New for 2025-2026!!. Gardens group selected as a Co-op good cause. We need your help please !!
From October 2025 until late in 2026, you can help us keep making a difference. If you shop at the Co-op locally, you can elect to have our Gardens
Group as your nominated good cause. As a member, you get great offers and discounts, and at the same time, can help us raise vital funds to sustain what our lovely volunteers do to keep
Broadstairs looking beautiful for us all to enjoy.
If you'd like to become a member and help us raise important funds to sustain our work, below is a link to sign up. It's quick and easy, and we'll
be so very grateful for your support.
If you do decide to sign up between now and 15th November, Town Team get a chance of an additional £5 to go into our funding pot!!
https://membership.coop.co.uk/new-registration
We love Broadstairs when it's all in bloom and if you love gardening why not volunteer some time to help with some of the public sites around the town that Town Team volunteers have taken
on? It's lovely to work together on our patches and see them take shape. Get in touch if you'd like us to keep you posted of dates when
the Town Team gardeners are next tending one of their patches and looking for help.
We maintain multiple sites in and around Broadstairs as volunteers.
- Albion Street Car Park
- Louisa Bay Access Road
- Crampton Tower Bank
- The 'Library Bank' and Station Area
- Queen's Gardens
- Ramsgate Road
- Wrotham Crescent Community Garden
- The 'Lavender Bank' at the station
If you would like to join one of the teams who work on any of the sites, just drop us a line here.
Check on our Facebook page for images of our
wonderful garden volunteers in action and any open events we have planned.
More awards and celebrations for our fabulous volunteers. March 2025
The recent Thanet Community Champions awards were held on Wednesday, 12th March at The Pavillion here in Broadstairs.
The afternoon was a celebration of selflessness, resilience, and dedication to making Thanet a better place for all. The event was proudly funded by the UK Shared Prosperity Fund, reinforcing the
commitment to strengthening local communities.
We are so very proud of everyone that volunteers to make Broadstairs even more beautiful.
Town Team as a whole, for all their activities won :
'Thanet Community Champions Pride in Place Award'
The Gardens Group specifically were winners as was our Chair
Cerificates and a trophy will now be proudly displayed..
Thank You all.
We need your help please. Call out for new volunteers to help with gardening.
Celebrating the success of our gardening volunteers. September 2023
For the third year running our volunteers our fabulous Garden volunteers have had another triumph!!
We’re so lucky to have such dedicated and enthusiastic people who live and love it here. The judge from the RHS South & Southeast ‘In Bloom’ awards obviously
agreed - even though her assessment was done on a very, very wet day back in June!
Our entries this year topped even last year’s accolades.
The scores for anyone that follows our progress since we first entered :
Broadway Banks and Station area – ‘Outstanding’ : 96/100
The fabulous Louisa Bay beds – again ‘Outstanding’ – 94/100
Albion Street Car Park – yet another ‘Outstanding’ 94/100 Ramsgate Road ‘ Thriving’ 74/100 – (which considering they are still developing the wildflower area this
is still a significant achievement).
A group went to RHS Wisley for the awards ceremony. A special mention for Sue Wainwright who heads up the team for her 1 of only 2 national special 'Community
Champion' awards too!
We also hosted a celebration tea in Pierremont Hall too and heard more about the wonderful, local Dan Cooper Garden
Environmental and Wildlife initiative 2022 and beyond
Broadstairs Town Team have been looking after 8 community garden spaces for over 10 years now.
Our focus for 2023 and beyond is to ensure that all the gardens encourage wildlife, are drought resistant and have plants that not just like it here, but mitigate pollution and thrive.
The sustainability of all the spaces that our wonderful volunteer gardeners look after is of paramount importance to us.
That's where you might be able to help us. Even the smallest donations will all add up, and therefore will enable us to buy relevant plants, ensure they are well fed and nurtured and provide
conditions and an environment where wildlife not just like it but love it, and make it their home. We have set up a Crowfdunder page specifically for this purpose and even small donations
will help us sustain all the spaces going forward for us all to enjoy. If you are interested in making a regular donation to help, we''d be delighted too.
Please email and we can give you more information.Thank You
Gardens groups and the Royal Horticultural Society
Our first entry into the RHS 'It's Your Neighbourhood' scheme was in 2021.
The efforts of our amazing volunteers were rewarded with incredible feedback for our first foray.
For example, Louisa Bay was a new site to us in 2021, and the judges deemed this brand new garden to be 'Thriving' as was our wonderful more established 'Library Bank' an extraordinary
achievement and a testament to community gardening.
'It's Your Neighbourhood' '23 plans.
We have exciting plans in development for our entry into the RHS scheme again this year.
We'll be sharing our progress and calls out for additional volunteer help on our Facebook page. However, if you'd like to be added to our mailing list for updates
please email info@broadstairstownteam.org.uk
RHS 'It's Your Neighbourhood' 2022
2022 was our second year venturing into the world of "In Bloom".
The Town Team Garden Group entered all the eight gardens we maintain in Broadstairs into
the category “It’s Your Neighbourhood”. Our entries were assessed in July, by none other than Peter Holman the chairman ofSouth and South East in Bloom. After months of eagerly awaiting our results a small group of volunteers attended the Awards ceremony
in Farnham on 23 September.
To our delight we received Outstandingresults.
Saturday 8 October was a day to down tools and celebrate our gardening success
with volunteers and sponsors.
Celebrations over, we are now working hard to plan and turn our attention to
the 2023 entries.
Gardens volunteer gathering and Celebration of RHS awards. October 2022
