We donate fresh-cut lavender to organisations working with people who need it. Register below. We also hold events, volunteer days and collaborative projects throughout the year.
Free to registered organisations
We donate fresh-cut lavender during our harvest window (mid June to early July) to organisations that work with people who need it. There's no cost. What we ask in return is your commitment to share the story.
The lavender is yours to use however serves your people best. Organisations have used it to run community workshops, create handmade products to sell or gift, and raise funds for their own causes. What matters to us is that it reaches people who need it and that joy is the outcome.
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Joy is our currency
We measure success in joy, not profit. Every recipient organisation commits to:
You are responsible for only sharing images you have permission to use online. Where anonymity is needed, photos of hands, rooms, lavender arrangements and backs of heads are just as powerful.
Step by step
Tell us who you are, how many people you support and when you can collect. We'll confirm your free allocation.
In return, send a photo or a few words on how the lavender was used. Every story helps us reach further.
Once confirmed, choose a collection slot. Book a slot (coming soon)
If you'd like to support the work, every pound goes straight into the field and the mission. Donate (coming soon)
We'll be in touch before the harvest season. All enquiries answered, though there may be some delay.
Organisations working with children and young people are welcome to apply. We ask that your organisation holds the appropriate safeguarding responsibilities for the young people in your care.
What's On
Organisations can arrange individual events by collaborating with Sussex Lavender. Join the mailing list to hear when activities are announced.
We will have dedicated days for registered care organisations and refugees to collect free trays of loose fresh cut lavender that can then be used to create community events — which can also act as fundraisers for their organisation.
Quarterly events for healing and reviving our relationship to lavender, land and each other. These events bring people together around lavender making and community connection.
Paid immersion day funds go toward building infrastructure for educational small-group wellbeing and therapeutic events at the field.
A hands-on day learning how lavender is distilled into artisan oil at our copper alembic still — arranged for small groups by arrangement.
Learn at the Field
We run experience days at the field for event organisers who want to learn directly. Come and spend time with Hana and our volunteers — learn how to harvest, bundle, dry and work with lavender, so you can take that knowledge back to your organisation and your people.
Places are limited. Get in touch to register your interest.
Measured in hands that have held our flowers.
The community heart of the field
Land to Hand
Each harvest, we work with local care homes, hospices, wellbeing centres, refuges and children's homes. Fresh trays of loose lavender are made available to organisations so their members can take part in therapeutic bundling sessions.
The rhythm of tying lavender is grounding and calm, and the scent carries long after the session ends. The harvest is done by volunteers who brought this project to life in love and support.
How organisations take partLend a Hand
This field grows with many hands. Whatever you can offer — an afternoon or a skill — is welcome.
A pair of hands during harvest week — cutting, gathering and tying bundles in the field. A few hours makes a real difference.
Collecting and delivering free trays to care homes, hospices and children's homes during our charitable collection days.
Capturing the field, the harvest and the bundling sessions — images that help us share the story of Sussex Lavender.
Experience writing community, CIC or wellbeing grant applications would be genuinely invaluable to the field's future.
Natural jute twine, florist ribbon and paper packaging for hand-tying and presenting the bundles.
Flat, rigid trays for transporting loose fresh-cut lavender to collection points and care organisations.
Breathe it in and share the joy
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