Join us at Emma Cons Gardens on 19th & 26th September 2024 for our community days as part of the garden’s ongoing transformation.

We’ve been invited by Emma Cons Gardens Trust and We are Waterloo to host two fun gardening and craft sessions at Emma Cons Garden and we’d love to see you there!

Community Days at Emma Cons Gardens

Community Dig Day

19 September 2024, 10:30am - 4:30pm - Meet some of your neighbours near Waterloo at our Community Dig Day! Help plant a dry garden, perfect for Emma Cons Garden’s low maintenance area. Think Verbena, ornamental grasses and splashes of colour year round!

Community Craft Day

26 September 2024, 11am - 3pm - Join us to water and maintain the garden’s newly planted beds. Then we’ll use the cuttings, plus other foraged materials, to create unique sunprints and greeting cards.

What are sunprints? Well, Sun prints are also known as cyanotypes, a photographic process that uses light-sensitive paper to produce images. It’s perfect for capturing the shape of your favourite leaves, flowers or seed pods.

Info and booking for our FREE sessions

These sessions are free but booking is required. You are welcome to stay for the whole session or just pop in for an hour. To reserve your slot, email mustafa@bost.org.uk and let us know which session you’d like to come to and for how long.

Where is Emma Cons Gardens?

Emma Cons Gardens is a small public open space opposite the Old Vic Theatre in London’’s Waterloo area. Thousands of people walk through this area every day and the space has great potential to be a beautiful, uplifting public garden with room for outdoor activities, arts and culture. To realise this future vision, the Emma Cons Gardens Trust has been set up to work in partnership with Lambeth Council and other stakeholders to transform the space

Who was Emma Cons?

Emma Cons was a Victorian social entrepreneur who established the Royal Victoria Coffee Music Hall (now The Old Vic) and founded Morley College. Emma Cons gave up the life of an artist to dedicate herself to social work to improve housing for working men and women, to provide wholesome and joyous recreation at a low price and to promote education - from https://emmaconsgardens.com/