Food growing on prescription
This report highlights the findings of a short piece of research undertaken with community gardens and food growing projects in London, to create a snapshot of how Social Prescribing is perceived, how garden leaders are or want to be engaging with these services and how to overcome the barriers to more people being referred to garden-based activities.
Report contents
- Executive summary
- Headlines
- Background
- Method of research
- Respondents
- Types of community gardens / projects
- Garden activities
- Findings
- Awareness and perceptions of Social Prescribing
- Engagement with referral services
- Opportunities for engagement with SP
- Barriers to engagement with SP
- Resourcing social prescribing
- Ways to increase contact and referrals
- Conclusions
- Recommendations
- Local SP services/ VCS/ local groups
- GLA (in partnership with Capital Growth or local networks)
- NHS
- Appendices
- Survey Questions
- Key graphs from survey
- List of interviewees
Download a summary version of this report
Capital Growth: Connecting a network of London growers.
Sustain
The Green House
244-254 Cambridge Heath Road
London E2 9DA
020 3559 6777
sustain@sustainweb.org
Our mission is to catalyse systemic change in the UK’s food and farming system – securing a healthy, fair, and sustainable future for all people, nature and a stable climate.
© Sustain 2026
Registered charity (no. 1018643)
Data privacy & cookies
Icons by Icons8
