Help your community to enjoy a green space! Support the renovation project today.

The Feathers Association runs a Youth and Community Club in Marylebone, which is located in an area of London with significant need and deprivation. Many of the households in this area do not have access to gardens, safe play areas and only a few places for young people to meet and enjoy peer support in their wards. We provide a safe space for them to do so.

The Club has a terrace, that is usually used as a gardening learning space for the children, young people and communities, but due to lack of funding is not suitable for purpose anymore. This Rooftop Garden urgently needs renovation in order to engage more people, inspire the young generation and offer better support to the community. In consultation with children and young people, we developed a vision, how the space could look like for gardening, learning and fun activities.

Our ambition is to renovate the garden and continue providing a safe space for local children and young people as we've been doing so since 1975.

This project has taught us how important it is to bring together local residents totalling 56 nationalities, volunteers from the business community and Club members: from clearing the space to repairing and redecorating, planting and maintaining the garden.

Gardening benefits people in so many ways: learning about sustainability by growing your own food and efficient use of water, encourages getting closer to nature and learn basic gardening skills, it helps too with sensory development and most importantly - it allows the community to spend quality time together.

£30 could help us purchase plants, seeds, spring bulbs to keep our garden flowering

£60 could help us to buy 4 masonry paint kits to redecorate the walls

£100 could help us to maintain our garden and keep it beautiful on a daily basis

£300 could provide children and young people with the range of gardening tools to run the gardening lessons