The Triangle Site
Our first permanent site, in the heart of Kings Cross
1000 years, 1000 hands
In Spring 2024 we gained access to our first permanent site. Unlike our other spaces, we have the opportunity to grow a 1,000 year vision.
We are committed to ensuring that the new garden will be co-created by the local community - something we have been championing for almost two decades. Starting with the Skip Garden in Kings Cross in 2009, we have developed expertise in co-designing and co-making our spaces together with local communities. Through this process we aim to instil a sense of ownership and leave a positive long-term legacy.
Through a circular economy model, we will be using the build process as a learning tool, showcasing different ways of building sustainably, with the majority of materials being either natural or re-used, saving materials that would otherwise be construction waste. We are committed to creating the Triangle Site as collaboratively as possible and welcome any interested parties to get involved.
Find out about our plans for building the Triangle Site and what it means for Global Generation and how businesses can get involved.
Find out about our plans for the garden in the Triangle Site and our horticultural approach.
uPDATES FROM THE Triangle Site
We are pleased to announce that we have officially signed our 1000 year lease for our new permanent home in Kings Cross. We are thrilled and have already started work! On site, we run Twilight Building sessions from 5-7pm twice a month for members of the local community and employees working locally to get involved. Welfare facilities are in place and we have already had a whole year of Community Build Days on site!
Young Trainee Programme funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund
We have started our young trainee programme where young people are given paid training in heritage crafts and skills and the use of local natural materials, showcasing a different way of building in the face of the industrialisation of construction. The first cohort completed their cycle in 2024, having training on building cob walls provided by EBUKI and other incredible excursions to partners like H G Matthews. We have now recruited a new cohort of young trainees who are learning about timber framing, green woodworking and more.
learning as we go
Each phase of this build programme also involves one of our Research Fellows - young people who have come through our education programmes who we have trained in Action Research to support our evaluation and creative documentation. We are also working in partnership with an ecologist to measure the environmental impact that creating the garden will have, and a researcher from Tranquil City to support the qualitative and quantitative evaluation of the traineeship programme.
get involved in our build
Our gardens rely on many volunteers and you can get involved in the build as an individual, group or business. Email alice@globalgeneration.org.uk for bespoke bookings or join our community build days
Our Community Build is made possible with The National Lottery Heritage Fund. Thanks to National Lottery players, we have been able to support our build trainee programme and community build of our Triangle Site our permanent home!
Businesses, Get involved!
We are currently looking for partners who can donate time, money, materials or professional services to help with the Triangle Site’s build.
To learn more contact generate@globalgeneration.org.uk or
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Visit the site
The site is not yet open to the public outside of our community build events.
Join a build day
“I can hear the chirping of urban birds over the metallic hum of the overground, heralding the arrival of spring. It feels like a special place, an oasis of hope in a concrete desert. A waste dumping ground, reborn as a garden, a place where plants and children grow together.”
