Who We Are

What is Bootle Jam Club?

Our home is North Park Community Garden, where each week we meet up  to grow produce, eat together & cook with what we grow. Over the years we've realised how important the simple pleasures of cooking and chatting are for helping people build their relationship with people in their local community but a relationship with food, their own bodies & health and the natural world. Everyone who attends our sessions gets to take home a share of the produce we've harvested as a team. Any surplus produce is made into jams, pickles and chutneys which are then sold with profits reinvested into the work of the garden.

Joining the Bootle jam club is a way for you to support us whilst also enjoying some of our amazing products.  Every four months we will send you 3 seasonal jams, pickles or chutneys using produce grown at North Park Community Garden.  These will be a surprise based on gluts and what has grown well. We strongly believe in eating with the seasons, keeping our carbon emissions and food miles as low as possible.

You will also get an update on what we've been up to in North Park Community Garden, what we have been growing and the fun we have been getting up to! But best of all you get to enjoy our lovely jams, pickles and chutneys whilst knowing you are supporting us to build well-being, helping to create volunteer opportunities and creating a safe space for community to flourish in Bootle.

What we do

Our home is North Park Community Garden where local  people come together to grow food and flowers, drink tea, make friends and chat.  We love growing our own food and eating it and all our sessions include having food together.  We also deliver arts and craft workshops in locations across Merseyside and Cheshire, this gives participants the chance to take time out of life to be creative and generates income to support our work in Bootle.  For those who can't come to the garden growing with gateway teaches how to grow your own food in whatever space you have at home.