“When we tug at a single thing in nature, we find it attached to the rest of the world.”

— JOHN MUIR

Growing Sudley CIC is a not for profit community business based in Sudley Estate, a small public park in Liverpool. Our mission is community health, wellbeing and play through nature.

Since 2017 we’ve worked with the local community to bring the previously abandoned Victorian walled garden back to life. The garden is maintained by a team of volunteers, and enables urban connection to nature through forest school, therapeutic horticulture, nature therapy, community herbalism and much, much more! Most of our work is free, or low cost: we believe that financial hardship should not be a barrier to engagement with the natural world. We target the vast majority of our funded work towards people experiencing special educational needs, disabilities, long term health conditions or adverse experiences.

To find out more about what we do, and how you can join in, visit the About Us and What’s On sections of this website.

In 2025, we opened The Changing Rooms Therapy and Wellbeing Centre, a low-carbon retrofit of the old derelict changing rooms building (previously Sudley Estate’s animal husbandry building) creating a calming and restorative space for wellbeing and health. The Changing Rooms is part of the wider social enterprise, and any profits will support our therapeutic work in the walled garden.

Our ethos across the whole of the organisation is strongly centred around the environment and the protection of nature. We do not use damaging chemicals and pursue a permaculture approach to our work. We take the effect of our actions on nature into account across all our work and focus on the principles of people, planet and social and environmental justice.

If you’re able to support the work of Growing Sudley with a donation, to help keep our events and activities accessible to all, you can donate via our Justgiving page.

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We can’t wait to see you soon!