Volunteer and visit us
Come to our Open Garden, or volunteer with us, 10am – 4pm, every Tuesday, and on the third Saturday every month. Walk in our woodland and enjoy tea and biscuits in the garden. Families welcome. Just drop in.
Tuesday 29 April – Open Garden and Volunteer Gardening – 10am – 4pm
Tuesday 6 May – Open Garden and Volunteer Gardening – 10am – 4pm
Tuesday 13 May – Open Garden and Volunteer Gardening – 10am – 4pm
Saturday 17 May – – Open Garden and Volunteer Gardening – 10am – 4pm
Tuesday 20 May – Open Garden and Volunteer Gardening – 10am – 4pm
Tuesday 27 May – Open Garden and Volunteer Gardening – 10am – 4pm
The garden house is available to book for parties and meetings
New memberships are available for the year ending 31st August 2025
A two-acre oasis of greenery in Islington, north London.
Over time, a herbaceous garden, an orchard, a pond, a small meadow, extensive vegetable terraces and an acre of woodland have all emerged from a railway embankment.
Under an agreement with Islington Council which owns the land, the volunteer-run Charity – Olden Community Garden – maintains the garden area, with the object to promote a community garden for the benefit of people living or working in the London Borough of Islington. Olden Garden gives local people opportunities for education and recreation, with the aim of increasing involvement in the community and reducing isolation.
A self-sustaining garden
We use harvested water, we compost all the green waste and create wildlife habitats from woody debris. We promote biodiversity throughout the garden and woodland.
Latest Posts
Over 140 visitors came to our LOG Open Day
We welcomed over 140 visitors to our London Open Gardens open day in June. Visitors appreciated being given copies of our new map to guide them. Thank you to all the volunteers who helped on the day and provided tea and cake for our visitors to enjoy on our patio in the sun.
As good as new!
Thank you to the volunteers refurbishing our wooden table

Have a Grow Day on Saturday 8 June, 12-3pm
Everyone welcome at our Have a Grow Day, an initiative of Social Farms and Gardens. At Olden Garden, we will offer gardening tasks including sowing next spring’s biennials, deadheading roses, weeding, pruning, tidying, watering.
Children can sow a sunflower seed in a pot to take home.

Tea and cake will be available.
Tidying up our dead hedges
Huge thank you to the volunteers from Macquarie who tidied up 50 metres of dead hedge, hammering in 70 wooden poles and rebuilding the hedge stacks. They also stripped and varnished wooden garden furniture.

With thanks for our grants from

Awarded National Lottery Funding

Developed in 1986 by Patricia
Tawn and supported by Islington Council