The Small Quarter is our home, next door to the Ravensbury on Mitcham Common. It's where we build our sets, dream up creative projects, and balance everything we do with sustainability and ecology.

The Small Quarter

Our dream is a permanent eco-friendly building for carpentry and making, learning and volunteering - that the whole community can share. There will be messy play for kids, an outdoor activity space for workshops, events... and your ideas.

We run building projects from our workshop, harvest rainwater and host local artists and sculptors. We grow fresh local food for our neighbours the New Horizons Foodbank, and for volunteers to take home. We have five beehives of bees busy pollinating the garden and flowering plants on Mitcham Common, and get delicious honey we sell to support our work.

We run workshops to share beekeeping and food growing skills, and love it when other local groups see a way they can use The Small Quarter: Mencap come and garden on a Saturday, and a local parent is hoping to start a forest school for homeschooled children in the new year.

Community carpentry and growing vegetables.

Next we want to:

  • Install solar panels to lower our running costs and our reliance on fossil fuels

  • Build a wooden shelter to host community groups and run workshops

  • Work with a landscape designer to make the most of the land before we lay permanent wheel-chair friendly paths

  • Make our new compost toilet wheelchair accessible with grab bars and a ramp

Can you help? We’re looking for people with skills and experience to lend, to get us to the next stage.

Map of the Small Quarter
Come and join us at the small Quarter. Plan for the new growing season and meet people in your community.
With Christmas Eve, comes Christmas cheer and we are so excited to share Mitcham Community Growers with you. Want to get involved? Read on 👇 We are a group of volunteers growing food to take home, and to share with the New Horizons foodbank, and g
Food growing at The Small Quarter is changing! How? Read on! 👇 We’ve been growing food at The Small Quarter for a few years now, and Gary and his granddad Dan have been growing food here longer than that (seen Dan’s beans forest? Gary&r
Feeling festive 🎄 We’ve got some news headed your way tomorrow… See you back here then! 👋
There’s joy to be found in every season, but there is something wonderful at looking back at The Small Quarter in spring. We have some updates coming to the garden and volunteers we’ll be sharing next week if you are interested in joinin
Happy Monday folks 🌱 We’ve got some exciting news coming your way… stay tuned 👀
We loved sharing The Small Quarter & our work @canons_mitcham a few weekends back at the Autumn Art Fair. It’s chillier now, but you can still listen to our ‘Song for Mitcham’ which we debuted at the event. Click the link in o
If Grandad Dan tells you to have a listen to our ‘Song for Mitcham’, you have to listen to our ‘Song for Mitcham’. Click the link in our bio to hear our specially composed song for the place we love and call home ❤️ What are
Friends in The Small Quarter garden 🦋 Join us in the garden on Wednesdays from 10-12
Out of the grey, comes beauty! Happy Friday folks. We hope you had a wonderful week! Looking to brighten your morning? Look no further than our ‘Somg for Mitcham’, specially composed and recorded with Mitcham in mind (and heart)! Foll
LISTEN UP 🎶 Our ‘Song for Mitcham’ is out now and you can treat your ears to this tune by clicking the link in our bio 🔗 The art exhibition is ongoing and free @canons_mitcham so get down there, have a listen to our song, and enjoy!