Bring your team together. Spend time outdoors. Make a difference.
Looking for a team day that feels genuinely worthwhile?
Bring your colleagues to The Garden Gate Project in Margate for time away from desks, meetings and screens – working together outdoors, connecting with nature and supporting a local community project.
Set within our beautiful 1.5-acre walled garden, our corporate days range from hands-on employee volunteering to relaxed half-day wellbeing experiences.
A team day with a difference
The Garden Gate Project is a community garden supporting adults with learning disabilities and mental health challenges, who we call our co-workers.
The garden provides a welcoming place for people to spend time outdoors, develop skills, build confidence, connect with others and take part in meaningful activity.
Corporate visits bring new people into our community and give our co-workers opportunities to meet, work alongside and share the garden with people they might not otherwise encounter. These everyday interactions can help break down barriers around learning disability and mental health and build greater understanding.
For volunteering groups, there's another very practical benefit: you help us get work done. Your team can make a tangible contribution to maintaining and developing the garden while spending purposeful time together away from the workplace.
Choose your team day
Full-Day Employee Volunteering
5 HOURS
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Roll up your sleeves and spend the day helping with a practical project in the garden.
Activities vary with the seasons and what the garden needs. Your team might prepare growing areas, plant, clear or rejuvenate beds, improve spaces used by our co-workers and visitors, or help us prepare for a community event.
We'll welcome your group with an introduction and tour before getting started. Tasks are planned in advance, with equipment, clear instructions and support from our team throughout the day.
No gardening experience is needed – just a willingness to get involved.
Bring Your Own Lunch
A simple option focused on practical volunteering. Bring a packed lunch and enjoy your break together in the garden.
Garden Pizza Lunch
Combine your volunteering with a shared lunch, making pizzas together and enjoying them in the garden.
Half-Day Team
Wellbeing Experience
2.5 HOURS
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A gentler alternative for teams looking for time to slow down and reconnect.
Spend a relaxed few hours together in the garden, with seasonal activities that encourage people to switch off from work and enjoy being outdoors.
Previous groups have made pizzas together, explored the garden and picked seasonal flowers to take home.
This option works particularly well for teams in busy, demanding or people-facing roles who would benefit from some restorative time together.
Your visit makes a difference
Income from corporate days goes directly towards supporting the work of The Garden Gate Project.
Your visit also creates opportunities for our co-workers to be involved – working alongside teams, helping with activities, sharing their knowledge or showing visitors around the garden.
And on volunteering days, your contribution is visible. Teams leave knowing that they've completed practical work that helps us maintain and improve the garden for the people who use it.