Community Gardens, Cyrenians

The garden offers hospital patients, staff, and visitors, as well as people and groups from the local community, the chance to take part in a range of activities. These include gardening, landscaping, producing food to share, increasing the bio-diversity of the garden, therapeutic learning programmes and social events. We are a garden that grows food, builds a sense of community, and supports people to improve their health and wellbeing.

The gardens are open every day to members of the public with volunteer and groupwork activities taking place on weekdays.

We work in partnership with the Royal Edinburgh Hospital and accept referrals from agencies including local GPs & Occupational Therapists, ensuring that people suffering from poor mental health will benefit from the gardens. We also work with Volunteer Edinburgh and the local community to encourage volunteers to come and join us.

Community Gardens Programme

Volunteering sessions run on a Tuesday and Wednesday.

Patient Engagement sessions run on a Thursday and Friday.

Together Outdoors (green prescribing sessions) run on a Monday and Wednesday.

Get in touch

We welcome enquiries from anyone interested in using the Community Gardens.

Everyone is welcome so if you’d like to find out more, or get in touch with us about working together, you can contact us by emailing

Royal Edinburgh Community Hospital Garden

RECG@cyrenians.scot