Somerset organisations and contacts
Find food, growing, environmental and community organisations across Somerset, alongside national networks and useful project maps.
Use this directory to find local contacts, get involved or discover support for a community project. Please contact us if you would like to add or update a listing.
Use this directory to find local contacts, get involved or discover support for a community project. Please contact us if you would like to add or update a listing.
-
CAG Somerset (Community Action Groups), provides free support to a thriving network of local groups whose focus is repair, waste reduction, food surplus, sharing and composting
Growing Commons, supporting collective food growing and land stewardship, they run quarterly land-based meetings.
Mind in Somerset, a mental heath charity with opportunities for people to get growing in Shepton Mallet and Yeovil, volunteers are welcome.
Reimagining the Levels, Somerset people taking practical action to shape landscapes and communities to become healthy, productive and resilient - including support for native tree planting.
Somerset Climate Action Network. Add your community climate project to their map and submit stories to the Somerset Environmental and Ecological Newsletter / SEEN.
Somerset Wildlife Trust protect wildlife and wild places through a range of projects e.g. nature recovery, reporting, strategy and action.
Spark Somerset provide information, advice, training and support to the voluntary and community sector in Somerset.
Thrive (formally CCS) are a charity that supports communities in Somerset to thrive, including individuals and families in need, and displaced communities.
-
Health Connections Mendip, GP practice, social prescribing and health coaching team, collate green prescribing lists.
Sustainable Wells organises and supports local initiatives, with a focus on protecting and improving local environments and reducing carbon footprints.
Sustainable Frome, a transition town initiative meeting the challenges of climate change with community-led responses.
-
Green Wedmore plan and run initiatives for sustainable living in Wedmore and the surrounding villages.
-
The Balsam Centre, Wincanton, supports community health and wellbeing through a range of activities including how to grow food and learn gardening skills. They welcome volunteers.
Elderflowers Food Cooperative, Langport, buy local produce every Friday 5-7pm at Eli's.
Tinkers Bubble, Norton sub Hamdon, woodland community using environmentally sound methods of working the land without fossil fuels. Their pastures, orchards, and no-dig gardens are organically certified. Local volunteers welcome with notice.
Project Food (Axminster but reaching into South Somerset), teach cooking skills as well as providing some food support.
-
Ethical Food Collective, community food coop in Taunton, running the Lesser Litter refill shop and running 'The Commons' - community rooms/space to rent for meetings and work etc.
Transition Town Wellington Sustainable Food Group have mixed community orchards, herb beds and fruit bush sites, plus they have an updated list of Allotments in Taunton.
Wiveliscombe, has a cluster of community food projects including Wivey Grows and the Wivey Kitchen
-
CAG Somerset (Community Action Groups), provides free support to a thriving network of local groups whose focus is repair, waste reduction, food surplus, sharing and composting
Growing Commons, supporting collective food growing and land stewardship, they run quarterly land-based meetings.
Mind in Somerset, a mental heath charity with opportunities for people to get growing in Shepton Mallet and Yeovil, volunteers are welcome.
Reimagining the Levels, Somerset people taking practical action to shape landscapes and communities to become healthy, productive and resilient - including support for native tree planting.
Somerset Climate Action Network. Add your community climate project to their map and submit stories to the Somerset Environmental and Ecological Newsletter / SEEN.
Somerset Wildlife Trust protect wildlife and wild places through a range of projects e.g. nature recovery, reporting, strategy and action.
Spark Somerset provide information, advice, training and support to the voluntary and community sector in Somerset.
Thrive (formally CCS) are a charity that supports communities in Somerset to thrive, including individuals and families in need, and displaced communities.
Somerset food project maps:
Find Somerset growing projects on our map
Wider Somerset food resilience projects are mapped by Citizens Advice Somerset here, e.g. community food banks, pantries and fridges.
National organisations
Last checked: September 2026
The links and information on this page were checked in September 2026. Organisations, services and contact details can change, so please check directly with an organisation before visiting, joining or referring someone.