Holy Trinity Community Garden
Ability Grows is leading a shared vision for Holy Trinity: an accessible community garden, a welcoming café and a community hub that brings people together.
One community hub, led by Ability Grows.
Ability Grows is leading the Holy Trinity community-hub project from the initial concept and design through fundraising, project coordination and the final build, working in partnership with Holy Trinity Church.
The vision brings together the church and its grounds as a welcoming place for growing, learning, volunteering and community life. The garden, café, access improvements and heritage restoration are connected parts of that wider development.
A summer of growing together.
Our work at Holy Trinity is already under way. Over the summer, Ability Grows participants have helped care for the church grounds, tend the planters and harvest what we have grown. Here are a few moments from our time together.
How the site fits together.
Each part has its own purpose and funding needs, while contributing to one shared community-hub vision.
Kitchen Garden
Raised beds arranged around accessible working space, creating a practical area for vegetables, herbs and flowers.
Community Café
A proposed café at the rear of the church: a welcoming place for refreshments, conversation and supported volunteering.
Community Pergola
Sheltered seating and gathering space for shared activity, events and time together in the garden.
Growing Infrastructure
A greenhouse, attached cold-frame area, storage, water collection and composting to support year-round horticulture.
Accessible Car Park
A proposed accessible car park with 17 spaces, forming part of the wider plan to help people reach and use the community hub.
West Window Restoration
Restoration of the church’s west window is a distinct heritage project within the wider Holy Trinity development.
Designed so people can take part.
All planting is planned in raised beds and containers, with accessible routes through the main growing areas and wheelchair access to the pergola. The proposed 17-space accessible car park is an integral part of making the wider hub easier to reach.
Practical horticulture gives Ability Grows service users, volunteers and community partners a way to contribute through propagation, planting, maintenance and the ongoing care of the space.
A welcoming community café.
The proposed café at the rear of Holy Trinity Church will be a place to meet, enjoy refreshments and feel part of the community throughout the year.
Alongside the garden and shared activity spaces, the café is intended to create opportunities for supported volunteering, practical learning and customer-service experience.
It will give visitors somewhere to pause and connect, and help bring regular community life into the hub. The café will be developed as its own project, with a separate funding bid and plans for how it will operate.
One vision, separate projects and funding bids.
Ability Grows is shaping the overall development and helping each element move forward as a smaller, linked project. The garden, café, accessible car park and heritage restoration each require their own funding bid, allowing the hub to take shape in manageable stages.
Restoring the west window is an important part of that heritage work. Ability Grows is drawing on its contacts and developing proposals to help secure separate funding for the restoration.
Shape the whole hub
Develop the shared vision and the plans for each part, with accessibility and community use at their heart.
Fund each element
Prepare individual bids and secure the funding, permissions and delivery arrangements each project needs.
Bring the vision to life
Coordinate the linked projects through to the final build, progressing each element as funding and approvals are secured.
Holy Trinity: the next stage.
Growing activity is already taking place at Holy Trinity. Participants have helped care for the grounds, tend planters and harvest what has been grown. See the photographs of our work so far.
The wider garden and hub facilities remain proposals in development. Next steps are to refine plans with the church and partners, secure the funding and permissions for each element, then progress delivery in manageable stages.
The café, access improvements and heritage restoration have their own funding and delivery arrangements. This update does not announce grant awards, construction dates or completed new facilities.