Category: Community

      The Dartmouth Pyramid Greenhouse has been awarded £20,000 from the People’s Postcode Lottery in 2019 enabling DGP to pay for the glass. A previous award from the PPL in 2017 enabled us to  pay for the detailed designs and prepare the site. With funds raised from the local community we are nearly […]

In summer 2018 cadets from Britannia Royal Naval College worked with Eddie Church and his staff and volunteers from DGP to improve the raised beds at the potager in the Dartmouth Community Garden. The old timbers were removed and replaced with new oak sleepers which will allow access by people with mobility issues. The work […]

In 2018 DGP replanted some of the raised beds known as the ‘capstan beds’ along the South Embankment. The old cordylines were past their best and their roots made planting  around them difficult so they were removed by South Hams District Council. DGP added new compost and a selection of palm trees, agapanthus and other salt […]

Cadets from the Britannia Royal Naval College worked with volunteers from Dartmouth Green Partnerships in July to clear parts of the Castle Estate which had become choked with weeds. Visitors and residents who walk out to the Castle will have notice how weeds had infested the undergrowth and almost obscured the wall. Even the sign […]

Volunteers from  Dartmouth Green Partnerships worked hard to get the town’s displays for 2018 planted up. Dartmouth Brownies joined us to plant half of the 120 hanging baskets we create. (Thanks to the Dolphin for providing some refreshments on planting day.) Volunteers  planted the rest, each with a mix of richly coloured apricot and red begonias and […]

A very moving ceremony was held in Royal Avenue Gardens on  June 6 2017 to commemorate the preparations for D-Day when Dartmouth was filled with American troops. The site was selected by the Americans and is the only such memorial in Europe. DGP volunteers helped prepare and plant the site.        BRNC turns the town […]