Gloucestershire
Apples sourced locally — from back gardens to forgotten traditional orchards — juiced and bottled with community groups at the centre.
How we work
In fruit we trust
community Juice Good things happen when we make things together What if everyone in Gloucestershire could share in a local fruit culture — and community groups could thrive from it?
Our vision
Juicing together isn’t only about the bottle — it’s about orchards, people, and place.
Community Juice is a Gloucestershire project supporting a diverse range of people to enjoy a local community fruit culture we can all be proud of — from gardens and allotments to traditional orchards.
Your group
Revenue from local sales supports community projects. Groups help with picking, production, labels, events, and orchard days.
Benefits for groupsManifesto
Amazing things happen when local people pick, press, and share together.
Do you believe every community should have access to great local fruit culture and people to enjoy it with?
What we do
- We are collaborating with existing community groups by making delicious juice together.
- Juice is sold locally and the revenue supports community projects.
- Community groups are involved at every stage — from picking and producing to sales, bottle design, and organising community events and orchard days.
We aim to restore a sense of pride and connection to the beauty, richness, and scrum-diddly-umptiousness of Gloucestershire apples and traditional orchards.
With huge thanks to Helen and Dave at Days Cottage for their generosity, dedication, and support — and to the orchard that dreamed this project into being.
How community groups benefit
- Raising revenue for their projects
- Community spirit — bringing people together to take care of what matters
- Advocacy and advertising — through juice distributions and social media
- Help projects reach a wider audience
- Time out in nature together
- Meaningful, healthy activities that are easy for people to engage with
Over time we want to see community groups planting more fruit trees and community orchards to support their local fruit economy.
We work together
- Sourcing apples locally — from gardens to forgotten traditional orchards
- Community picking days — music, food, fire, intergenerational fun
- Juicing and bottling — the hard graft
- Designing labels — supporting local artists and school competitions
- Selling and marketing — co-creating social media to reach wide audiences
- Celebrating the orchards — Apple Day, Blossom Day, wassail
- Orchard care and land work — planting, pruning, wildlife conservation
CJ is stimulating a revival in the Gloucestershire fruit industry with local folk at its core.
Mission
Our commitment to local fruit is part of growing a Gloucestershire where communities eat, celebrate, and care for orchards together — one press at a time.
Believe in community fruit culture? Want to bottle something good with us? Say hello — we’re building this together.
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