Gardening Club at Mary Ann Evans Hospice
Over the past few months we have been running a ‘Gardening Club’ at Mary Ann Evans Hospice in Nuneaton to help plant and maintain gardens, provide a support group for those in the local community to improve wellbeing and create new habitats to boost biodiversity and support more wildlife.
The Gardening Club project has been running every third Tuesday to support local people who have experienced bereavement.
The horticultural therapy sessions have so far included the creation of miniature gardens, bulb planting, sowing seeds, growing veg, watering, weeding and making living walls.
The project has also engaged the wider community with the involvement of volunteers at IAR (Inspiring Addiction Recovery) and another successful partnership programme with Bam Construct UK, who’s Prince’s Trust volunteers created 10 new square planter frames for the hospice to support decorative alpine beds.
It’s been great to facilitate a project that has brought so many people together to socialise, develop new skills and create such a positive impact at the hospice.
This project was made possible thanks to funding from Warwickshire County Council Green Shoots Grant and the Heart of England Community Foundation’s Dulverton Trust Fund.
Project Feedback
“The sessions are great - laid back and pleasant. It's a lovely way to spend an afternoon with nice friendly people”
“There's a great range of activities, I really liked the miniature gardens and the grid gardens - and it's sociable - good to be working together”
“I find it very therapeutic, the garden is stunning and I am really enjoying these sessions”
