Norwich Eco Hub

Norwich is a fantastic city for groups working to address the Earth crisis and promote better living and taking action to tackle the environmental challenges we face and inspire others to get involved.

These groups often host inspiring talks, community actions, and events that bring people together to learn and have a positive impact.

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Norwich Community Gardens Festival

Open Gardens for Community-Maintained Green Spaces

The Norwich Community Gardens Festival brought together volunteers, nature lovers, and local residents for a weekend dedicated to celebrating the city’s green spaces. Taking place on Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 April 2025, the festival showcased over 25 community-maintained green spaces, from woods to verges, from Grade II listed parks to allotments.

Visitors could explore the festival map to find their nearest community garden and visit it, or go on a self-guided walk or cycle ride across the city to see more. In some of the gardens taking part, they were welcomed by volunteers from the community groups who showed them around and even hosted special activities.

Highlights included guided tours of Grapes Hill Community Garden and the UEA campus ecology, learning about growing food sustainably at Marlpit Community Garden with hands-on activities for children organised by Norwich Science Festival, and going on a bug hunt in Wensum Park.

For those looking to do some gardening that weekend, they could get involved with one of the newly established community green spaces: NR5 Community Hub who started working on a bright sensory garden on the raised bed outside the West Earlham Dental Health Practice, The Feed’s Community Garden at Jubilee Park who were preparing new beds for fruit and vegetables, or Mousehold Community Garden, a new community allotment off Gertrude Road.

The 2025 festival was organised with support from Norwich City Council and we are hoping it will become a yearly event.

Norwich Unity Hub

A community for people, place and planet under a shared roof

Norwich Unity Hub identifies unused buildings in Norwich and repurposes them for shared use by local charities, CICs, community groups and arttists.

Would you make use of such a space?

Re-imagine Norwich

Social foundation
The safe and just space for humanity
Ecological ceiling

We are inspired by this framework and its uses in Norwich.

Would you like to get involved?

Our Power

Norfolk Communities Act on Energy

New initiative Our Power partners with groups in Norwich and Norfolk and collaborates with trusted community members to empower people to reduce energy usage and decarbonise homes. This initiative aims to lower energy bills, provide greater control over energy consumption, and support our planet.

Homes in Norwich, much like elsewhere in the UK, often suffer from poor insulation and rely on gas boilers, which significantly contribute to Norwich’s carbon footprint. As a result, higher energy bills are impacting health, well-being, and personal finances.

Our Power aim is to enhance home energy efficiency in various local communities and empower them to manage their energy usage. While full home retrofitting remains unaffordable for most, communities have the potential to save money by acting collectively—through bulk buying or using community buildings to generate energy.