At the Islington in Bloom 2025 Awards Ceremony at The Charterhouse, Olden Garden won Gold and 3rd Place for Best Community Garden. We were also thrilled to win the Nancy Pattenden Wildlife Award. We also received Silver Gilt for Best Edible Garden. Huge thank you to Ruby and Caroline and all our volunteer gardeners for making this happen!

Awards for Best Children’s Planting were given to two of the primary school gardens managed by our professional gardener Caroline. See all the winning entries here.

Organised through the BIG Alliance, a team of volunteers from the City of London Corporation helped to rebuild a path between our orchard and the vegetable garden.

Volunteers have removed the remnants of our previous turf and the top few inches of soil including plastic mesh from the turf. We will add leaf mould, manure and compost and sow a seed mix designed as shade, drought and foot traffic tolerant. Our new lawn will emerge in the spring.

Thank you to the BIG Alliance for organising a volunteer group from Sage Publishing. They harvested fruit and moved great quantities of donated bark chippings to our woodland paths.