Hawbush Gardens

Hawbush Community Garden is a small environmental site operating on the Hawbush Estate, in the DY5 area of Brierley Hill. Formerly an Urban Farm, the area had become overgrown and neglected over the years, but in 2014 new volunteers and a new management team brought the gardens back to its full beauty and created a tranquil and peaceful oasis within the community. We have allotments, a pond area, orchard, picnic area and woodland site.

Hawbush Estate is a community with a range of social and economic problems with significant deprivation. Some of our local primary schools have 60% Free School Meal pupil ratio compared with the national average of 25%.  

Our vision was to restore this community asset, and create an area that would bring relief from the many problems faced by residents on a daily basis. Our gardens, and the multi purpose building allow us to host a range of facilities to improve social connectivity and community engagement.  

We gained charity status in November 2016 with two main objectives;

We have two main objectives :

Promote the health and well being (physical and emotional) of the residents of the area and working together with residents regardless of age, ethnic origin, ability, sex, belief or political affiliation recognising the value of our many differences;

To carry out and promote both environmental improvement and practical conservation, to educate, encourage and support the local population in environmental practice by working with statutory and non statutory agencies. 

We now host regular activities throughout the year, to a variety of external groups and individuals. See take a tour of our website to see some of the fabulous work we do. 

If you are interested in volunteering at Hawbush Gardens please contact us at hawbushgardens@gmail.com