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Propagating Green Therapies in the UK – Joining the Dots

Monday at Tuppenny Barn – a very special day of connection and learning, both in person and online. Extraordinary speakers and wonderful delegates. All together helping each other navigate the pathway towards the universal provision of Nature-based Therapies. Within this wonderful healing and growing space; a day suffused with the Tuppenny ethos of sustainability, humility,Continue reading “Propagating Green Therapies in the UK – Joining the Dots”

SAVE THE DATE!

Propagating Green Therapies in the UK – Joining the Dots A one-day conference on making green therapies available to all To be held at Tuppenny Barn, near Chichester PO10 8EZ Monday 9th October 2023 9.30am – 5 pm A joint venture from Gardening4Health, Garden Masterclass, and Tuppenny Barn Booking details and Programme to follow

Garden Masterclass

I’m delighted to have been asked to join Annie Guilfoyle and Noel Kingsbury for their Thursday evening chat this evening – 6pm https://www.gardenmasterclass.org/diary “This week we talk to Richard Claxton a General (medical) Practitioner who does social prescribing and campaigns for gardening as therapy.  He has created an NHS Garden Therapy project in Tonbridge andContinue reading “Garden Masterclass”

Tuppenny Barn

The very model of a modern Therapy Garden Tuppenny barn, in Southbourne – near Chichester, is deeply rooted in education, organic horticulture and sustainability. In the last four years it has branched in a big way into therapeutic horticulture. Groups visit to work with Social and Horticultural Therapists, connecting with nature in a safe andContinue reading “Tuppenny Barn”

A Therapy Garden for Tonbridge

Indulge me for a moment – this is a big moment for me! I’m now happy to announce that this week we are taking our first “Gardeners” onto a programme for Gardening Therapy in our new NHS Project in Tonbridge. Green therapies on the NHS as a core part of Community Primary care. Hoping toContinue reading “A Therapy Garden for Tonbridge”

Save The Therapy Garden

This plea for help came yesterday from The Therapy Garden, in Normandy, near Guildford. Please do what you can to help. “We are facing an unprecedented funding crisis which is putting the future of The Therapy Garden in jeopardy We receive no statutory funding and rely on the generosity of others for over half ourContinue reading “Save The Therapy Garden”

Therapeutic Gardening

Journalist Leah Clarkson wrote this piece for Perspective; the Brewin Dolphin investment magazine, and I was delighted to be interviewed for it. The momentum is gathering…. https://online.fliphtml5.com/avbq/eszi/#p=25

Gardening4Health – a GP’s Perspective

I’m really please to be asked to do a talk for the London Gardens Trust as part of the Chelsea Fringe on 25th May. The talk will be focussing on my experience as a gardener, a garden designer in healing gardens, the science behind Green therapies, and the development of therapeutic horticulture in the UK;Continue reading “Gardening4Health – a GP’s Perspective”