Welcome to
Rooted Chippenham!

We cultivate welcoming community spaces to grow food, boost biodiversity, reduce waste & share skills - creating a more resilient, sustainable future for Chippenham.

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Rooted Chippenham community garden

Get involved!

We organise a variety of spaces and projects - run by the community, for the community. Explore below to find out how you can get involved:

Community
garden

The heart of Rooted - help us grow fruit, veg and a connected community!

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Community
orchard

Visit our orchard or help us provide locally grown fruit for generations to come!

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Community tree nursery

Grab a native tree for your garden to boost biodiversity, or lend us a hand to grow them!

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Rooted Chippenham community bat walks

Community
bat walks

Join us for a sunset safari and discover our incredible nocturnal wildlife!

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Rooted Chippenham community fridge

Community
fridge

Coming soon! Help us prevent local food waste in Chippenham and grab a free meal!

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Upcoming
events

Browse all our upcoming events, including garden meet-ups, wildlife walks and more!

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Latest updates from our Instagram…

Lovely meet up at the Community Garden today 🌞
Stunning wildflowers and insects at Lords Mead Community Orchard today! 🦋🦗🌼🌸 A recent survey at the site revealed over 30 different wildflower and grass species - and the insects really love them! The long meadow grass around our fruit trees is
Our brilliant volunteers Debs and Kerry ran a free bird feeder making session this morning 🌞 as well as making the feeders there was soup, bread, and welshcakes to share as well. Big thanks to @wiltshirescrapstore for the generous donation of bird
Today everyone came together to help plant our new Community Orchard at Lords Mead, with the help of the amazing team at Freely Fruity! It was a fantastic morning, with the community getting stuck in to make this brilliant project a reality. Lots of
Lords Mead Community Orchard 🍎 Planting Day 🍐 Come along and help establish a brand new community orchard right here in Lords Mead. We will be playing over 30 fruit trees including varieties of apple, pear, quince, plum, and more! Whether you sta
BOOKING NOW!!  Bats in the Wiltshire landscapes - FREE talk, seeds and trees! We're really excited to host a fantastic talk by Gareth Harris of Wiltshire Bat Group on the incredible bats in our county - from widespread species to important pop
Beautiful 2 hours today up at the community garden. We got onion sets, garlic, and broad beans sown. We also continued work.on our new brassica shelter. A few rain showers didn't stop us, and what a brilliant way to get outside midweek 😍 The gard
Very productive morning at the garden today! Got the wood chip paths topped up, loads of weeding and litter picking, plus we got the frame of our new brassica polytunnel up 🥦 Heading back on Wednesday to plant out onion sets, garlics, broad beans a

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We’re run entirely by volunteers and welcome donations to support our community projects. Any donation, no matter how small, makes a real difference to us and the work we do to benefit the residents of Chippenham. Thank you!

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