Site · 84 plots
Carr Bank
Our main site, on land let to the trust by Mansfield District Council on a peppercorn ground rent. Open at all hours; tool library and central storage shed on site.
Community impact
A hundred years of plots, foodbank deliveries and Saturday teas in one Nottinghamshire parish.
The trust touches a small slice of Mansfield, deeply rather than widely. This page lays out, in plain numbers and named partners, how that work shows up in the community.
Where the work lands
A parish-shaped impact, not a national one.
We measure ourselves in plots let, kilos delivered, hours given, and metres of hedge laid. The figures below come from our 2024–25 reporting year unless otherwise noted.
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Plots let in the parish
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Produce to the foodbank, 2025
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Volunteer hours given
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Primary-school children hosted
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Hedge re-laid since 2021
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New bird species ringed
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Weekly foodbank deliveries
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Partner primary schools
Places we work in
Two allotment sites, one parish hall, a small handful of local partners.
Our area of benefit is the ancient parish of Mansfield as it stood in 1916. The four named places below cover almost everything we do.
Site · 52 plots
Pelham Street
A smaller, older site behind the old library, in the centre of the parish. Mostly half-plots, popular with first-time tenants who want to walk to their plot.
Office
Westgate Parish Hall
The upper room is our trustees' meeting place and the tenancy office. Hired by the hour, paid for in cash from the running budget.
Delivery point
The Beacon Project · Stockwell Gate
The Mansfield foodbank that takes our Common Plot produce each Friday from July to first frost, on average 34 weeks of the year.
A short register of our partners
Mostly local, mostly small, and almost all of them work for nothing.
MD
Mansfield District Council
Peppercorn ground rent at Carr Bank
MB
Mansfield Building Society
Standpipe fund match-grant 2024
BP
The Beacon Project
Mansfield foodbank, weekly deliveries
SF
Sherwood Forest Trust
Teaching pair for our hedge-laying days
NW
Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust
Bird-ringing surveys, twice yearly
WM
Walkden's of Mansfield
Tool donations & show prizes
SP
St Peter's & St Paul's, Mansfield
Parish church · AGM space when needed
FT
Forest Town Primary
Schools & Sowing partner since 2019
NS
Newgate Primary, Mansfield
Schools & Sowing partner since 2021
MR
Mansfield Rotary Club
Annual Autumn Show sponsor
QE
Queen Elizabeth's Academy
Sixth-form Duke of Edinburgh volunteers
MS
Mansfield Gardeners' Society
Co-host of the annual Autumn Show