About Us
Edinburgh Garden Partners has been creating garden partnerships across the city since 2011, connecting garden owners with volunteers looking for a space to grow.
Today our aim is to nurture a sense of belonging and strengthen communities in Edinburgh by creating garden partnerships that connect volunteers to older people in their community. It is the shared interest in gardening and the exchange of skills, knowledge and life experience that make these partnerships so special and rewarding for everyone involved.
Our Vision
We strive for sustainable, connected communities where everyone lives well and has space to grow.
Our Mission
We are a community organisation active across Edinburgh.
We aim to strengthen communities by creating relationships between people who want a space to grow and those who have garden space to share.
We connect people of different ages, abilities, and backgrounds to build a shared gardening movement through the exchange of skills, knowledge, and life experience.
Our Values
We are inclusive and strive to bring people together in a spirit of shared endeavour.
We are nurturing of gardens, of relationships and of ourselves.
We are open to new ideas, new ways of working, and in the way we communicate.
We are collaborative and believe that our organisation, partnerships and communities are stronger when we work together.
We are resourceful in our gardens and in our organisation, making the most of what we have and sharing our time, knowledge and skills.
We care about the environment and are committed to promoting sustainable practices and respect for our planet.
Our Strategy
In October 2025 the EGP board and staff team gathered to review our strategy. With changes amongst the board and staff members, we felt it was important to review and reaffirm our commitment to our mission, vision and values. To deliver against our mission, we will continue to structure our work around 5 key workstreams. The workstreams will develop the quality, depth and strength of the work we do, and are used to frame our board meeting agendas and reporting structures. The revised workstreams are:
Our Workstreams
Sustain our garden partnerships, nurturing the breadth and quality of relationships between owners and volunteers within these
Develop new ways for people to contribute to and collaborate with EGP, increasing the breadth of volunteers and strengthening partnerships.
Prioritise making our work more accessible and inclusive by creating ways for people of all different ages, abilities and backgrounds to get involved with our work.
Share and promote the work of EGP to strengthen our presence within the political, policy and statutory environments in Edinburgh, as well as across the volunteer and community gardening sector
Build further resilience into EGP, including the background processes, governance structures and finances
