, Ipswich, Suffolk IP2 8RE. About ActivGardens...

Come along to Chantry Walled Garden, Chantry Park, Ipswich IP2 0BS on Thursday 14th October from 10am to 2pm for our end of season plant sale! There'll be the chance to pick up an Autumn bargains for your garden, so make sure to pop by and say hello, the team at the...

Post: ‘Grow Your Community’ Sudbury and Great Cornard Project Co-ordinator - Freelance Rate: £90 per day (7.5 hours) Hours: Total 7.5 hours per week. Hours can either be worked on one day or split into two half days - one of which should be Thursday morning....

ActivLives staff and volunteers were happy to receive a water bowser kindly donated by Sudbury in Bloom, to keep Belle Vue Park well-watered over the hot Summer months. It was fantastic to meet the Mayor Sue Ayres, who kindly attended the hand-over over the water...

We'd like to say a huge thank you to Andrew Sturgeon at Lindsey Lodge Farm for donating 500 strawberry plants to the ActivGardens. It was a fantastic surprise and we've put the plants in our Chantry Walled Garden where we have enough space to store them. We've put our...

We were thrilled to be visited by the High Sheriff of Suffolk at our People's Community Garden, it was fantastic to welcome him on what was his first official visit as High Sheriff. He took a tour of the gardens and explored our poly tunnels, Cress pavilion,...

It's great to see that this year’s theme for Mental Health Awareness Week is ‘Nature’. Here at ActivLives we can see how our Community Garden Projects, the People’s Community Garden, Chantry Walled Garden and our Sudbury Project have helped our staff and volunteers to...

Enjoy a Spring outing to ActivLives plant nursery in Chantry Park, Ipswich, on Tuesdays and Thursdays 10am to 2pm. Our dedicated team of staff and volunteers will be on hand to guide you safely round this community-run heritage site and help you pick something special...

Last week was National Gardening Week and the team down at the People's Community Garden were very busy (as they always are!), they had great fun planting tomato plants and celebrating the enjoyment, fun and relaxation that working in the gardens can bring. The team...

Enjoy a Spring outing to ActivLives plant nursery in Chantry Park, Ipswich, when we open to the public on Tuesday 30th March at 10am.  We have a wide range of perennials, Geranium and other plants on offer – with bedding and a new range of plants coming in soon.  Our...

Christmas is not cancelled at ActivGardens! We are bringing our wonderful array of produce, crafts and gifts to you – but this year at the community garden so we can keep safe in the open air.

A project at our community garden to encourage women of all abilities to learn, share skills, and develop new opportunities.

Goodgym is a community of runners that combine getting fit with doing good. We stop off on our runs to do physical tasks for community organisations and to support isolated older people with social visits and one-off tasks they can’t do on their own. It’s a great way to get fit, meet new people and do some good. As long as you’re up for getting sweaty, everyone’s welcome.

At the People’s Community Garden, Maidenhall Allotments, Halifax Road and Chantry Walled Garden, Chantry Park