A new green space for Edmonton locals to design, care for and enjoy together.
The garden offers opportunities for everyone to get involved. Share your own skills and talents or learn a new one. Help us grow food; create pollinator and wildlife attractions; and join in with our under 5’s club, workshops, and family community events to help you get active and grow the Meridian One Community Garden.
We’d love to hear from local individuals, gardeners, herbalists, carpenters, artists (musicians, spoken word artists, poets, sculptors, muralists, painters, etc.) and community groups with suggestions for potential events and garden development ideas.
Sign up to our weekly newsletter here for updates on events, workshops and volunteering opportunities.
Gardening Green Gym volunteering
Join our weekly allotment gardening Green Gym sessions. We offer free food growing and garden maintenance activities each week. Volunteers have the opportunity to take home fresh, organic produce at the end of each session.
Sessions are free and will be held weekly on Thursdays 10.45am – 2pm. Come as and when you can. Please wear sturdy shoes and bring refreshments for a 12.30pm break. We will provide gloves and tools. More information here.
Seasonal Events & Workshops
Throughout the year, the garden provides a number of weekend family events and evening community workshops based upon a range of seasonal themes and ideas. In 2023 we held several evening workshops with activities and crafts based upon health & wellbeing and jewellery making from recycled plastics. Our weekend events included a summer celebration arts & crafts event with an African drumming workshop, an autumn event with pumpkin carving and pumpkin soup, and Decembers event involved pine cone gnome & wreath making and mulled apple juice!
There will be lots more fun and exciting events for 2024 coming up soon! If you’d like to join our mailing list to be notified about future events, sign up here
Under 5’s Nature Explorers Club
Our fun, free, nature themed crafts and activities club for under 5’s runs on the first Monday of each month between April and September from 10am – 12pm.
Bring along your little ones to explore the garden, get messy in the mud kitchen, help us water the plants, and get creative with natural materials. The session always ends with a nature themed story time and seasonal fruit & veg snacks.
If you’re interested in coming along to our sessions, sign up to our mailing list here where we notify our subscribers about what’s coming up and how to get involved.
About the site
‘Meridian One’, is a cleared piece of the former national grid gas works site, in between Meridian Way and the West Anglia main line railway line to the east (served by Meridian Water train station). It is being developed by Countryside Partnerships as part of a 25-year regeneration scheme of the Meridian Water area.
The Meridian One Community Garden is a meanwhile site on that plot for the next 10 years, which will expand over time as adjoining patches of land are released to us. To help the community get things started, The Conservation Volunteers (TCV) will manage the site for the first four years from Autumn 2022. See below for opening times and volunteering and educational opportunities. From time to time, we will also be hosting a range of workshops and family events.
How to find us
Location map
Spring/Summer Opening Hours
- Monday – Friday – open 9am – 5pm
- Thursdays – Gardening Green Gym 10.45am – 2pm
Address
TCV Meridian One Community Garden, London, N18 2DX
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Directions
Nearest station Meridian Water. Exit station onto Meridian One building site, turn right and follow the footpath to the Meridian One Sales and Information Suite. The entrance gate to the Community Garden is on the far side of the Suite.
On foot from Lea Valley Tesco Extra, cross the trainline via Meridian Water station and follow the instructions from there.
From Albany Road, continue past the Meridian Angel Primary School car park and onto the footpath around the building site. The Garden entrance is just before the Sales and Information Suite.
Access and Parking
The site is well served by public transport. Please use the train, bus, cycle or walk where possible; there is no parking on site. Bicycles can be brought on site at owners’ risk. Buses stopping nearby include 34, 192, 341, 444.
Educational workshops for school groups
We currently provide free, curriculum-based outdoor workshops for local primary schools and home education groups. Sessions run on Mondays afternoons, last around 1.5 hours, and cover a range of topics.
Please contact us at meridianonecg@tcv.org.uk to discuss if this is of interest.
Upcoming activities
Contact us
If you’d like to contact TCV at the Community Garden, please:
Email MeridianOnecg@tcv.org.uk
Facebook: TCV Enfield
Instagram: TCVenfield
Our supporters
The plot is owned by the London Borough of Enfield and we are funded by Countryside Partnerships.
Our Partners
