The Crafty Gardener

'The Crafty Gardener' Community Interest Company works with vulnerable adults and provides quality gardening and crafts products for retail.

The Crafty Gardener is a Community Interest Company providing meaningful day activities, education and employment related support through social enterprise.

Horticultural and craft activities enable The Crafty Gardener to keep day services costs to a minimum. Costs for day services are currently £25 per 6 hour day based on people working in small groups.
Our retail activities also give participants opportunities to develop employability skills and to access new events, people and places.

The Crafty Gardener is also involved in a national research project looking at the impact of community learning on mental health and wellbeing. We can currently provide places free of charge to people aged 19 and over who feel they have symptoms of anxiety, low mood or sleep problems and who are happy to be involved in the research.

We can also provide bespoke workshops and short courses in specific areas of horticulture, health and wellbeing, crafting and employability skills.

People using The Crafty Gardener usually live in Wolverhampton, Shropshire or Staffordshire and are aged 18 upwards.
The majority of our horticultural and craft activities take place at our allotment site at Boundary Way in Warstones, Wolverhampton. The allotment is part of a wider community cooperative and is easily reached using public transport.

Our courses and workshops are delivered in venues across The Black Country and South Staffordshire.

The Crafty Gardener is happy to look at other individual or group arrangements, please contact us via our email to discuss this: info@thecraftygardener.org. uk

Any written correspondence is done via our secure office base c /o Access 2 Business in Wolverhampton City Centre.

Sally and Tilly, the two company directors, are both experienced teachers and managers of community support services, training and horticultural projects.

The Crafty Gardener is an approved micro-provider for Wolverhampton City Council.