Can your business help?

Corporate Volunteering & CSR

Give Back, Bond as a Team, and Grow Something Great

Are you looking for a meaningful corporate social responsibility (CSR) day that gets your team out of the office and into nature?

At Granville Park Allotments, we welcome small corporate teams of up to 10 people for hands-on, high-impact volunteering days. By spending a day with us, your team will help maintain a vital green space, support local biodiversity, and directly contribute to community food security.

Why Partner With Us?

Real Community Impact: Your hard work directly supports our cooperative mission to provide fresh produce to local people iin need and create a therapeutic space for residents.
Team Bonding in Nature: Swap spreadsheets for shovels. Working together in the fresh air reduces stress, boosts morale, and strengthens team dynamics away from screens.
Sustainably Minded: Align your company's ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) goals with tangible, local action.
Skill Sharing: Learn everything from sustainable organic gardening and composting to basic carpentry and wildlife habitat creation.

Projects Your Team Can Tackle

Depending on when you visit, your team might help us with:

Construction: Building compost bins, assembling greenhouses, or repairing/painting communal sheds or other structures.
Landscaping: Clearing overgrown plots, laying accessible woodchip pathways, or digging new beds.
Conservation: Native Planting, installing bird boxes and creating habitats for wildlife
Cultivation: Large-scale mulching, weeding, planting out crops, or helping with the harvest.

What We Provide & Logistics

We Provide:

All necessary tools, gloves, and safety equipment.
Experienced, friendly project leaders to guide your day.
Unlimited tea, coffee, and biscuits to keep energy high.

Site Logistics & Facilities:

Group Size: We host a maximum of 10 volunteers per day to ensure a safe, productive, and meaningful experience.
Parking: Free on-street parking is available directly outside or on the roads immediately surrounding the allotment gates.
Facilities: Please note that we do not have an on-site toilet facility. However, fully accessible public toilets are available just a short walk away on the main street.

Ready to Get Your Hands Dirty?

Local Donations

Support Your Local Community Allotment

At Granville Park, we believe that fresh, sustainably grown food and vibrant green spaces should be accessible to everyone. As a small, community-run cooperative society, we work hard to transform local plots into thriving spaces that support biodiversity, improve mental well-being, and supply fresh produce to local food banks.

But we cannot do it alone. We are looking to partner with community-minded local businesses to help us expand our impact.

Whether it is a financial contribution, a donation of surplus materials, or sponsoring a specific project, your business can play a vital role in helping our community thrive.

Why Support Us?

Highly Visible Local Impact: Your support stays 100% local, directly benefiting the residents, families, and food security initiatives in our immediate neighbourhood.
Boost Your CSR & Green Credentials: Show your customers and clients that you care about sustainability, community health, and the environment.
Public Recognition: We love shouting about our partners! We proudly feature our business supporters on our website, across our social media channels, and on a dedicated "Supporters Board" at the allotment gates.
Tax-Deductible Giving: As a registered cooperative society, your charitable corporate donations or material gifts may be eligible for tax relief.

How Your Business Can Help

We welcome support in a variety of forms, from financial sponsorship to physical supplies:

1. Project & Area Sponsorship

Fund a specific, long-lasting asset on our site.

2. Material & Tool Donations

We are always in need of high-quality tools and construction materials. If your business has surplus stock or trade leftovers, please consider donating:

Building materials: Timber (untreated), heavy-duty screws, timber sleepers, or paving flags.

Become a Community Partner Today

Every donation—no matter how large or small—helps us keep our community space growing. If your business would like to support us, or if you have materials you think we could use, we would love to hear from you.

John Lewis & Partners 2024-2026

John Lewis Partner, and member of our Association Michelle, kindly nominated us for support via the local Trafford Centre branch and their Community Liason Coordinator.

John Lewis have provided us with a £1000 grant to to be spent on boosting volunteering opportunities at our Community Plot which will support local people to gain valuable employability skills. John Lewis Partners also rolled up their sleeves and joined our members for gardening and general maintenance at the allotment ground. The extra hands made a fantastic boost to the ongoing work coordinated by our grounds maintainence subgroup. In 2026, John Lewis awarded us with a further £2000 grant to help us fund developments at the Community Plot and Community Hub.

John Lewis began trading over 150 years ago in 1864 on London's Oxford Street, and is a leading retailer in the UK with 34 John Lewis shops and a growing online business - johnlewis.com. Did you know that the John Lewis Partnership is the UK’s largest employee owned business? John Lewis invests in local communities through an inspiring Corporate Social Responsibility Programme to promote a fairer and more inclusive society. This involves donations, gifts ‘in kind’, strategic relationships with charities, and Partner volunteering and engagement with local communities.

Forever Manchester Autotrader Fund 2024

Forever Manchester awarded us a grant of £861 to buy long lasting tables that can be used for all of our community events. Previously we were reliant on using heavy trestle tables which were difficult to set up and store. These tables will make a huge difference to our members, volunteer and the local community who attend our events. With the right equipment we can run more, better quality and engaging events - practicality makes things happen! The tables came out for their first appearance at our Spring Tea Party where members and their family, friends and supporters united to celebrate the start of the growing season with tea, cakes and camaraderie.

Kiwi Nurseries, Sale 2024

Thank you to Kiwi Nurseries in Sale for donating this barrow full of plants for our Community Borders. Great support from a local business.

Miller Homes 2024

The contribution from Miller Homes Community Fund will be used to purchase gazebos, providing more covered space for events held at the allotments. This new space will allow the association to host a wider range of activities and continue it's fundraising efforts, which are vital in keeping membership fees affordable for all. By creating a space where the community can gather, the allotment aims to enhance wellbeing and enjoyment for its members and visitors.

Miller Homes was established in 1934 and is one of the UK’s largest, privately owned national homebuilders with a focus on building new homes in attractive regional markets.

Our purpose is to ‘create great places where people and planet prosper’. This is achieved by building homes and developments that create communities with an emphasis on placemaking and design.

ConvertMy, Urmston

Mike at ConvertMy provided a full day (fully staffed) with a mini digger that helped us clear bramble roots at the border of the carpark and the border at Westborne. Use of machinery made a huge difference to how we could manage this task.