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Mansfield District Council
Holds the freehold on Carr Bank and lets it to us at a peppercorn ground rent. Lead contact: Open Spaces team.
Partnerships
A short, local list — mostly Mansfield, mostly small, almost all unpaid.
We work in long-running partnership with a small handful of local organisations. Below are the named partners we currently work with, and how to ask us about a new partnership.
How we think about partnership.
A partnership, for us, is a relationship that has lasted at least three years and that involves at least one named person on each side who will return a phone call. The trust has, over the years, declined a number of partnership offers from larger organisations on the grounds that they would not, in practice, help us let plots better in the parish of Mansfield. The list below is the list of those that have.
The 2026 register.
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Mansfield Building Society
Community Match programme on the standpipe fund. £2,400 matched against open donations in 2024–25.
BP
The Beacon Project
Mansfield foodbank. Weekly deliveries from the Common Plot July to October.
SF
Sherwood Forest Trust
Two-person teaching pair for our annual hedge-laying days, in post since 2021.
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Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust
Bird-ringing visits in spring and autumn. 17 species new to our records since 2022.
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Walkden's of Mansfield
Independent grocer on Stockwell Gate. Donates tools, prizes and the foodbank delivery van.
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St Peter's & St Paul's, Mansfield
The parish church. Provides hall space when ours is unavailable; rings the bell at the Autumn Show.
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Mansfield Gardeners' Society
Co-host of the Autumn Show since 1998. Provides judges, rosettes and the brass band booking.
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Forest Town Primary
Schools & Sowing partner since 2019. Year 4 visit every April.
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Newgate Primary, Mansfield
Schools & Sowing partner since 2021.
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Queen Elizabeth's Academy
Sixth-form Duke of Edinburgh volunteers join the Saturday work parties twice a year.
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Mansfield Rotary Club
Annual Autumn Show sponsor; provides the children's class trophies.
Partnership enquiry
If you would like to work with us, write a short note.
Tell us who you are, why you would like to work with us, and what you would like the partnership to do. The chair will read every enquiry personally and reply within ten working days.