Sustainable communities
Sustainable communities resources
The resources in this section have been made available to support the hundreds of volunteers and their coordinators, delivering Garden Organic's Master Composter, Master Gardener, Growing Buddies, food poverty and wider waste projects around the country.
The resources can be downloaded to your computer by clicking on the relevant titles below. You can then choose to keep for reference, print for an event or, in the case of the slideshows, use to provide structure to your talk or presentation.
Volunteer General:
- Volunteer Expense claim form 2018
- How to access the members area
- How to take photos
- Better Impact guide for Volunteers
- Volunteer Agreement
- Writing a Press Release
Information leaflets, flyers and factsheets:
- Why compost at home
- Yes/No Green & Brown A5 leaflet
- Garden Organic - Composting Guide
- Composting The right method for you
- Rats and compost (A quick guide)
- Composting Food Waste
- Bokashi REVISED 2018
- Green Cone REVISED 2018
- Green Johanna REVISED 2018
- Hotbin REVISED 2018
- Wormery REVISED 2018
- DIY Gardening Making a wormery
- DIY Gardening Wooden Compost Bin
- Compost Creature ID
- The Creatures in your compost bin
- Master Composter in your area
- What is a Master Composter Scheme
- Master Composter Scheme - The Impacts
- GO Compostable REVISED 2020
- Caring for your DIY wormery
Posters
- Composting - Greens and Browns Poster
- Composting - Yes and No Poster
- Home Composting
- Delve into wormeries
Activities:
- Compost activity sheet
- Compost creatures wordsearch
- Food chain A3 poster
- Top of the heap card game
- Worms and ladders game
- A worms world session plan
- A worms world worksheet
- Compost timeline activity
- Compost timeline cards
- Millionaire compost quiz with session - adults
- Millionaire compost quiz with session - children
- Millionaire wormery quiz with session - children
- Millionaire virtual compost bin quiz
Garden Organic General:
- Principles of Organic Gardening - Introduction
- Principles of Organic Gardening - 1. Build & Maintain Soil Health
- Principles of Organic Gardening - 2. Encourage Biodiversity
- Principles of Organic Gardening - 3. Use Resources Responsibly
- Principles of Organic Gardening - 4. Avoid Use of Harmful Chemicals
- Principles of Organic Gardening - 5. A Healthy Growing Area
- Code of professional standards 2016
- Data Protection Policy
- Health & Safety Policy Statement 2017
- IT and Information Security Policy
- Severe Weather Policy
- Mission and Values document
- History of Garden Organic