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C O M M O N W E A L T H

O R C H A R DH E L P I N G P E O P L E G R OW !

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“The Commonwealth Orchard is a 

simple idea - give people a spade, the

skills and the confidence and we canmake a more fruitful Scotland.

Fruit growing is great fun and easy and

the trees will keep fruiting for years to

come. We hope the children planting 

today will be able to bring their

children and grandchildren back in 50

 years time to enjoy the fruit from their

tree.”

 John Hancox, Director of the

Commonwealth Orchard.

 J O H N H A N C O X ,  T H E C O M M O N W E A L T H O R C H A R D

75 Clouston St, Glasgow, G20 8QWScotland, UK

T: 0778 606 3918E: john@commonwealthorchard.comW: www.commonwealthorchard.com

L I N K I N G T H EC O M M U N I T Y , B U S I N E S S E S ,

 A N D L A N D O W N E R S F O RO U R F R U I T F U L F U T U R E

www.commonwealthorchard.com

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 T H E C O M M O N W E A L T H O R C H A R DG O O D W I T H F R U I T !

It’s all about people! The Commonwealth Orchard is inspired by the 2014 Games coming to

Scotland and builds on the successful track record of the Children’s Orchard. It’s a great way to

create a legacy for the future. The Commonwealth Orchard is being planted across Scotland and

beyond, consisting of lots of small plantings, making a greater whole. Our vision is that children and

families can all grow fruit near to where they live. Businesses, landowners, charities, local authorities,

schools and communities can all help create a fruitful Scotland.

B U S I N E S S B E N E F I T S

Working with businesses, such as Clydesdale Bank and

PriceWaterhouseCoopers, we deliver practical employee

volunteering opportunities, in partnership with groups such

as Scottish Business in the Community. Getting people out of 

the office and planting fruit trees is good fun, creates

employee job satisfaction and helps companies meet their

corporate social responsibility targets.

L O C A L A U T H O R I T Y A N D H E A L T H

B O A R D B E N E F I T S The Commonwealth Orchard delivers considerable

community benefit at low cost. This visionary initiative has

worked with hospitals, and health boards, nurseries, primary

and secondary schools, and special needs schools, with social

work projects, parks and allotments, community action, food

and health initiatives, biodiversity and greenspace teams.

L A N D O W N E R B E N E F I T S Landowners - be they housing associations, property

developers, private estates, businesses with land holdings,

local authorities and utilities - often have underused land

assets. Sometimes they also have unused walled gardens and

even orchards. Allowing orchards to be planted for

community use adds attractive landscape features, with all

the environmental benefits of planting trees.

C O M M O N W E A L T H !

The Commonwealth Orchard We plant fruit

trees, encourage growing and eating of local food,

and provide an interesting way to develop strongercommunities. We link with businesses, landowners,

developers, local authorities and the community to

deliver local fruit for people. We also depend on

individual volunteers and supporters to help things

to happen.

  A F R U I T F U L C O N C E P T

The word “Commonwealth” is an interesting one.

While it’s now thought of as part of the

Commonwealth and Empire, it has much older roots

to do with ideas of Common Good and

Commonweal - looking after the welfare of thewhole community. It’s a very democratic concept,

and is about self-reliant and resilient communities

working to improve the lives of their own people.

G O O D W O R K

We are proud to be part of the social enterprise

movement engaging with business, communities,

government and the third sector to add to our

Commonwealth, health and happiness

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C H A R I T I E S , U N I V E R S I T I E S A N D

C O M M U N I T Y G R O U P SThe Commonwealth Orchard is a flexible way of linking up

many existing groups. We work with a range of health,

homeless, environmental and children’s charities and NGO’s.

Planting fruit trees and picking and using the fruit is a great

way to bring people together and build self esteem and

respect - and of course it tastes good!

C O M M U N I T Y B E N E F I T S  Our experience is that community food growing helps the

community grow. A shared space - common ground - where

arts, concerts and social events can happen - is a great way

to get people together. We have pioneered the idea of 

friendship planting - bringing people from different culturalbackgrounds to plant and grow together.

B E N E F I T S T O C H I L D R E N

Our vision is that all children across Scotland will grow up

seeing the fruit trees they planted, blossoming and bearing

fruit near to where they live. By picking and eating the fruit

they discover that what you grow and harvest yourself 

always tastes better. We want children to eat healthily andgrowing food is a great way to do that. It’s great fun, too!