Our green spaces

The aim of our project is to create beautiful and inspiring green spaces for all the community to enjoy and benefit in terms of health and wellbeing. St Luke’s Community Centre is located in central London, where gardening and food growing need to come to terms with the lack of space and other challenges. We are here to show you how to overcome these problems and achieve amazing results.

St Luke’s Gardens have been awarded the first prize as ‘Best Community Centre Garden’ in occasion of Islington in Bloom 2017 and in 2018 as well. We also won the Gold medal in London in Bloom – Our Community 2018, and 'Outstanding’ category for London in Bloom – It’s Your Neighbourhood 2018. Come and have a look.

Since the project has started in 2016, we have created three amazing community gardens at St Luke’s; and this is just the beginning.

St Luke’s Edible Yard

Resulting from the transformation of St Luke’s car park in 2017 - The Edible Yard is a community food growing space at the back of our community centre. It features ten big raised beds with more than a hundred edible plants; two greenhouses, sheds, several composting methods, a wormery, a wildlife patch, a pizza oven and a flock of five happy and chatty hens. Yes, all on a paved car park.

St Luke’s Terrace

Refurbished in 2015 and 2017 - St Luke’s Terrace is home to a wonderful potted plant display that changes every season. Ornamental flowering plants, shrubs, climbers and even a fig tree provide a colourful and scented background for people sitting outside or having a snack on the Central Street Café tables.

St Luke’s Courtyard Woodland

A little shady strip of land that has become a perfect habitat for bugs and birds, to enhance the biodiversity of our urban community centre even in the most difficult place.

St Luke’ Community Gardens are open to public during the Community Centre opening time. If you would like to visit the gardens or ask for any information, please do not hesitate to contact Poppy at [email protected].

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Youth and Children

There is plenty going on throughout the week at St Luke's for children and youths. Most activities are free of charge for members.
Family after-school gardening

Every Wednesday we meet in the Edible Yard at St Luke's (at the back of the Centre) from 4pm - 5pm to take part in family gardening. It is an after-school session with one of our expert gardeners, and if the weather is cold the group go into our heated greenhouse.
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Christmas fun at Central Street Cookery School

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Room hire

Our modern Community Centre offers a range of flexible events spaces large and small, perfect for meetings, conferences, parties or events for grown-ups and kids alike, from two to 160 people. We take pride in keeping the Centre well-decorated and clean. We're located just off Old Street, EC1, close to the City of London and three tube stations - Old Street, Barbican and Angel.
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About the centre

We own a large Community Centre on the edge of the City of London, a diverse area containing extremes of wealth and poverty. Our modern Community Centre provides a space for local people to gather and socialise, and for us and other organisations to deliver services and activities for the local community at little or no cost.
Garden Room

With its own private entrance and exclusive use of a terrace garden, this spacious and flexible room offers the perfect setting for conferences, seminars, training events and parties. It is a blank canvas to create the right setting and configuration for your event, and benefits from neutral, stylish décor and lots of natural light.
The Loft

The Loft occupies the whole third floor of the Community Centre, and has exclusive use of an entrance (ante) room, kitchen area and toilet, within this spacious and versatile area. It is bright and airy, and ideal for meetings, conferences, training, seminars or less formal events. Its exposed Victorian steel beams and skylight windows offer wonderful views over the roof tops of London.
What we do and who we help

We own a large Community Centre on the edge of the City of London, a diverse area containing extremes of wealth and poverty. Our modern Community Centre provides a space for local people to gather and socialise, and for us and other organisations to deliver services and activities to the local community at low or no cost to them. We also work outside in the community supporting other groups and running community events.
Studio

The Studio is a bright and exciting space for any occasion. Truly unique, this spacious room with its high ceilings and distinctive red walls will provide a striking backdrop to your conference or party. It includes a wall of mirrors with a professional barre for dance classes.
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About the Cookery School

Our stylish, contemporary Cookery School in central London opened in 2012 as a self-funding facility to enable St Luke’s to deliver free or low-cost cookery classes and projects to benefit our community, which are funded by the private hire of the School.