Global Generation

Dining in the Garden, our supper club series is back for 2026! 🍽️ Eat a delicious menu prepared by a chef, with a wine pairing, in our beautiful community garden space after hours, all while helping to raise funds for our charity. We kick off in June with chef @johnny_kiernan who will be taking over Paper Garden with a bespoke menu of locally sourced produce and provisions! In his own words: "Supper clubs are a chance for me to cook the kind of food I really love to eat - thoughtful, ingredient-led dishes, served in a relaxed, welcoming way." Tickets are £80, if you bring a friend and include three courses, wine pairing and a welcome cocktail! Paper Garden June 19, 6 p.m.

We are hiring an Events & Communications Senior Coordinator as a maternity cover! ⁠ ⁠ Are you experienced at delivering interesting community and public events? Skilled at managing budgets, staff and volunteers ? Savvy with social media and know how to use multiple channels to grow an audience? We're looking for someone to:⁠ ⁠ - plan and deliver workshops, events and private hires⁠ ⁠ - oversee comms & marketing; update our website and social media channels⁠ and track impact⁠ ⁠ - maintain community and internal partnerships to deliver collaborative events ⁠ ⁠ Deadline: Sunday, May 17 2026, 11:59 p.m.⁠ Location: Across all three gardens⁠ Start Date: August 2026⁠ Compensation: £34,000⁠ ⁠ Head to our website for more information and application details!

We're winners of the Inspire Future Generations Awards 2025 in the Not for profit Organisation category. ⁠ ⁠ These awards recognise projects that demonstrate excellence, creativity, care, and a genuine commitment to engaging young people in shaping the spaces around them and we are delighted to be in such good company!⁠ ⁠ The judges wrote that we have a, "really innovative programme that⁠ doesn’t shy away from risk taking, and with a great legacy with sustainability at its heart. It stands out for its approach and replicable toolkits." ⁠ ⁠ As a youth environmental education charity co-creating green spaces across London, we truly believe young people of all ages have a role to play in the built environment and we have learned so much along the way. ⁠ ⁠ Scroll through to see some photos of young people across all our sites from brickmaking at Triangle Site, to building cordwood walls at Paper Garden, designing our Floating Garden, getting stuck into planting, ideating and woodworking. 🔨🌱⁠ ⁠ Photo Credit: 1: Jan Kattein 2: @Ned_Bouverie 3-7 : Global Generation

Our Paper Garden Generators are recruiting for 2026. Go camping, learn about woodworking, build a pond, grow food and get involved in your local area. Open to ages 11-17, activities will be based out of Paper Garden in South East London! Have fun and get work experience and hours towards your Duke of Edinburgh ! Head to our website to learn more. #GGGenerators

Four years of the Floating Garden in Kings Cross ! 🌱 To celebrate our birthday, we had a daytime party with watercolour and crafts followed by a sunset jam session with @communicateproject and a botanical cocktail bar. Thanks to all of you who came down to paint, watch the birds and sip a drink or two! It was such a success we're already planning for future summer parties, but until then join us for Twilight Gardening or our Pepperpot party in June!

🌿 Interwoven: I, We and The Planet 🗓️ 9 June 2026 🕕 6:00pm - 7:30pm 📍 Rudolf Steiner House, NW1 @rudolf.steiner.house How can we feel more connected - to ourselves, to each other, and to the natural world? Join Global Generation for a hands-on workshop exploring these questions through their “I, We, The Planet” framework. Blending conversation, reflection, and making, the session invites you to slow down and think differently about what growth and change can look like - both personally and collectively. 🌱 Reflect on your relationship with nature and place 🧶 Take part in a collaborative weaving activity 🌍 Explore how small, local actions can shape wider change A gentle, interactive space to think, create, and connect. Limited spaces available. 🔗 Book + explore more via link in bio

Pepperpot is taking over the Floating Garden for a day party in June along the canal. 🎶 Pepperpot is a collaborative project of @djjjfrost and @djron_film , they will be playing a mix of genres and bringing on a range of selectors. Guaranteed good vibes from afternoon to evening. Come for a little - stay for a while! The party is free to attend but donations are welcome and tickets are a must. This is a fundraiser for the charity with a paid bar and delicious doubles by @chanetieats_ to keep you fuelled. Don't miss out! Sunday June 28 1 - 9 p.m. Floating Garden tickets online! This event is generously supported by Something Else Soundsystem, @earthackney and @greg_phizacklea

The sunshine is here at Paper Garden and it has been lovely to see the changes to the space as lots of plants come into bloom all at once! Did you know outside of our own educational programming that you can hire out the space for your own events and workshops? (In the last few weeks we've had community dinners, a kintsugi workshop, a birthday party, a permaculture course and more!) Details for venue hire on our website. We're booking up fast for the sunny season, don't miss out! 🌞

Celebrate four years of the Floating Garden with us this month! ⁠ ⁠ Moored on Regent's Canal, the Floating Garden has hosted school workshops, community gatherings, meetings, music nights and more. What a joy to have this space right in the heart of Kings Cross. ⁠ ⁠ We will open up the boat for an afternoon of family friendly nature activities, a plant sale and more and then in the evening we will have music and a bar with special botanical mocktails and cocktails made from our own fruit and herbal infusions! ⁠ ⁠ Come for the afternoon, the evening or both! Tickets are free, but help us manage numbers, make sure to book through our website!⁠ ⁠ Details:⁠ Floating Garden⁠ May 9 2026⁠ Afternoon: 2 - 5 p.m.⁠ Evening: 6 - 9 p.m.⁠

Paper Garden is one of our gardens co-created with community members and it is a thriving space for our educational programmes, local groups and schools to connect with and learn from nature. We call these our gardens of a thousand hands and we are building a permanent one in Kings Cross, our #TriangleSite. It has been three years since the completion of construction of the community classroom and although it is built directly on top of concrete, you can see how quickly nature establishes itself when you allow it to thrive. With edibles and flowering plants, insects and pollinators, our friendly chickens and more, there are so many parts to this garden to explore. Thanks to Kwesia @citygirlinnature and Seth for showcasing parts of the Paper Garden and stay tuned for more videos showing off our beautiful green oasis! We’re fundraising to support our next green space as part of the @biggiveorg ’s Earth Raise campaign, running this week from April 22-29! With your support we can - plant more trees and create more habitats - run paid traineeships for young people to learn green skills - continue to expand our free youth, school and community programming! Double the difference when you donate this week at the link in our bio! Can’t donate? Tell a friend or come along to our next volunteer day!

We’re part of Big Give’s @biggiveorg Earth Raise campaign starting tomorrow and running until April 29! From Wednesday, you will double the difference when you donate to us! 🌱⁠ ⁠ We’re co-creating a new green space in Kings Cross, launching this summer and we’re fundraising to:⁠ ⁠ - create new habitats like a forest garden, wildflower meadow and food growing spaces⁠ - run our free youth, community and school educational programming and events⁠ - continue our paid traineeship programme teaching green skills to young people aged 18-25⁠ ⁠ £5 becomes £10 and £10 becomes £20, all supporting local biodiversity, green corridors and urban nature connection!⁠ ⁠ Want to support? ⁠ - Head to the link in our bio and donate before April 29th to double your impact! ⁠ - Share this post or tell a friend!⁠ - Come along to an upcoming volunteer session and help make this garden a reality!⁠

It’s been a good few months since we left our site on Ossulston Street!🌿 During the six years we spent in the Somers Town location, we accumulated a vast amount of items, ranging from trees, plants, and outdoor furniture to large building structures and miscellaneous craft and gardening materials. With many of these items not yet at the end of their lifespan, it wasn’t a difficult decision for us to recognise that we wanted to give back to our local communities, who have supported us throughout the years. Our Big Give Away event became our way of doing so. As put by Robin Wall Kimmerer in The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World, “Abundance is fueled by constantly circulating materials, not wasting them.” The practice of circularity is a necessary part of building sustainable models of living. And it was this core ideal that we wanted to bring into practice during our move. So many pieces of the Story Garden have found new homes and life in organisations, groups, and schools, both locally in the Somers Town area (as well as wider London).💚 That being said, it definitely didn’t come without its challenges. Our Events & Communications Manager, Jillian, discusses all this and more on our website.