Gardening at Bell House
About Us
Bell House is surrounded by beautiful gardens including a walled vegetable garden.
Our garden volunteers meet weekly on Saturday and Thursday mornings, 9:30 - 11:30am and Tuesday afternoons, 2.00 - 4.00pm, and end each session with a chat over coffee. We garden organically to support wildlife and promote gardening as a positive activity for mental and physical well-being.
Join Us
Everyone is welcome, from complete novices to gardening experts. We invite new volunteers to come to one of our Open Days on the first Saturday of the month to meet us and learn more about the charity, house and garden.
If you are interested in joining the gardening group please follow this link to our volunteering form. For any queries please email [email protected].
Latest Garden Blogs
Welcome! In this Summer newsletter we celebrate 10 years since Bell House opened its doors as a charity. Here’s just a few glimpses of what we have achieved so far.
The four seasons of 2024 have flashed by! We are so excited to bring you our Spring quarterly newsletter with four new Bell House articles which we really hope you enjoy reading.
Welcome to our Summer newsletter - it’s time to tell you what’s been going on…
The four seasons of 2023 have flashed by! We are so excited to bring you our second Spring quarterly newsletter with four new Bell House articles which we really hope you enjoy reading.
Welcome to the fourth of our seasonal newsletters. In this Winter edition, you’ll find a selection of recent news and updates from Bell House, which we hope you will enjoy!
Welcome to the second of our seasonal newsletters. In this Summer edition, you’ll find a selection of recent news and updates from Bell House, which we hope you will enjoy!
We're excited to launch our new quarterly newsletter. It’s a chance to share a few short stories which we hope you both enjoy and find interesting.
This month’s volunteer profile is a little different, as we meet Annie, who looks after Bell House’s bees.
This month, Ellie, tells us about the work she does in the garden and the new initiatives she’s helping out with.
This month it’s the turn of Graeme to answer our questions. Graeme is a member of Bell House’s Steering Group and does plenty more too, including running the Dyslexia After-School Club.
Georgian gardens were for showing off. Gardening was an illustration of your taste and status, and merchants like Thomas Wright aimed to copy, in miniature form, the larger estates of the landed gentry.
When Thomas Wright built Bell House in 1767, the garden was extremely important to him: it was a symbol of his wealth and status but it was also a refuge from his busy life as a City merchant.
Gardens are wonderful for helping us all to feel happier and more relaxed. Simply being in a garden can alleviate stress and anxiety. Gardening as a physical activity releases endorphins, helping us to feel good about ourselves. From a pot-plant to a window-box, to the Bell House garden, being next to nature is good for us.
We welcome you to explore our garden in the heart of Dulwich.
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We welcome you to explore our garden in the heart of Dulwich.
Donation | In-person | Book here
We welcome you to explore our garden in the heart of Dulwich.
Donation | In-person | Book here
We welcome you to explore our garden in the heart of Dulwich.
Donation | In-person | Book here