Dartmouth Green Partnerships
Charity No.1164582
Dartmouth Green Partnerships is a charity run by its members which includes a team of volunteers who create and look after many floral displays and green spaces in Dartmouth. We promote horticultural excellence and encourage community involvement in the work we do. We show by example and good practice how environmental awareness and sustainability are essential for the future.
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NEWS
Dartmouth Green Partnerships wins the Green Flag Community Award 2026 for the fifth year
Dartmouth Green Partnerships is celebrating after receiving a Green Flag Award for the Dartmouth Community Garden and Greenhouse situated on the riverside of the town. DGP representative, Stevie Rogers, said: ‘The Green Flag Award is the international quality mark for parks and green spaces. Winning it is testament to the hard work and dedication of our team of volunteers. Dartmouth is the only volunteer run community garden in Devon to win the Green Flag Community Award which recognises quality sites managed by voluntary and community groups’.
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It comes as the internationally recognised standard for parks and green spaces celebrates its 30th year. Paul Todd MBE, Green Flag Award Manager at Keep Britain Tidy, said “DGP have shown what can be achieved when parks are properly supported and managed. As we celebrate 30 years of the Green Flag Award, we want every community to have access to green spaces like this that are safe, welcoming and maintained to a high standard.’
The Green Flag Award scheme, managed by environmental charity Keep Britain Tidy under contract from the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government, recognises and rewards well-managed parks and green spaces, setting the benchmark standard for the management of green spaces across the United Kingdom and around the world.
The Dartmouth Community Garden and Greenhouse on the riverfront at the junction with Mayor’s Avenue is the heart of our operations, where we have our weekly working meetings every Monday morning and hold events for people to gain horticultural knowledge and skills. We aim for it to be a Centre of Horticultural Excellence. The Greenhouse was erected in August 2022 after 7 years of fundraising.
We look after the Dartmouth Community Garden with its potager of raised beds of vegetables and flowers, and Mediterranean beds where the emphasis is on sustainable planting. We have also created a Mayflower rose bed. Our cabin gives us sheltered space for storage.
We plant seasonal displays each year in troughs, containers and floral boats along the riverfront forming a floral walk. There are narcissus and tulips for winter displays and plants for spring and summer from local growers. As well as seeds these are brought on in the greenhouse. They are paid for by funds we raise through sponsors.
We plant around 50 hanging baskets in the town during the summer. The Brownies help us to plant us plant these up in late May/June, after which they are displayed mainly around the Boat Float.
Each year local schools plant sunflower seeds at the greenhouse, where we look after them until they are large enough to plant outside Beth’s cafe at the corner of Coronation Park.
We plant the baskets along the Butterwalk and the 2-tier planter there, plus the troughs and baskets around the Boat Float.
We also plant more than 50 troughs and containers along the North and South Embankments, Newcomen Road, and Bayards Cove, creating our Floral Walk for all to enjoy.
We created and look after the Anchor Bed at the bottom of College Way, the Welcome beds and boats at the top of town, the corner beds of Coronation Park by the Boat Park and the Higher Ferry and the floral boat, plus the Capstan beds on the South Embankment and Manor Gardens on Southtown. We created a ‘river of daffodils’ along College Way, a welcome burst of spring colour.
