Our Purpose

We are The Green Estate Community Interest Company, one of the largest social enterprises in South Yorkshire.

Our mission is to grow green and resilient urban places where people and nature can thrive.

We were originally set up in 2003 as a heritage and environmental regeneration project in the Manor area of Sheffield. The Green Estate team of staff, volunteers and our many partners (including Manor and Castle Development Trust, Sheffield City Council and the University of Sheffield) have turned 42 hectares of derelict land and heritage buildings into a unique, beautiful, and sustainable landscape for people and nature to enjoy today and for generations to come.

We are now a multiple award winning team and place and have become a beacon for place-based urban resilience with an social, economic and environmental impact on our local community and beyond.

Visit and Enjoy The Green Estate in Sheffield

When you visit today, you can enjoy the Green Flag Award winning Manor Fields Park with naturalistic designs and exemplar sustainable drainage systems.

You can experience our heritage visitor centre with the Scheduled Ancient Monument Sheffield Manor Lodge where Mary Queen of Scot was once imprisoned.

You can get married or host celebrations and corporate events in the beautiful Manor Oaks venue, enjoy the culinary delights of The Rhubarb Shed Cafe and visit our pre-loved bookshop. We also host heritage, resilience and landscaping education, training workshops, masterclasses and showcase events.

You can drop off green waste and we recycle it into peat free compost and specialist substrates soils which we sell locally and for big projects across the UK.

We also offer a range of support and a home for a collective of community enterprises who grow food and cut flowers, sew Tudor costumes, make furniture, jewellery, support young people to flourish and more.

Meadows and Resilience Landscaping Across the UK and Beyond

Through transforming our own place and working closely with Sheffield University and other landscaping industry partners, The Green Estate team have become nationally acclaimed experts in nature-based solutions and sustainable urban landscaping.

Working with the University of Sheffield and horticultural ecologists like Professor Nigel Dunnett and Professor James Hitchmough, we have developed a biodiverse and resilient urban Pictorial Meadow seed mixes and turf which are sold and displayed across the UK and into EU and beyond.

We have a talented team of landscape managers, architects and horticulturalists who provide consultancy advice and installation and maintenance services around resilience landscaping and planting schemes and Pictorial Meadows including Grey to Green in Sheffield and the Tower of London Moat Superbloom.

Our services and products are designed to bring joy and nourishment to people, pollinators and the planet!

The King’s Award for Enterprise in Sustainable Development

We were one of the first 15 businesses to receive the prestigious Kings Award for Enterprise in Sustainable Development approved personally by the King.