We are absolutely thrilled to be working with the National Lottery Heritage Fund to bring our heritage skills training programme in community orchard management, – known as CICO, to North Lanarkshire in Scotland. This exciting new programme, called Fruitful North Lanarkshire, will run for three years. It is set to provide skills training and a potential route to work for 50 people, as well a
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Launching our 5-year strategic plan
The Orchard Project is the national charity for community orchards. Our vision is big and bold – in cities across the UK, we want everyone to be within easy reach…
An Orchard in Every Prison – Our new partnership with the Ministry of Justice
We’re delighted to be working with the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) in its efforts towards the nature recovery. The MoJ aims to have a well-maintained orchard in every prison across…
Quench your thirst with Hawkes and you’ll be donating to our orchard movement!
Today we launch a new chapter in our journey to plant and preserve community orchards across our urban landscapes. Our cider team has changed its food-waste reduction mission this year.…
Celebrating a fruitful partnership with Heineken UK
Our fantastic partnership with Heineken UK began in 2014. It has been instrumental in allowing us to expand the scope of our services to many regions of the UK and…
CICO has expanded to Wales!
Since 2017, we’ve been running our highly popular accredited course, the Level 3 Certificate in Community Orcharding (CICO). For the first time, the course has expanded to Wales! This is really…
Our orchard movement grows strong in Swansea
At the end of June, just ten months after expanding our mission into South Wales, we held our first Orchard Gathering! The event, held at Margam Country Park, was attended…
We’re part of #TreeActionManchester a £1,000,000 green strategy for the borough of Manchester
During the pandemic we’ve partnered with Manchester Council (HERE) to deliver four new community orchards as a year-long engagement programme of training and events programmes for local residents and new…
Weekend courses are back!
Exciting news! – Our popular two-day weekend courses are making a return. Coming soon to a community orchard near you… soil health, fruit tree aftercare, biodiversity boosting and mu(l)ch more!…
Could urban food forests be the future for orchards? – Launching our new Forest Gardening course
Over the last two years, a new direction has quietly been germinating at The Orchard Project. Scratching our heads, we’ve grappled long and hard over how best to adapt our…