Corporate Volunteering
Creating healthier teams, thriving communities, and greener urban areas — one volunteering day at a time.
If you are looking for activity to support your corporate social responsibility program or have corporate volunteering days, gardening at the Westway Trust is the perfect option. We have a programme of projects between April and October as well as many different gardens and green spaces to maintain.
Our Corporate Volunteering Days offer a unique opportunity for businesses to combine hands-on team-building with environmental impact.
Your employees will spend a day or half a day getting stuck into activities like wildflower lawn planting and pollinator surveying, improving biodiversity in one of the UK’s most nature depleted urban areas.
Whether you’re looking to strengthen team bonds, enhance employee wellbeing or demonstrate leadership in sustainability and community engagement, Postcode Gardeners offer a meaningful, measurable way to meet your ESG goals.
With flexible packages, streamlined invoicing, and compelling impact reporting, we make it easy for you to create lasting change.
We cater for all levels of ability and no previous gardening experience is needed. You can come for a full or a half day, and we’ll provide expert facilitators, tools, materials, plants, PPE and refreshments. You’ll get a full colour report with photos to commemorate your day.
What your teams will be doing
- Planting shrubs and perennial plants – Getting their hands in the soil by planting native perennial plants (plants that live for several years) to enhance local biodiversity.
- Planting and maintaining wildflower lawns that attract bees, butterflies, and other insects.
- Pollinator surveys and bio-blitzes – Take part in citizen science by conducting pollinator surveys and bio-blitzes. These are fun, hands-on activities where teams work together to identify as many species of plants, pollinators and insects as possible within a set time frame.
- Restoring urban green spaces – Bring life back to neglected urban areas by removing weeds and invasive species and planting native vegetation
- Interactive learning -Throughout the day, expert Postcode Gardeners will share practical tips on gardening, sustainability, and climate resilience that attendees can take back to work and home.
- Supporting healing – Create spaces that help residents of North Kensington on their journey towards healing the hurt of the Grenfell Tower disaster.
Business benefits
Supports your sustainability and ESG goals
- Real, measurable impact on nature restoration: Your teams will be working in communities experiencing the most environmental deprivation, helping to address lack of green space, air pollution, and improving biodiversity.
- Meet the UN Sustainable Development Goals SDG 13: Climate Action, SDG 15: Life on Land and SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities
Enhance brand image and reputation
- Demonstrate leadership in environmental and social responsibility, boosting your business’s public image as an environmental and nature conscious entity.
Attract and retain talent
- Engaging in meaningful, purpose-driven activities increases employee satisfaction and retention while attracting talent aligned with your values.
Team productivity and remote collaboration
- These sessions provide an excellent opportunity to bring remote and hybrid teams together in a physical setting. Working outdoors and engaging in meaningful tasks strengthens interpersonal relationships and fosters collaboration, improving team productivity.
Strengthening community connections
- Building lasting community connections and strengthen your reputation in the community
What your employees will experience
- Hands-on nature restoration activities: From planting trees, planting up wildflower lawns or sowing ‘mini-meadows’, creating new public gardens or places to grow edibles and pollinator surveying, your employees will get a buzz from getting their hands dirty and bringing back nature.
- Connect with communities: Work alongside local residents to create greener estates, fostering a sense of shared purpose and pride.
- Enhanced wellbeing and mental health: Outdoor, nature-based activities have proven benefits for mental health. Employees will benefit from reduced stress, boosted mood, and a sense of calm – research shows that 90% of people feel more relaxed after time spent in nature.
- Learning & growth opportunities: Volunteers will learn about sustainability and ecological practices from Postcode Gardeners, returning to the workplace to implement environmentally friendly changes, both personally and professionally. Have fun!
- Stronger team collaboration and fun Working together outdoors builds stronger bonds between team members. These sessions not only improve teamwork and leadership skills but are also fun and enjoyable, making them memorable team-building experiences.
Why Garden with us?
The UK is now one of the most nature-depleted nations in the world. Friends of the Earth research shows that 20% of people in England live in nature-deprived areas. This is not only devastating for ecosystems, but it has a very real impact on people’s mental and physical health. By choosing to a team volunteering day with us, your company ensures that greening efforts in North Kensington continue to thrive while aligning with sustainability goals.
Our volunteer Gardening programme is an initiative created by Friends of the Earth in partnership with The Co-operative Bank, and delivered by local partners. The initiative supports nature-depleted communities to hire expert Postcode Gardeners to bring back nature. We work with local residents to coordinate the greening plan for the postcode, do some gardening themselves, run weekly volunteer sessions and teach volunteers gardening skills so that everyone can dig in and create greener streets.
The Notting Dale project is delivered through the Westway Trust alongside our communities in North Kensington. Corporate volunteering days with businesses like yours are crucial in sustaining this project. Your contributions not only make an immediate impact on nature but also help generate the necessary income to keep this effort going for the long-term.
Programme Fee
Westway Trust has recently made the difficult decision to introduce a fee for corporate volunteering gardening days. We understand that releasing staff from their usual roles is already an investment for your organisation. However, these days also require significant resources from our charity team to plan, prepare, and deliver activities safely, while ensuring your employees have a rewarding and well-supported experience.
Our charges also make some of our Gardening projects free for local residents financially sustainable.
| Location | Session Type | Session Feed (up to 10 people) | Additional participants (over 10) |
| Notting Dale, London W10/11 | Half day | £450 | £40 per person |
| Notting Dale, London W10/11 | Full day | £750 | £60 per person |
What’s included:
- Our expertise in community and ecological gardening
- Session facilitator(s)
- Session plan
- Refreshments including meeting dietary requirements (plant milks, vegan snacks) • Gardening tools, gloves, boots, plants etc.
- Full risk assessment
- Health and safety protocols
- Public Liability Insurance cover
- Briefing on why the work is vital to helping the environment and local community
- Colour ‘contribution and impact’ report with team ‘action’ photos
- And a fun team day out!
Corporate Volunteering Season Ticket
For businesses looking to make a sustained impact whilst reducing the administrative burden, we offer a Corporate Volunteering Season Pass.
| Location | Session Type | Session Feed (up to 10 people) | Additional participants (over 10) | Season ticket (4 sessions) | Season ticket (6 sessions) |
| Notting Dale, London W10/11 | Half day | £450 | £40 per person | £1,440 (20% discount) | £1,890 (30% discount) |
| Notting Dale, London W10/11 | Full day | £750 | £60 per person | £2,400 (20% discount) | £3,149 (30% discount) |
The pass offers companies a streamlined way to engage in ongoing, impactful environmental action.
By committing to multiple sessions, businesses can track their progress, enhance employee engagement, and create a compelling, year-round CSR narrative.
Book four or more volunteering days in a year at a reduced rate, all invoiced in one go for ease and efficiency—saving you time while boosting your team’s connection to nature and their community.
Other ways your business can partner with our Gardening team
- Hackathon days: Employees can use their business expertise to solve challenges faced by the Postcode Gardener project, such as developing their fee-paying services that help financially sustain the community greening work.
- ‘Biodiversity Champions’: Employees can volunteer regularly to support Postcode Gardener projects monitor biodiversity improvements, and track changes in pollinator numbers like bees, butterflies, and worms.
- Climate-resilient gardening workshops: Postcode Gardeners could deliver workshops at your offices to teach employees and stakeholders about sustainable, climateresilient gardening practices that they can implement both at work and home. • Create a pollinator station at your office: Postcode Gardeners could install a pollinator garden or biodiversity station on your premises, enabling your teams to continue to contribute to nature restoration at work.
- Sponsor a green space – Show your long-term commitment to nature restoration by sponsoring a public space from £250+ that the Postcode Gardener project has greened.
Book a corporate volunteering day to get your team hands-on with positive climate action
Contact Liz Moxon on 07936 945 860 or postcodegardener@westway.org to find out more, including whether a discounted rate would make the day more accessible.