Gamrie Gardens Becomes an Official Community Interest Company (CIC)
We’re very happy to share that Gamrie Gardens is now officially a Community Interest Company (CIC).
While this may sound like a small administrative update from the outside, it feels like a meaningful milestone for us and for the future of the project.
Over the past few years, Gamrie Gardens has grown from an idea into a living, evolving community space. What started as a desire to grow food, support biodiversity, and create something positive for our local area has slowly become a network of allotments, wildlife habitats, growing spaces, volunteer projects, workshops, an honesty shop, rescue animals, and countless conversations shared over cups of tea in the garden.
Becoming a CIC helps give that work a stronger foundation.
A Community Interest Company is a type of organisation designed to benefit the community. It allows us to continue developing Gamrie Gardens with community benefit at its core, while ensuring that any future surplus is reinvested back into the project and its aims.
For us, this is not about becoming bigger for the sake of it. It is about creating more opportunities.
Opportunities to improve accessibility.
Opportunities to expand food-growing projects.
Opportunities to create more workshops, events, and skill-sharing experiences.
Opportunities to develop wildlife habitats, improve infrastructure, and make the gardens more resilient for the future.
Most importantly, it helps us continue building a place where people can reconnect with food, nature, practical skills, and each other.
We are incredibly grateful to everyone who has supported Gamrie Gardens so far. Whether you've rented an allotment, volunteered your time, visited the honesty shop, donated, shared our posts, attended an event, or simply encouraged us along the way, you've helped make this possible.
There is still a great deal we want to create here.
This feels less like an end point and more like the beginning of a new chapter.
Thank you for growing with us.
