About the Granby Winter Garden

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If you don’t know about the Granby Winter Garden, this is the place Granby people decided to make for themselves. It is a kind of culmination of all the community-led activity that got most of the empty homes in Granby Four Streets restored and lived in again.

Two empty houses were in poorer condition than the rest and would have cost us more than we could afford to turn them back into homes again. But we managed to raise enough other kinds of funding to knock the two houses together, put a glass roof on them, and create a beautiful indoor garden and meeting venue – a resource for our community, owned by our community. 

The idea is that it brings the guerilla gardening the people here have long done on their streets into an inside gathering space as well. It can be used for workshops, events, artist residencies and social gatherings as well as a shared space for gardening. It has a ‘spare room,’ kitchen and accessible bathroom. The interiors, like the 10 House Project, have also been installed with ceramics by Granby Workshop.

The Winter Garden was opened in March 2019, with the garden designed and planted by the gardener in residence Andrea Ku. It was made possible by the support of Arts Council England, The Trusthouse Charitable Foundation, PH Holt Foundation, The Granada Foundation, The People’s Health Trust, Veolia Environmental Trust, The Elizabeth Rathbone Charitable Trust and the Co-operative Foundation. The Finnis Scott Foundation and the Stanley Smith (UK) Horticultural Trust supported establishing and equipping the garden. What seemed impossible blue-sky thinking, their support made happen – and so our thanks go to all.