Gardening 4 Health – Therapeutic Horticulture in the UK

Gardening4Health

What is Gardening4Health?

Gardening4Health is working to ensure that therapeutic horticulture is available to all. We believe that gardening is a powerful tool for preventative healthcare and a proven treatment for a wide range of mental and physical health challenges.

When we garden for health, the benefits grow beyond the individual:

– For People: Vital support for mental and physical recovery.

– For Communities: Building stronger, more connected neighborhoods.

– For the Planet: Creating a greener, more sustainable environment.

How we help:

Support: We bring garden charities together through networking, events, and sharing the best ways to grow.

Equip: our comprehensive toolkit provides the resources and templates needed to help new projects flourish.

Connect: Our Gardening4Health Directory is a nationwide map that helps people find their local therapeutic garden in seconds.

Our Vision

Our goal is to help make Therapeutic Horticulture as widely available as possible in the UK.

Our Journey

Starting out as a simple map on a website, we now provide support, education, networking and lobbying opportunities nationwide.

Our People

Meet our fantastic Patrons, and brilliant Trustees.

Over

500

Gardens

The Directory

The Gardening4Health Directory is, we hope, an accurate reflection of all the Therapeutic Horticulture providers across England, Wales and Northern Ireland. This includes charities, ad other non-statutory bodies, NHS gardens, Private providers and individual Therapists.

Look here if you want to find out about a project – where it is, what it does: could it help you or your clients/patients? Or equally could you give it your help?

Donate

Donations of any size are extremely welcome and highly valued. They will be put to good use allowing us to make Therapeutic Horticulture as widely available and as well promoted as possible.

With many thanks

Donate

The Toolkit

A collection of some of the knowledge and wisdom out there in the world of Social and Therapeutic Horticulture (STH) – aiming to help groups and individuals with the varied issues and challenges that they may need to address in establishing and running a STH garden.