St Mary's Secret Garden

Name

St Mary's Secret Garden

Website

https://stmaryssecretgarden.org.uk

Company type

Private

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

St Mary's Secret Garden is a London-based community garden offering horticultural therapies, gardening classes, events, and gardening services to local community members through its physical garden site.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Community Horticulture Services

NAICS

Landscaping Services (561730), Soil Preparation, Planting, and Cultivating (115112), Zoos and Botanical Gardens (712130)

SIC

Agricultural Services (700), Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Garden Bed Installation & Planting (Annuals, Perennials, Shrubs) (HSAIAFAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Horticulture, Nursery & Greenhouse Operations (EDAOAOAB), Seasonal Color, Planting & Horticultural Services (BPABADAL)

Keywords

• Community garden services
• Horticultural therapy
• Gardening education classes
• Therapeutic horticulture programs
• Community green space

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Core offering

St Mary's Secret Garden operates a community garden in London that delivers horticultural therapies to participants, runs gardening classes for learners, hosts garden-based events, and provides gardening services. The organization functions as a for-profit private entity employing 11-50 staff, combining therapeutic, educational, and event-based offerings centered on its physical garden site in the United Kingdom.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Horticultural Therapy Therapy sessions using gardening activities delivered at the St Mary's Secret Garden site, intended for individuals who can benefit from therapeutic horticulture interventions.
• Gardening Classes Educational classes in gardening delivered by St Mary's Secret Garden for community members and learners seeking hands-on horticulture instruction.
• Garden Events Events hosted at the St Mary's Secret Garden site for community members and visitors, providing engagement activities in the garden environment.
• Gardening Services Practical gardening services provided by St Mary's Secret Garden to maintain the garden and support participants' involvement with the green space.

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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Direct peers

• Garden Organic: UK-based organic gardening charity running education programmes, masterclasses, and community growing initiatives. Comparable mission-driven community garden education focus.
• Capital Growth (London Food Link): London-focused network supporting community food-growing gardens, with educational and community engagement activities. Direct overlap on the London community garden model.
• Thrive: UK charity specialising in social and therapeutic horticulture, offering gardening-based therapy and training. Direct overlap with St Mary's Secret Garden's horticultural therapy and gardening class offering.

Broad incumbents

• Royal Horticultural Society (RHS): UK gardening charity running extensive horticultural education, shows, and community programmes. A broad incumbent in the same garden-education space.
• The Eden Project: Large-scale UK botanical attraction offering educational programmes, events, and horticultural experiences. Operates at far greater scale but overlaps on the community-facing garden and education model.
• Kew Gardens (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew): London-based public garden offering horticultural education, therapy-adjacent wellbeing programmes, and events. Geographic and category overlap with St Mary's Secret Garden.
• The Conservation Volunteers (Green Gym): UK-wide environmental charity running practical community gardening and wellbeing sessions. Overlaps on community gardening and wellbeing/therapy angle, though at much broader geographic scale.

Regional players

• Cordwainers Grow: London-based community garden providing growing space, training, and volunteer programmes. A direct regional community garden peer.
• Octavia Housing Community Gardens: London community-based gardens offering gardening activities, training, and therapeutic opportunities — directly comparable London community garden operations.

Emerging players

• Bethlem Royal Hospital Occupational Therapy Garden: UK mental health institution-based horticultural therapy programme. Comparable in the therapy-via-gardening niche, though institutionally embedded rather than standalone.

Market position

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/StMarysGarden

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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