Camden GardenCentre

Camden Garden Centre began in 1983, founded by a group of local business people concerned about youth unemployment and structured from the outset as a social enterprise rather than a charity reliant on donations. It first traded on a site between Jeffreys Street and Farrier Street before relocating, after Camden Council reclaimed the land for housing, to its current home in Elm Village off St Pancras Way. Run under the Camden Garden Centre Charitable Trust, renamed in 2012, the business has trained some three hundred people through its employment scheme over four decades and has been named Urban Garden Centre of the Year. Alongside plants, tools and gifts, the site includes the on-site café, Pritchard and Ure. It operates as a single garden centre, with no other branches.