Fortune Works Gardens

For well over a decade, Fortune Gardens has grown from small beginnings to one of the most important areas of our work.  Every one of our service users who expresses an interest can play some kind of a role in our gardening work, and we all get a real kick from seeing our hard work come to fruition.  Fortune Gardens focuses on the following areas: 

• Maintaining Community Spaces

• On-site Nursery

• On-site Garden Centre Shop

• Private Gardening Work

• ‘Growing to Respect’ Initiative

• Growing Together Initiative

• Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society Caley Awards 

Community Gardening Work and the Growing Together Initiative

With the support of funding from Glasgow Community Planning Partnership, we maintain a number of community garden spaces in north-west Glasgow.  Not only does this make a valuable contribution to the environment in the area, it also gives our service users the opportunity to make new community connections through their hard work.  We have our own specialist mobile gardening vehicle, kindly funded by The Wolfson Foundation, and a garden hub in a local business park. 

Our Growing together Initiative has been hugely successful in empowering people with learning disabilities to actively engage in their local communities. Through therapeutic horticulture participants have gained new skills, confidence and a sense of belonging. Notably it is one of the only initiatives of its kind in the northwest of the city

One of the projects our Growing Together Initiative has been working on over the past three years is the successful development of the Growchapel Community Allotments. Through this an area of waste ground has been transformed into thriving community of growing spaces all of which are operated by local people.

In 2024 the project was featured on BBC Scotland’s Beechgrove Garden Programme, which focused on how horticulture and food growing could contribute to the wellbeing of people with learning disabilities and the wider community.

On site nursery, garden centre and private gardening work

We’re very proud of our on-site Garden Centre, through which we grow and sell a wide range of plants, flowers, shrubs, small trees, and vegetables.  We sell all of these through the Garden Centre, and also eat our home-grown vegetables in The Works Diner!  The Shop also sells our range of Fortune Products, which are especially popular around Christmas time.  If you are in the area, please drop in and see us – we’re open to the public during normal opening hours (Monday – Friday, 9am – 4pm).

Through our mobile gardening service, we are also usually able to carry out private gardening work, in people's own gardens or in commercial spaces.  This is carried out to the same high standard as our community work, and our service users take a real pride in what they do.  Contact us for more details.

For further information on our Fortune Gardens including the Growing to Respect Initiative and Royal Caledonian Society Horticultural Awards, please visit….